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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which 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.
Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of...
Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a musical species.
Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt...
Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt...
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