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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: NK.AQW Sacks / College 3d - Englisch / Regal 3d-1	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

The award-winning neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat presents a collection of essays reflecting his passionate engagement with compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor, from evolution and creativity to memory and consciousness. / / Presents a collection of essays reflecting the author's passionate engagement with compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor, from evolution and creativity to memory and consciousness. / / From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, 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, a scientist and a storyteller, 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. / / /

 

AUS DEM INHALT: / / Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers

3 (24)

Speed

27 (34)

Sentience: The Mental Lives of Plants and Worms

61 (18)

The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist

79 (22)

The Fallibility of Memory

101 (22)

Mishearings

123 (6)

The Creative Self

129 (20)

A General Feeling of Disorder

149 (12)

The River of Consciousness

161 (24)

Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science

185 (34)

Bibliography 219 (10)

Index 229

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