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The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound, Aleksandr R. Luria
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- “some sticker residue on back”
- Unit Type
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- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Personalized
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- Beginner, Intermediate
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- Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674546253
ISBN-13
9780674546257
eBay Product ID (ePID)
971869
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Man with a Shattered World : the History of a Brain Wound
Subject
Neurology, General, Psychiatry / General
Publication Year
1987
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
7.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
86-031866
Dewey Edition
19
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These two books are compassionate and vivid portraits--he called the 'neurological novels'--though they are in fact case histories of two patients whom Luria observed for 30 years., Originally published almost two decades ago, these fascinating and enormously informative case histories are now classics, each the product of almost 30 years of research by the late Soviet neuropsychologist Aleksandr Romanovich Luria... The Man with a Shattered World describes the heroic struggle of a young soldier trying to recover the memory and other mental capacities lost when a bullet entered his brain. Although different facets of mind are discussed in each [ The Mind of a Mnemonist and The Man with a Shattered World ] in a sense the two books are complementary, as memory is exaggerated in one and impaired in the other. What we know about the brain and mind is greatly enriched by either book., The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist 'e¦ Writing is Zasetsky's laborious way of thinking. His achievement is that he has managed, after untold agonies and frustrations, to describe his unending confusions with terrible clarity. It would take a lobotomized Samuel Beckett to match it., [In The Mind of a Mnemonist ] The Soviet psychologist Aleksandr R. Luria (1902-77) describes the life and personality of a man (known as 'S') who was found to have a literally limitless memory and whose burden was that he was able to forget things only by an act of will... The same publisher reissued The Man with a Shattered World , Luria's study of a young soldier who suffers a catastrophic head injury and has to relearn almost everything. In 1973 one reviewer called it an intriguing and 'valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain.' Both are translated by Lynn Solotaroff., The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist...Writing is Zasetsky's laborious way of thinking. His achievement is that he has managed, after untold agonies and frustrations, to describe his unending confusions with terrible clarity. It would take a lobotomized Samuel Beckett to match it., A noted Russian neuropsychologist shares the remarkable story of his 25-year treatment of a young soldier who, in the aftermath of a serious wound, was forced to relearn even the simplest mental activities'e¦ The book emerges as an intriguing glimpse into the workings of the human brain'e"and an eloquent testament to one man's determination'e¦ Another of Luria's case histories, The Mind of a Mnemonist 'e¦traces the Kafkaesque experiences of a man with such an extraordinary memory that he has difficulty forgetting anything., These two books [ The Man with a Shattered World and The Mind of a Mnemonist ] are compassionate and vivid portraits'e"he called them 'neurological novels''e"though they are in fact case histories of two patients whom Luria observed for 30 years., The Soviet psychologist Aleksandr R. Luria (1902-77) describes the life and personality of a man (known as 'S') who was found to have a literally limitless memory and whose burden was that he was able to forget things only by an act of will...The same publisher reissued The Man with the Shattered World , Luria's study of a young soldier who suffers a catastrophic head injury and has to relearn almost everything. In 1973 one reviewer called it an intriguing and 'valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain.' Both are translated by Lynn Solotaroff., A noted Russian neuropsychologist shares the remarkable story of his 25-year treatment of a young soldier who, in the aftermath of a serious wound, was forced to relearn even the simplest mental activities...The book emerges as an intriguing glimpse into the workings of the human brain--and an eloquent testament to one man's determination...Another of Luria's case histories, The Mind of a Mnemonist...traces the kafkaesque experiences of a man with such an extraordinary memory that he has difficulty forgetting anything., This is an important and remarkable book--the product of the relationship between two remarkable men, one a world authority on the brain, the other his unfortunate brain-damaged patient...Luria has created a fascinating and valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain for both the general reader and the scientist. This little book will become a classic., [In The Mind of a Mnemonist ] The Soviet psychologist Aleksandr R. Luria (1902'e"77) describes the life and personality of a man (known as 'S') who was found to have a literally limitless memory and whose burden was that he was able to forget things only by an act of will'e¦ The same publisher reissued The Man with a Shattered World , Luria's study of a young soldier who suffers a catastrophic head injury and has to relearn almost everything. In 1973 one reviewer called it an intriguing and 'valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain.' Both are translated by Lynn Solotaroff., Zasetsky'e¦in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain'e¦ He could not even have written his journal'e"3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appalling effort over a quarter of a century'e"had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination., The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist ...Writing is Zasetsky's laborious way of thinking. His achievement is that he has managed, after untold agonies and frustrations, to describe his unending confusions with terrible clarity. It would take a lobotomized Samuel Beckett to match it., These two books [ The Man with a Shattered World and The Mind of a Mnemonist ] are compassionate and vivid portraits-he called them 'neurological novels'-though they are in fact case histories of two patients whom Luria observed for 30 years., Originally published almost two decades ago, these fascinating and enormously informative case histories are now classics, each the product of almost 30 years of research by the late Soviet neuropsychologist Aleksandr Romanovich Luria...The Man with a Shattered World describes the heroic struggle of a young soldier trying to recover the memory and other mental capacities lost when a bullet entered his brain. Although different facets of mind are discussed in each [The Mind of a Mnemonist and The Man with a Shattered World] in a sense the two books are complementary, as memory is exaggerated in one and impaired in the other. What we know about the brain and mind is greatly enriched by either book., Zasetsky... in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain... He could not even have written his journal--3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appalling effort over a quarter of a century-had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination., The Soviet psychologist Aleksandr R. Luria (1902-77) describes the life and personality of a man (known as 'S') who was found to have a literally limitless memory and whose burden was that he was able to forget things only by an act of will...The same publisher reissued The Man with the Shattered World, Luria's study of a young soldier who suffers a catastrophic head injury and has to relearn almost everything. In 1973 one reviewer called it an intriguing and 'valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain.' Both are translated by Lynn Solotaroff., Originally published almost two decades ago, these fascinating and enormously informative case histories are now classics, each the product of almost 30 years of research by the late Soviet neuropsychologist Aleksandr Romanovich Luria'e¦ The Man with a Shattered World describes the heroic struggle of a young soldier trying to recover the memory and other mental capacities lost when a bullet entered his brain. Although different facets of mind are discussed in each [ The Man with a Shattered World and The Mind of a Mnemonist ], in a sense the two books are complementary, as memory is exaggerated in one and impaired in the other. What we know about the brain and mind is greatly enriched by either book., Originally published almost two decades ago, these fascinating and enormously informative case histories are now classics, each the product of almost 30 years of research by the late Soviet neuropsychologist Aleksandr Romanovich Luria... The Man with a Shattered World describes the heroic struggle of a young soldier trying to recover the memory and other mental capacities lost when a bullet entered his brain. Although different facets of mind are discussed in each [ The Man with a Shattered World and The Mind of a Mnemonist ], in a sense the two books are complementary, as memory is exaggerated in one and impaired in the other. What we know about the brain and mind is greatly enriched by either book., This is an important and remarkable book'e"the product of the relationship between two remarkable men, one a world authority on the brain, the other his unfortunate brain-damaged patient'e¦ Luria has created a fascinating and valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain for both the general reader and the scientist. This little book will become a classic.
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Dewey Decimal
617/.481044/0924 B
Synopsis
Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, found himself unable to recall his recent past or speak, read, or write without difficulty. Woven throughout his first-person account are interpolations by Luria himself., Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past; half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty speaking, reading, and writing. Much of the book consists of excerpts from Zasetsky's own diaries. Laboriously, he records his memories in order to reestablish his past and to affirm his existence as an intelligent being. Luria's comments and interpolations provide a valuable distillation of the theory and techniques that guided all of his research. His "digressions" are excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and its relation to higher mental functions., While the importance of collections has been evident in the sciences and humanities for several centuries, the social and cultural significance of collecting practices is now receiving serious attention as well. As reflected in programs like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, and websites such as eBay, collecting has had a consistent and growing presence in popular culture. In tandem with popular collecting, institutions are responding to changes in the collecting environment, as library catalogs go online and museums use new technologies to help generate attendance for their exhibits. In Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, Kevin M. Moist and David Banash have assembled several essays that examine collecting practices on both a personal and professional level. These essays situate collectors and collections in a contemporary context and also show how our changing world finds new meaning in the legacy of older collections. Arranged by such themes as "Collecting in a Virtual World," "Changing Relationships with Things," "Collecting and Identity--Personal and Political," and "Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies," these essays help illuminate the role of objects in our lives.Covering a breadth of interdisciplinary perspectives and subjects--from PEZ candy dispensers and trading cards to sports memorabilia and music--Contemporary Collecting will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, popular culture studies, sociology, art history, and more.
LC Classification Number
RD594.Z38L8713 1987
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