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Author Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955- author.

Title Into the magic shop : a neurosurgeon's quest to discover the mysteries of the brain and the secrets of the heart / James R. Doty, MD.

Publication Info. New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  617.48 DOTY    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  617.48 DOTY    DUE 04-12-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY DOTY    DUE 04-29-24
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B DOTY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO DOTY    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.48 DOTY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  617.48 DOT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  617.48 DOTY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  617.4809 DOTY    Check Shelf
Description 276 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Summary The author relates how a chance encounter in a magic shop with a woman who taught him exercises to ease his sufferings and manifest his greatest desires gave him a glimpse of the relationship between the brain and the heart, and drove him to explore the neuroscience of compassion and altruism.
Contents Real magic -- A body at rest -- Thinking about thinking -- Growing pains -- Three wishes -- Apply yourself -- Unacceptable -- It's not brain surgery -- The sultan of nothing -- Giving up -- The alphabet of the heart -- Manifesting compassion -- The face of God.
Subject Doty, James R. (James Robert), 1955-
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Compassion.
Altruism.
Mind and body.
ISBN 9781594632983 (hardback)
1594632987 (hardback)
9780399577963 (International edition)
0399577963 (International edition)
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