Author:Maryanne Wolf
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Proust and the Squid
By: Maryanne Wolf
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd: January 2012
Seller ID: 159273
ISBN: 1848310307
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New - New
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
By: Maryanne Wolf
Price: $15.99
Publisher: Harper Perennial: September 2008
Seller ID: 26129
ISBN: 0060933844
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New - New
"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts.
Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Prou...
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
By: Maryanne Wolf
Price: $15.99
Publisher: Harper Perennial: September 2008
Seller ID: 101365
ISBN: 0060933844
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New - New
"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts.
Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Prou...
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
By: Wolf, Maryanne
Price: $24.99
Publisher: Harper: August 2018
Seller ID: 207731
ISBN: 0062388789
Condition: New
From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.
A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of child...
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