Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Frank Delaney, written under the pseudonym of Francis Bryan. It is a sequel to the novel Treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Twelve years after the events chronicled in "Treasure Island," Jim Hawkins (the narrator) takes up ownership of the Admiral Benbow Inn. He improves the inn with his share of the treasure taken from the island, and becomes well known as a raconteur of his adventures. He is visited by a lady travelling by coach from Bristol, without
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain is a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book by American neuroscientist David Eagleman, an adjunct professor at Stanford University. "If the conscious mind - the part you consider to be you - is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?" This is the main question throughout the entirety of the book. In "Incognito", Eagleman contends that most of the operations of the brain are inaccessible to awareness, such that the conscious mind "is like a stowaway on a transatlantic steam ship, taking