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Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
Oliver Sacks
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Description for Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
Paperback. The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFZ; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – Evening Standard
Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar – for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330523646
SKU
V9780330523646
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99-50
About Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. Born in London and educated at Oxford, he held positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia ... Read more
Reviews for Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
Seeing Voices is a manifesto, characteristically humane and impassioned; once more, Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face.
Sunday Times
Empathetic, intelligent and compassionate.
Guardian
A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language.
Independent
Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding ... Read more
Sunday Times
Empathetic, intelligent and compassionate.
Guardian
A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language.
Independent
Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding ... Read more