Review: Circuit Breakers: How Neuroscientists Get Inside Your Head

Circuit Breakers: How Neuroscientists Get Inside Your Head by Anna Chambers
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Through laboratory experiments on primates and interviews and tests with people suffering from various neurological disorders or impairment, the author describes the progress made (as well as the inevitable setbacks) and the latest significant discoveries, which may also lead to improvements for people who have suffered some form of brain or spinal cord injury.
It’s not exactly an easy or captivating read if you’re not particularly interested in the subject.

Attraverso esperimenti di laboratorio sui primati o interviste e test a persone con varie patologie neurologiche, l'autrice racconta i passi in avanti (e anche le fermate obbligatorie) e le ultime rilevanti scoperte, che possono portare anche a dei miglioramenti per le persone che hanno subito un qualche tipo di trauma celebrale o spinale.
Non é propio una letttura facile o affascinante se l'argomento non vi piace poi tantissimo.

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Review: What You Learn Learning Music: The life lessons music teaches those who would learn to play

What You Learn Learning Music: The life lessons music teaches those who would learn to play by Mike Shaw
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Through the conversations between the two musicians who wrote this book, we discover that, at its core, jazz is also a way to learn how to collaborate with others, to pretend we know how to do something until we actually succeed (fake it till you make it), to have confidence in ourselves and in others, and to recognize our mentors and steal from them what we still lack.
It’s very nice, but it’s mainly about jazz music.

Attraverso i dialoghi dei due musicisti che hanno scritto questo libro, scopriamo che fondamentalmente il Jazz é anche un modo per imparare a collaborare con le altre persone, per fingere di saper fare qulcosa fino a quando non ci riusciamo davvero, di avere fiducia in noi stessi e negli altri e di riconoscere i nostri maestri e di rubare a loro quello che ancora ci manca.
Molto carino, ma é soprattutto sulla musica Jazz.

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Review: Dune Messiah Book 1

Dune Messiah Book 1 by Frank Herbert
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Personally, I think that at least the latter three books in the Dune series would be more readable if they were shorter. So I welcome the graphic novels—which I prefer to the movies, that change too many things—because they let me revisit my favorite characters without too much of a struggle.

Personalmente ritengo che almeno gli ultimi tre dei libri della saga di Dune, sarebbero piú leggibili se durassero di meno. Quindi ben vengano le graphic-novel, che preferisco ai film che cambiano troppe cose, dove posso tornare a leggere dei miei personaggi preferiti, senza soffrire troppo.

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