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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

By Oliver Sacks

Book information

Publisher
Alfred a Knopf
Year
1995
ISBN
0679437851, 9780679437857
LCC
RC351 .S1948 1995
Open Library ID
OL1101816M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3118952 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
362\362
DPI
300
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Detailed and fascinating portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. "Among doctors who write with acuity and grace, Sacks ( The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) takes a higher place with each successive book.... enlarges our view of the nature of human experience." --Publisher's Weekly "... Dr. Sacks's best book to date." --The New York Time Book Review

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