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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
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Stolen Focus

By Johann Hari ,

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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All That She Carried

By Tiya Miles ,

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It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
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It Didn't Start With You

By Mark Wolynn ,

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Our Souls at Night
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Our Souls at Night

By Kent Haruf ,

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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
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Trace

By Lauret Savoy ,

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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
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Cultural Amnesia

By Clive James ,

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Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
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Rewriting the Soul

By Ian Hacking ,

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A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
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A Mind For Numbers

By Barbara Oakley ,

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Memories of War: Micronesians in the Pacific War
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Memories of War

By Laurence Marshall Carucci , Suzanne Falgout , Lin Poyer

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How Modernity Forgets
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How Modernity Forgets

By Paul Connerton ,

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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
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A Primer for Forgetting

By Lewis Hyde ,

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Moonwalking with Einstein

By Joshua Foer ,

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The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us
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The Rag and Bone Shop

By Veronica O'Keane ,

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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
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Nothing Ever Dies

By Viet Thanh Nguyen ,

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The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing
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The Nostalgia Factory

By Douwe Draaisma ,

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On the Shadows of the Ideas: Comprising an art of investigating, discovering, judging, ordering, and applying, set forth for the purpose of inner writing, and not for vulgar operations of memory
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On the Shadows of the Ideas

By Giordano Bruno , John Michael Greer (translator) ,

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All about Dad and Me: A Journal for Fathers and Daughters
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All about Dad and Me

By Rockridge Press ,

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Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory
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Haunted by Atrocity

By Benjamin G. Cloyd ,

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Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
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Creating a Confederate Kentucky

By Anne E. Marshall ,

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The Mind Map Book: Unlock Your Creativity, Boost Your Memory, Change Your Life
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The Mind Map Book

By Tony Buzan , Barry Buzan ,

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How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week: 50 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills
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How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week

By Dominic O'Brien ,

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Use Your Head: How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind
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Use Your Head

By Tony Buzan ,

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The Future of Nostalgia
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The Future of Nostalgia

By Svetlana Boym ,

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History and Memory
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History and Memory

By Geoffrey Cubitt ,

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Marking the Mind: A History of Memory
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Marking the Mind

By Kurt Danziger ,

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Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
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Palimpsestic Memory

By Max Silverman ,

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Peripheral Memories: Public and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the Past
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Peripheral Memories

By Elisabeth Boesen (editor) , Fabienne Lentz (editor) , Michel Margue (editor)

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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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Remember

By Lisa Genova ,

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Remembrance of Things Past
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Remembrance of Things Past

By Marcel Proust , CK Scott Moncrieff (translator) , Terence Kilmartin (translator)

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Exploratory Writing: Everyday magic for life and work
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Exploratory Writing

By Alison Jones ,

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Mensa Mind Benders: 100 Logic Games and Puzzles to Improve Your Memory, Exercise Your Brain, and Keep Your Mind Sharp
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Mensa Mind Benders

By David Millar ,

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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
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Dementia

By John Swinton ,

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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
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Denmark Vesey's Garden

By Ethan J. Kytle , Blain Roberts ,

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Memorize the Stoics!: The Ancient Art of Memory Meets the Timeless Art of Living
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Memorize the Stoics!

By Kevin Vost ,

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The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
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The Seven Sins of Memory

By Daniel L. Schacter ,

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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past
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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

By Douwe Draaisma ,

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Memory
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Memory

By Alan Baddeley , Michael W. Eysenck , Michael C. Anderson

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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

By Catherine Gray ,

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Mirror Touch: A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain
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Mirror Touch

By Joel Salinas ,

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Just The Way I Am
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Just The Way I Am

By Jo Watson ,

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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
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Why We Remember

By Charan Ranganath ,

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Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art
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Mirrors of Memory

By Mary Bergstein ,

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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

By Edward B. Burger , Michael Starbird ,

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Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory
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Present Pasts

By Andreas Huyssen ,

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Self-Reliance, Translated
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Self-Reliance, Translated

By Adam Khan (translator) ,

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The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
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The Secrets of Story

By Matt Bird ,

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Ignore Everybody
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Ignore Everybody

By Hugh MacLeod ,

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Before and After the Book Deal
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Before and After the Book Deal

By Courtney Maum ,

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The Book of Learning and Forgetting
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The Book of Learning and Forgetting

By Frank Smith ,

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The Self Delusion
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The Self Delusion

By Gregory Berns ,

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Epilepsy
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Epilepsy

By Adrienne Richard , Joel Reiter ,

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The Myth of Repressed Memory
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The Myth of Repressed Memory

By Katherine Ketcham , Elizabeth F. Loftus ,

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