NINE LIVES
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Daniel Tammet
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Profile Books
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Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning television documentary, The Boy with the Incredible Brain, as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Two Poets (with Les Murray) and the Kate Bush song, Pi. He is the author of nine books, including the memoir Born on a Blue Day, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; two collections of essays, Thinking in Numbers, a New Yorker recommendation, and Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing, a Booklist Editors' Choice and Listener Magazine Book of the Year; a ...
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French, German, Italian
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In this vivid work of creative nonfiction, Daniel Tammet continues his celebrated exploration of the mind, drawing on self-knowledge and immersion research to narrate the stories and inner lives of nine men and women on the neuro-diverse spectrum.
A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure solitude after discovering her own autism.
A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardom.
A non-verbal son acquires body language, gesture by gesture, in his mother’s yoga classes.
Nine Minds is a testament to the beauty and infinite variety of autistic imagination, in life as in literature.
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