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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Publication date
October 26, 2010
Pages
346
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739378038
ISBN-10
0739378031
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.75 in.
Original list price
$27.00
Other format details
large print
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Seeing Voices | A Leg to Stand on | Musicophilia | Hallucinations | Migraine | An Anthropologist on Mars | Awakenings | The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Seeing Voices | A Leg to Stand on | Musicophilia | Hallucinations | Migraine | An Anthropologist on Mars | Awakenings | The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In The Mindâs Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world.
There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties.
There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read.
And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side.
Sacks explores some very strange paradoxesâpeople who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by âtongue vision.â He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imageryâor vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading?
The Mindâs Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another personâs eyes, or another personâs mind.
From the Hardcover edition.
There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties.
There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read.
And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side.
Sacks explores some very strange paradoxesâpeople who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by âtongue vision.â He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imageryâor vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading?
The Mindâs Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another personâs eyes, or another personâs mind.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (October 26, 2010)
9780307272089 | details & prices | 263 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $26.95
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (October 4, 2011)
9780307473028 | details & prices | 263 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.00
This edition also contains The Mind's Eye
This edition also contains The Mind's Eye
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Random House Large Print (October 26, 2010)
9780739378038 | details & prices | 346 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $27.00
About: In The Mindâs Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight.
About: In The Mindâs Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight.
Miscellaneous
from Knopf Canada (October 26, 2010)
9780307366368 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $25.95
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