Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Condition:Well Read and Company

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Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Condition:Well Read and Company"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