One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Circle Critics Award

"A testament to the power of creativity in language, life―and love." ―Heller McAlpin, Washington Post

No other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience of wordlessness―the language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that reduced his vast vocabulary to a single syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the brain’s ability to find and connect words. Deeply rewarding to readers of all kinds, Ackerman has given us a literary love story, accessible insight into the science and medicine of brain injury, and invaluable spiritual sustenance in the face of life’s myriad physical sufferings.

• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
• A Natural History of the Senses
• An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
• Manual of Aphasia and Aphasia Therapy [With DVD ROM]
• Guide to Analysis of Language Transcript
• Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual (includes Premium Web Site 2-Semester Printed Access Card)
• The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
• Language Disorders from Infancy through Adolescence: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Communicating
• Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
• Language Disorders in Children: Fundamental Concepts of Assessment and Intervention (2nd Edition) (Pearson Communication Sciences and Disorders)