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Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
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Consciousness.
Neuropsychology.
Creative ability.
Neurologists -- England -- Essays.
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Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Consciousness.
Neuropsychology.
Creative ability.
Neurologists -- England -- Essays.
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The river of consciousness / Oliver Sacks.
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Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Knopf Canada, 2017.
Call #:
612
.8233
S121r
Subjects
Consciousness.
Neuropsychology.
Creative ability.
Neurologists -- England -- Essays.
ISBN:
9780345808998 (hc.)
Description:
237 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 2019-228) and index.
Summary:
"A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders - autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human"--Provided by publisher.
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