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My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey
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- ISBN: 9780670020744
- ISBN: 0670020745
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Physical Description:
183 p : ill. ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Viking ed.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2008, c2006.
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