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Eta Cohen (1916 – 20 November 2012) was a professional English author, teacher and violinist.. Cohen was born in Sunderland, to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania.She left school at age 16 and began to teach music in local private schools in Sunderland and Newcastle.
David Nadien was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 12, 1926, the son of Russian-Jewish father George Nadien and Dutch-Jewish mother Bertha Zwart. [2] His father was a local boxer who went by the last name "Vanderbilt."
Abram Ilich Yampolsky (Russian: Абрам Ильич Ямпольский; 1890–1956) was a Soviet violin teacher who nurtured many Soviet virtuosos during his tenure at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated in Saint Petersburg in 1913 in the class of Sergej Korguyev, a pupil and assistant of Leopold Auer , and was to be one of the founders ...
Fiction about mind control, the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as to change their attitudes, values, and beliefs.
The book was reviewed as "appealing and persuasive" by the Wall Street Journal [8] and "a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing" by The Independent. [9] A starred review from Kirkus Reviews described it as "a book that will leave you looking at yourself—and the world—differently."
A History of the Mind received positive reviews from the science journalist Marek Kohn in New Statesman and Society, [4] Francisca Goldsmith in Library Journal, [5] and from Publishers Weekly, [6] mixed reviews from the biologist Lewis Wolpert in New Scientist and the psychologist George Armitage Miller in The New York Times Book Review, [7] [8] and negative reviews from John C. Marshall in ...
Playgrounds of the Mind is a 1991 short story collection by American writer Larry Niven. [1] [2] [3] It is the sequel to N-Space. Many of the stories are set in Niven's Known Space universe. There are also excerpts from his The Magic Goes Away novel series, as well as several stories from his The Draco Tavern setting (an alien bar) and other ...
Harvey Samuel Whistler Jr. was born September 7, 1907, in Fresno, California, [4] to hotel owners, Harvey Samuel and Sallie Byrn Whistler. [5] His mother, a classically trained pianist, insisted that music be part of Harvey Jr.’s education and oversaw his earliest training on piano.