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Author Foer, Joshua.

Title Moonwalking with Einstein : the art and science of remembering everything / Joshua Foer.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, c2011, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  153.14 Foe    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  153.12 Foe    ---  Available
Description 307 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-297) and index.
Contents The smartest man is hard to find -- The man who remembered too much -- The expert expert -- The most forgetful man in the world -- The memory palace -- How to memorize a poem -- The end of remembering -- The OK plateau -- The talented tenth -- The little rain man in all of us -- The U.S. Memory Championships.
Summary Having achieved the seemingly unachievable-- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion-- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.
Source NBK 7/12 PPL
Local Note 1
Subject Mnemonics.
Memory.
ISBN 9780143120537 (pbk.)

 
    
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