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A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts with vivid examples—case studies, literary excerpts, experimental evidence, and accounts of highly visible news events such as the O. J. Simpson verdict, Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony, and the search for the Oklahoma City bo...
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The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on her economy, security, population, and eating habits. One might expect this to have been reflected in her society and culture. Indeed, this has now become the conventional wisdom: that Britain was steeped in imperialism domestically, which affected (or infected) almost everything Britons thought, felt, and did. This is the first book to examine this assumption critically against the broader background of contemporary British society. ...
Do you fed up of forgetting small-small things?Do you known as absent minded person?Do you known as forgetful person?Do you known as person who screws up good work?Do you think that you don't get proper success you deserve?Do you get humiliated by others on several small mistakes even you have done big works well?Than this book is for you.Why I have written this book? Because I have problem of absent mindedness but never know. How I know that I have a problem of absentmindedness.-I have done privet practice as Homeopath for 10 years.-I have worked as Assistance professor in Homeopathic Medical College.-When I join the government job as Homeopathic medical officer at Government Homeopathic Di...
The Absent Minded Scientist
Sir John Seeley is best known for his remark that the empire was acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness.
When a counterfeiting ring rocks London, the trail leads to a curiosity shop and a professor offering a treatment for 'absent-minded gentlemen'; - but can Detective Kenyon get to the bottom of the clever scheme? Frank Heller was the pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, who was the first internationally famous Swedish crime writer. The son of a clergyman, after his university years he fled Sweden for the continent to avoid arrest after a financial fraud. After losing the swindled money in a casino in Monte Carlo, he tried his hand at writing novels with immediate success, and produced forty-three novels, short stories and travelogues before his death in 1947.
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