![]() "Reading this collection is like touring a museum of neuroscience's most dramatic anomalies, each chapter taking us to a different place and time. Compulsively readable, wicked scientific fun."― Kirkus Entertaining and quotable, Kean's writing is sharp, and each individual story brings the history of neuroscience to life. ![]() "In tale after tale, best-selling author Kean provides a fascinating, and at times gloriously gory, look at how early efforts in neurosurgery were essentially a medical guessing game. It's not just an engaging guide to mysteries of existence it's compelling story-telling for anyone with a taste for the bizarre and metaphysical."― William Poundstone, author of Rock Breaks Scissors Sam Kean's The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons will command your full attention from the first page. Good luck getting it back."― Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons is one of those books that will have you following your friends around, reading passages out loud, until they snatch the book away from you and read it for themselves. ![]() "This is Sam Kean's finest work yet, an entertaining and offbeat history of the brain populated with mad scientists, deranged criminals, geniuses, and wretched souls. Club's Best Books of 2014Ī Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Nonfiction One of Amazon's Best Books of the Year: Science ![]()
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