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The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist
John Staddon
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Paperback. BIC Classification: BGH; HBT; JM; PSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Although I have been basically an academic for most of my life, the way I got there has taken some surprising turns. The first four chapters of this memoir describe what I can remember and discover about my early life: an unsuspected ancestry, fun in WW2 London, comical schooldays, and a spell in colonial Africa interrupting a wobbly college career at the end of which I left England for America. In the US I followed again a slightly erratic graduate-school trajectory that ended up in a Harvard basement. This is not just a witty transatlantic autobiography from a talented ... Read more
Although I have been basically an academic for most of my life, the way I got there has taken some surprising turns. The first four chapters of this memoir describe what I can remember and discover about my early life: an unsuspected ancestry, fun in WW2 London, comical schooldays, and a spell in colonial Africa interrupting a wobbly college career at the end of which I left England for America. In the US I followed again a slightly erratic graduate-school trajectory that ended up in a Harvard basement. This is not just a witty transatlantic autobiography from a talented ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Buckingham Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Buckingham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908684660
SKU
V9781908684660
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About John Staddon
John Staddon is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Duke University. He is a Faculty Affiliate at the John Locke Foundation and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York (UK). He has published more than 200 research papers and six books.
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