Product Description: A Library Journal Best Book of 2015National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent into dementia...read more

Product Description: National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent into dementia...read more

Examines the life of Rita Levi-Montalcini, a women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, for her research in neurology.

Product Description: A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research.This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field...read more

Product Description: This volume, in the tradition of the earlier 1975 Neurosciences: Paths of Discovery, presents the first-person stories of a group of eminent scientists who describe their research and their careers and how they came to make the discoveries about the brain and its functions for which they have been internationally recognized...read more