Explores our brains' near-miraculous ability to arrange and re-arrange themselves in response to external circumstances. This title examines how this 'open architecture', the elasticity of our brains, helps and hinders humans in their attempts to learn to read, and to process the written language.
A landmark book on the womb - its history, its present and the possibilities for its future - by midwife and bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story