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The Mind's Eye
Sacks, Oliver

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The Mind's Eye
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The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat describes how we experience the visual world.

In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognise faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world, and The Mind's Eye is testament to the myriad ways that we, as humans, are capable of rising to this challenge. As such, it's also testament to the human power of creativity and adaptation.

Author Information

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten previous books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire.

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ISBN:
9780330513999

Binding:
Paperback

Pub. Date:
01/11/2010

Category:
Psychology

Imprint:
Picador

Pages:
260 page/s

Stock:
In stock

Price:
$19.99 AUD

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