Moonwalking with Einstein: Read-alikes

Can't get enough of Joshua Foer's exciting new book Moonwalking with Einstein? Here are three read-alikes recommended by NoveList, the readers' advisory database available for free to Mastics-Moriches-Shirley cardholders.



Presents the astonishing first-person account of living with the only diagnosed case of a remarkable superior memory condition, whereby the author remembers all the days of her life since age 14 in astonishing and unstoppable detail.

Warns that the huge burden of information overload and multitasking can exceed the limits of our slowly evolving stone-age brain. Includes keen writing on the impact on working memory of problem solving, meditation, computer games, caffeine and the existence of attention deficit disorder.

A tour of brain science explores the disparity between the brain's seemingly endless capacity and its tendency to fail at even simple tasks, in an account by a famous autistic savant that incorporates elements of his own story.

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