Biography   The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham Selina Hastings   Somerset Maugham was the most popular English author in the first half of twentieth century and the most successful playwright of this era. His books had sold eighty million copies in his life time. He earned huge money through his books and was the richest author of his time. But critical acclaim and the more prestigious awards like OBE and Noble, eluded him. His unconventional views and sexual life were responsible for this neglect by the intelligentsia. This dislike was aggravated by his unparalleled popularity amongst the reading public; an attribute particularly looked down upon by the high brows amongst critics. Though he professed to know his precise place in the hierarchy of English writers - ‘I know where I stand (in the gathering of literary luminaries), in the very front row of the back benchers’- and affected to bear this neglect with nonchalance, this slight rankled him lifelong.  ...

Science/Biology/Biography   The Forgetting- Understanding Alzheimer’s: A Biography of a Disease David Shenk   Being alive is to continuously experience the world as it impinges on our senses. These experiences leave an imprint on our minds in the form of memories. From these memories we weave a universe that we carry within us till we die. Memory is central to our existence. It tells us who we are and how we are progressing in time. There cannot be meaningful thought in its absence. Neither can there be sustained emotions. If a person is deprived of memory, he ceases to be a human in the most fundamental sense. He loses the sense of self and of the world which surrounds him.   Our brain is snugly enclosed in a bony vault. It does not experience the world directly. Our senses feed it information in form of neural activity. This activates various synaptic transmissions among billions of neurons in brain. It is through these electro-chemical signals that brain ...

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****/*****                                                                                                                   Biography/Science Darwin Adrian Desmond and James Moore Before him, we were slave of a capricious creator on whose inscrutable whim we came into the world. He lay down immutable laws on Good and Evil which could be transgressed only on the promise of eternal condemnation to the fires of hell. He g...

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