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Susan Greenfield
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London 1997 $19.95 paperback 162 pages ISBN 0 297 81692 6 Susan Greenfield bases her book on the 1994 series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures which she presented on `The Brain': the first female presenter since the inception of the series in 1826 with the founding speaker Michael Faraday.
The book is explicitly aimed at a nontechnical audience and, in contrast to the genre of the biology textbook with technical descriptions of neural histology and biochemistry, this puts before the reader a highly lucid and focused account of the current questions and issues facing brain...