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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen reveals the surprising answer to two apparently distinct questions: Why are humans so inventive? And why does autism exist? The first question hangs over almost every human endeavor: Business people want to know how to innovate. Cognitive psychologists want to understand the nature of creativity. Evolutionary scientists and comparative psychologists want to understand why we are capable of such cultural complexity...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young woman gets ready for a party. She is autistic, yet within her mind, she is whoever she wants to be. What appears to an ordinary night out is - through the prism of her singular perspective - extraordinary. As the evening unfolds, each encounter reveals the vast discrepancies between what she is thinking and feeling, and what she is able to say. And there's so much she'd like to say. So when...
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with autism at the age of thirty-four, one of the UK's hottest comedy stars reflects on the ways her undiagnosed autism influenced her youth, from the tree that functioned as her childhood best friend to the psychiatric facility where she ended up when no one knew what to do with her.
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