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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

Oliver Sacks

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To these seven paradoxical tales of neurological disorder and creativity, Oliver Sacks brings the profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity that made "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" international bestsellers. He transports us into the uncanny worlds of his subjects, including an artist who loses his ability to see (or even imagine) color; a surgeon who performs delicate operations in spite of the compulsive tics and outbursts of Tourette's syndrome; and an autistic professor who holds a Ph.D. in animal science but is so bewildered by the complexity of human emotion that she feels "like an anthropologist on Mars."

Through these extraordinary people, Sacks explores what it is to feel, to sense, to remember - to be, ultimately, a coherent self in the world.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 318 pages

Publication:: 1995

Publisher:: Picador

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0330343475

ISBN13:: 9780330343473

kindle Asin:: B009UAO0J8

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

Oliver Sacks

4.15/5 (18503 ratings)

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To these seven paradoxical tales of neurological disorder and creativity, Oliver Sacks brings the profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity that made "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" international bestsellers. He transports us into the uncanny worlds of his subjects, including an artist who loses his ability to see (or even imagine) color; a surgeon who performs delicate operations in spite of the compulsive tics and outbursts of Tourette's syndrome; and an autistic professor who holds a Ph.D. in animal science but is so bewildered by the complexity of human emotion that she feels "like an anthropologist on Mars."

Through these extraordinary people, Sacks explores what it is to feel, to sense, to remember - to be, ultimately, a coherent self in the world.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 318 pages

Publication:: 1995

Publisher:: Picador

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0330343475

ISBN13:: 9780330343473

kindle Asin:: B009UAO0J8

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