ISBN:

• 9781643136882
• 9781643133249

Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Description: xiv, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• A medieval starting place
• Creating a memory palace
• Stories, imagination and the way your brain works
• Characters, characters everywhere
• Weird and wonderful portable memory aids
• When art becomes writing
• Lessons from the Middle Ages
• Learning in school and throughout life
• Does memory have to decline when you age?
• Memory athletes battle it out.

Control Number: 2875220

Subjects:

• Memory -- History.
• Memory.
• Mnemonics.