Esta obra muestra al lector los entresijos de las sociedades secretas: sus ideas, que circulan por el circuito intelectual de las sociedades modernas, y que entran en la categoria de lo esoterico, lo magico y lo mitologico. Mas alla de la Historia oficial se esconde una Historia oculta que desconocemos. Existe un conocimiento secreto, que constituye una contraseña para acceder al nucleo central del Poder, y buena parte de las doctrinas e ideas que subyacen a las sociedades iniciaticas acaban colisionando con los intereses de millones de personas. / Human beings were never born to read, writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single childs life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts. Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians was a very different brain from the one this is immersed in todays technology-driven literacy. The potential transformations in this changed reading brain, Wolf argues, have profound implications for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.