The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Brossura

Sacks, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 0330294911 ISBN 13: 9780330294911

Casa editrice: Picador, 2009

Riassunto

`The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' Sunday Times `Who is this book for? Who is it not for? It is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it' The Times `This is, in the best sense, a serious book. It is, indeed, a wonderful book, by which I mean not only that it is excellent (which it is) but also that it is full of wonder, wonders and wondering. He brings to these often unhappy people understanding, sympathy and respect. Sacks is always learning from his patients, marvelling at them, widening his own understanding and ours' Punch

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The groundbreaking bestseller from the greatest clinical writer of our time

L'autore:

Oliver Sacks was educated in London, Oxford, California and New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia and Awakenings.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330294911
• ISBN 13: 9780330294911
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272