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Norman Doidge's second book is every bit as strong as his first, The Brain That Changes Itself. Here he clearly describes - in terms that lay people can understand, but without dumbing anything down - the emerging science of neuroplasticity, as he tells powerful stories about the people working at its frontiers, and the healing experiences of real people. This is an important book for anyone in the healthcare world. It is also a practical guide to new possibilities for those of us who are ourselves, or have loved ones who are, struggling with developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and neurological diseases like Parkinson's.

This is a beautiful, powerful book tracing and weaving the links of family, heritage, landscape and geology. Savoy invites us to reimagine the world we walk through in part by reconnecting with the deeper meanings of the language we use to describe it, and to tell our stories of living in it.

I was pulled into this book from page one and wanted to do nothing but read until I finished it. Re-reading it, to myself and out loud with my partner, was even more fun, especially after reading the rest of this amazing series, since I could then slow down enough to notice all the depth and details that make Bujold's writing, and the characters and worlds she creates, so real and compelling. Don't miss this one!

Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves together modern botany, Native American understandings of how the world works, and her own history to create a book I will read and re-read, a chapter at a time, for years to come. I will never look at the forest floor, or my relationship to the gifts I am given everyday, the same way again. If your heart is hurting from all the pain rocking the world, read this book, and let it gift you will possibilities.