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An Anthropologist On Mars

Seven Paradoxical Tales

Seven Paradoxical Tales

By Oliver Sacks

By Oliver Sacks

By Oliver Sacks

By Oliver Sacks

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Category: Psychology

Category: Psychology

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Feb 13, 1996 | ISBN 9780679756972

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    About An Anthropologist On Mars

    To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

    About An Anthropologist On Mars

    To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

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    Also by Oliver Sacks

    Everything in Its Place
    The Creative Self
    The River of Consciousness
    On the Move
    Gratitude
    See all books by Oliver Sacks

    About Oliver Sacks

    Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as “the… More about Oliver Sacks

    About Oliver Sacks

    Dr. Oliver Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations. The New York Times referred to him as “the… More about Oliver Sacks

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 13, 1996 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679756972

    Category: Psychology

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 14, 2012 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780345805881

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    Table Of Contents

    Acknowledgments
    Preface

    The Case of the Colorblind Painter
    The Last Hippie
    A Surgeon’s Life
    To See and Not See
    The Landscape of His Dreams
    Prodigies
    An Anthropologist on Mars

    Selected Bibliography
    References
    Index

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