Many successful authors answer questions we long ago articulated and have wished we could answer. Michael Corballis goes at least a step further: He poses questions we wouldn't have thought to ask and then answers them with clarity and wit. And what could be more fascinating to a human being than the human brain? A Very Short Tour of the Mind exemplifies truth in advertising-it is very short, both in overall length and in the duration of each chapter, the longest of which barely makes it to the sixth page. Yet the book is packed with surprises.
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