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Praise for The Man Who Wasn't There&ldquo;If you simply want to read a great science book, I can&rsquo;t recommend any more highly than this one.&rdquo;&mdash;Forbes"An agreeably written travelogue through this mysterious landscape at the frontiers of knowledge."&mdash;The Wall Street Journal&#160;&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll never see yourself&mdash;or others&mdash;the same way again.&rdquo;&mdash;People&ldquo;The gallery of personal, often tender, portraits of patients is impressive and reminiscent of the writings of Oliver Sacks&hellip; A skilled science journalist, Ananthaswamy excels at making theoretical concepts and experimental procedures both comprehensible and compelling.&rdquo;&mdash;Science&ldquo;In The Man Who Wasn&rsquo;t There, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy smartly explores the nature of the self by way of several mental conditions that eat away at patients&rsquo; identities&hellip; Following in the steps of Oliver Sacks&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat&rdquo; (1985) and V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee&rsquo;s &ldquo;Phantoms in the Brain&rdquo; (1999), Ananthaswamy uses neuropsychology and narrative to take us inside the heads of people experiencing realities very different from our own.&rdquo;&mdash;Washington Post&ldquo;Anil Ananthaswamy&rsquo;s exploration of the human &lsquo;self&rsquo; is a blazingly original excursion through the brain&mdash;as well as a fascinating catalog of bizarre disorders.&rdquo;&mdash;Entertainment Weekly"Autobiographies hinging on conditions such as Asperger's syndrome and schizophrenia are proliferating, but there is little to fill the void between such accounts and the scientific literature. Linking experiences with experiments, and individuals with numbers, Ananthaswamy bridges that gap convincingly."&mdash;Nature&#160;&ldquo;When you think 'beach read," you probably don't think "neuroscience." But science journalist Ananthaswamy has a knack for making difficult topics accessible to everyone.&rdquo; &mdash;Men&rsquo;s Journal&#160;&#160;&ldquo;It is an astonishing journey and an ambitious book, bringing together cutting-edge science and philosophy from West and East. You will not be quite the same self after reading it.&rdquo;&mdash;New Scientist"An excellent if unnerving book: 'you' turn out to be more fluid than 'you' thought."&mdash;New Scientist, CultureLab&ldquo;A&#160;thought-provoking read&hellip; Ananthaswamy relays many interesting advances and, at the same time, challenges us to contemplate who we really are.&rdquo;&mdash;Scientific American Mind&ldquo;[The Man Who Wasn&rsquo;t There] illuminates some of the most provocative questions at the boundary of science and philosophy.&rdquo;&mdash;Columbus Dispatch&ldquo;Sophisticated science, sensitive storytelling and Nancy Drew-like curiosity are at the heart of science author and journalist Anil Ananthaswamy's The Man Who Wasn't There."&mdash;San Jose Mercury News&ldquo;Science journalist Ananthaswamy skillfully inspects the bewildering connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society&hellip; Readers will be fascinated by Ananthaswamy's chronicles as he explores, with kindness and keen intelligence, the uncomfortable aberrations that reveal what it is to be human.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)&ldquo;A provocative examination of deep questions.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus&ldquo;If you like Oliver Sacks, you&rsquo;ll love this new work by Ananthaswamy&hellip;..&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal&ldquo;A faint-of-heart hypochondriac might wish to give Ananthaswamy&rsquo;s book a wide berth, but others should find it quite fascinating. 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Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music &#160; &ldquo;Stunning&hellip; poetic and incisive.&#160; Each of the patients is unique, special and incredible in revealing something special about the mind, whether healthy or fragile.&#160; Ananthaswamy discovers the elusive nature of the very idea of self and makes sense out of it.&#160; It is a remarkable achievement.&rdquo;  &mdash;Michael Gazzaniga, author of Who&rsquo;s in Charge? and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain &#160; &ldquo;Ananthaswamy&rsquo;s remarkable achievement is to make sense of these unhappy individuals&rsquo; otherness, while holding on to their human sameness. You&rsquo;ll come away enlightened and chastened, asking searching questions about who you are.&rdquo; &mdash;Nicholas Humphrey, Cambridge University, author of A History of the Mind &#160; &ldquo;Like Oliver Sacks, Ananthaswamy brings both erudition and sensitivity to his narrative so that we learn as much, and maybe more, from his subjects as we do from the scientists we meet along the way&hellip;. You&rsquo;ll emerge with renewed wonder about the simple experience of being you.&rdquo; &mdash;Anil Seth, University of Sussex, Editor-in-Chief, Neuroscience of Consciousness &#160; &ldquo;A wide range of engrossing (and many just plain weird) stories elegantly weaving together insights from psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. An informative, exciting, and slightly creepy tour of some profound questions about human nature.&rdquo; &mdash;David Poeppel, Director, Max-Planck Institute and Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, NYU &#160; &ldquo;In this lucid and personable analysis by Ananthaswamy, the self appears an illusion, which nevertheless feels very real to most of us. Since no organism can do without this mental anchor, nature has found a way to concoct one for us.&rdquo;  &mdash;Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and The Atheist&ldquo;It is an astonishing journey and an ambitious book, bringing together cutting-edge science and philosophy from West and East. You will not be quite the same self after reading it.&rdquo;&mdash;Alun Anderson, New ScientistPraise of Anil Ananthaswamy's The Edge of Physics:&ldquo;A thrilling ride!&rdquo; &mdash;Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe&ldquo;Displays a writer&rsquo;s touch for fascinating detail.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post&ldquo;A wonder-steeped page-turner.&rdquo; &mdash;Seed

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