Word: novels
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...remarkable plasticity of the brain has put scientists in hot pursuit of novel ways to treat a host of ailments. "What we are is a product of learning progressions in the brain," says Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of Scientific Learning. "A lot of people are thinking about how to use intensive training to remediate the impairments of mankind...
None of these are remotely true. Movies don't always follow the books on which they're based, but in this case anyone able to track down the novel from which the movie has been rather faithfully adapted by Kubrick and co-writer Frederic Raphael would have been more in the know. Titled Traumnovelle (Dream Story), it was first published in 1926 by Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright, physician and friend of Freud's, and has been available in paperback in the U.S. since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based...
There are four copies of the futuristic novel "1984" on the shelves on Widener Library. And lately, some Widener employees feel as though Big Brother himself is over their shoulders...
Hawthorne's birthplace and the House of seven Gables, which inspired his novel of that name, sit side by side a few blocks from the Customs House...
There are four copies of the futuristic novel "1984" on the shelves on Widener Library. And lately, some Widener employees feel as though Big Brother himself is over their shoulders...