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Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Douwe Draaisma; Arnold Pomerans (Translator); Erica Pomerans (Translator)
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Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow older time seems to condense, speed up, elude us, while in old age significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday? In this enchanting and thoughtful book, Douwe Draaisma, author of the internationally acclaimed Metaphors of Memory, explores the nature of autobiographical memory. Applying a unique blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation he tackles such extraordinary phenomena as d ©j U-vu, near-death experiences, the memory feats of idiot-savants and the effects of extreme trauma on memory recall. Raising almost as many questions as it answers, this fascinating book will not fail to touch you at the same time as it educates and entertains.
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Our memory has a will of its own.
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- Title Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past
- Author Douwe Draaisma; Arnold Pomerans (Translator); Erica Pomerans (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 277
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, ^^ in Stock: we Ship at Once fr. IL USA;
- Date September 18, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780521691994 / 0521691990
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.08 x 0.65 in (22.76 x 15.44 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Memory, Autobiographical memory
- Dewey Decimal Code 153.13
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