Joshua Foer

«Foer demuestra que podemos cambiar nuestro cerebro.», EDUARDO PUNSET. El libro de no ficción del año en más de 30 países.Cuarenta días. Éste es el tiempo que perdemos de media cada año por culpa de

Si disfrutaste con la lectura de 1.000 sitios que ver antes de morir, no puedes perderte este libro, que te mostrará «otro mundo diferente» y con lugares alternativos, desconocidos, poco visitados, p

Be prepared to be amazedGuardianCan anyone get a perfect memory?Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we often forget: that, even in an age of technology, memory is the key to everything we are.In Moonwalking with Einstein he takes us on an astonishing journey through the mind, from ancient memory palace techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, Foer shows how we can all improve our memories.Captivating ... engaging ... smart and funnyThe New York TimesDelightful ... uplifting ... it shows that our minds can do extraordinary thingsWall Street JournalGreat fun ... a book worth rememberingIndependentA lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memoryNew Scientist

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La mayoría de la gente desperdicia una media de cuarenta días al año por culpa de lo que olvida. Joshua Foer era una de esas personas, hasta que decidió investigar el tema de la memoria. Para ello, se entreno durante un año para la competicion de memoria de Estados Unidos, un concurso en el que participan las personas con mas memoria del mundo. Gracias a su entrenamiento, Foer quedo en primer puesto. Este es el punto de partida de este original libro, que nos descubre las tecnicas de memorizacion ya usadas por Ciceron o los eruditos medievales para recordar libros enteros, y refl exiona sobre el papel de la memoria en nuestras vidas.Foer entrevista a neurocientificos, amnesicos, fi losofos y jugadores de ajedrez, y se somete a un escaner cerebral para fotografiar su memoria. Gracias a todo ello, nos revela como podemos mejorar de forma impresionante nuestra capacidad de recordar, y responde a sorprendentes preguntas, como que relacion existe entre la memoria y la inteligencia y que significa olvidar.

Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England.Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvellous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveller as the die-hard adventurer.Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no othera dazzling, over-the-top collection of the worlds most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. Its more than a field guideits an adventure. * National Bestseller * Named a Best New Book by BookRiot, New York Post and more * Named a Best White Elephant Gift Under $30 by Taste of Home. From the curious minds of Atlas Obscura, authors of #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura, comes an unputdownable celebration of the worlds living wonders. Learn how dung beetles navigate by the stars, and trees communicate through their roots. Meet one of the strongest animals in the world: the puny peacock mantis shrimp. Pay your respects to a 44,000 year old shrub, float along flying rivers, and explore a garbage dump overseen by endangered storks. Examine old examples of bird song notation written on sheet music. Also, first person interviews: hear from a honey hunter and his avian partners, a scientist working to find the worlds only ocean-dwelling insects, and an offshore radio DJ who is at the heart of the local fishing community. Featuring over 500 extraordinary plants, animals, and natural phenomena, with illustrations and photos on every page, the book takes readers around the globefrom Antarctic deserts to lush jungles, and into the deepest fathoms of the ocean and the hearts of our densest cities. Teeming with detail and wildly entertaining, Wild Life reinvigorates our sense of wonder, awe and amazement about the incredible creatures we share our planet with.

«Foer demuestra que podemos cambiar nuestro cerebro.», EDUARDO PUNSET. El libro de no ficción del año en más de 30 países.Cuarenta días. Éste es el tiempo que perdemos de media cada año por culpa de

From the creative minds behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura comes a road trip into the hidden heart of Americaa love letter to the strange, fantastic, and beautiful corners of the United States.America Obscura takes readers on a journey that stretches from shore to shore, in search of the countrys folk rituals and roadside museums, its outsider artists and eccentric prophets, its forgotten dreamers and improbable visionaries who help shape the landscape every day. Equal parts travel companion and cultural almanac, this is the definitive field guide to Americas hidden marvels.Start in Alaska, where the whimsical 185-foot Dr. Seuss House stacks story upon story into the clouds, and watch the moon-driven bore tide of Turnagain Arm roll in like a liquid wall for sub-arctic surfers. Head south to Colorado to visit the Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival, and then drift across the Great Plains to tour the worlds largest collection of marbles in Nebraska. In New York, meet a ghostly white deer herd that roams a decommissioned nuclear weapons repository, and in Arizona, dine at a pizza shop that also hosts concerts on a 6,000-pipe Wurlitzer organ.With hundreds of breathtaking photographs, maps, and sample road trips, America Obscura is a vividly illustrated cabinet of curiosities from the award-winning chroniclers of the worlds hidden wonders.Pack your bags and prepare to be delighted and disoriented, pulled out of the familiar, and dropped into the astonishing as you become re-enchanted with this endlessly curious and surprising country.