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Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older : How Memory Shapes our Past
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older How Memory Shapes our Past
Author: Douwe Draaisma
Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why, as we grow older, does time seem to condense, speed up and elude us, while in old age, significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened y...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521834247
ISBN-10: 0521834244
Publication Date: 11/29/2004
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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