Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf - Brossura

Oliver Sacks

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ISBN 10: 0330523643 ISBN 13: 9780330523646

Casa editrice: Picador, 2012

Riassunto

'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to categorize their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.

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Recensione:

Seeing Voices is a manifesto, characteristically humane and impassioned; once more, Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face. (Sunday Times)

Empathetic, intelligent and compassionate. (Guardian)

Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness. (Sunday Telegraph)

A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language. (Independent)

Descrizione del libro:

The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0330523643
• ISBN 13: 9780330523646
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240