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Burrell, Brian

 
9780767906777: Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds

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Traces the near-obsessive nineteenth-century research of top scientific minds to locate possible anatomical signs of genius, criminal behavior, and insanity, discussing the posthumous brain examinations of such figures as Albert Einstein, Walt Whitman, and Vladimir Lenin. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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BRIAN BURRELL teaches mathematics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The author of The Words We Live By and Damn the Torpedoes, he has appeared on C-SPAN's Booknotes with Brian Lamb and the Today show. He makes his home in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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9780385501286: Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds

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ISBN 10:  0385501285 ISBN 13:  9780385501286
Editorial: Broadway Books, 2005
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