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Contents
Preface | 1 |
The Ramshackle Brain The Rooms Columns Bricks | 19 |
A Young Man Recognizes His Mother or A Simplified Tour of | 103 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Amazing Brain |
| Authors | Robert Evans Ornstein, Richard F. Thompson |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0395408008, 9780395408001 |
| Length | 182 pages |
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