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The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
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Description for The Mind's Eye
Paperback. The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat describes how we experience the visual world. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMRP; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
`Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? 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 recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense ... Read more
`Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? 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 recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330508902
SKU
V9780330508902
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99-50
About Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as ... Read more
Reviews for The Mind's Eye
Packed with wisdom, humour, extraordinary human stories and reflections on how we all perceive the world . . . He ends with a brilliant discussion of blindness and the ways in which blind people develop visual concepts. Heartily recommended'.
Reader's Digest
The Mind's Eye is about the possibility of recovery and the inexorable decline of the ageing individual. ... Read more
Reader's Digest
The Mind's Eye is about the possibility of recovery and the inexorable decline of the ageing individual. ... Read more