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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human.
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The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientistâ€™s understanding of the mind â€“ its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person â€“ with a poetâ€™s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. Itâ€™s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankindâ€™s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. Itâ€™s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth.
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But, most importantly, itâ€™s Broksâ€™ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinicianâ€”patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are.Â Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal, he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming.
Country USA
Author Paul Broks
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9780307985804
Format Kindle eBook
Label Crown
Manufacturer Crown
NumberOfPages 314
PublicationDate 2018-07-03
Publisher Crown
ReleaseDate 2018-07-03
Studio Crown

Country	USA
Author	Paul Broks
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780307985804
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Crown
Manufacturer	Crown
NumberOfPages	314
PublicationDate	2018-07-03
Publisher	Crown
ReleaseDate	2018-07-03
Studio	Crown

The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness

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