Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Millions of people remember it the same way: Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. The Berenstain Bears were always spelled 'Berenstein.' The Monopoly Man wore a monocle. C-3PO had a silver leg.They’re wrong - or are they?Mandela’s Ghost takes the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect and asks the question mainstream science won’t: what if these aren’t glitches in memory, but scars left behind by a changed timeline? Moving case by case through some of the most famous shared false memories in modern culture - from movie misquotes and cereal box logos to the Sphinx’s missing nose - this book builds a playful but unsettling case that someone, somewhere, has already rewritten history, and we’re the only ones who remember how it used to go.Alongside each case file, Mandela’s Ghost also gives you the real explanation neuroscience offers for these collective misremembrances - confabulation, false memory formation, the Mandela Effect’s roots in genuine cognitive science. You’ll walk away with both the fun theory and the facts, and get to decide for yourself which one keeps you up at night.Equal parts pop-science curiosity and speculative fiction thought experiment, this is a book for anyone who’s ever second-guessed a memory they were absolutely sure about.
