An Anthropologist on Mars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Anthropologist on Mars write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2012-11-14. An Anthropologist on Mars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.
Awakenings
Awakenings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awakenings write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2013-05-29. Awakenings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I—and their return to the world after decades of “sleep.” • “One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time" (The Washington Post) from the distinguished neurologist and the national bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Awakenings—which inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams—is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
Seeing Voices
Seeing Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeing Voices write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 2011-03-04. Seeing Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
A Leg to Stand On
A Leg to Stand On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Leg to Stand On write by Oliver Sacks. This book was released on 1998-04-29. A Leg to Stand On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1984.
Studying Those Who Study Us
Studying Those Who Study Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studying Those Who Study Us write by Diana Forsythe. This book was released on 2001. Studying Those Who Study Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work who pioneered the field of the anthropology of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. It is also an exemplar of how reflexive ethnography should be done.
