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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.
Hardcover:
9780307272089 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 26, 2010, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9780307473028 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $15.00 | also contains The Mind's Eye
9780739378038 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 26, 2010), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: 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:
9780307366368 | Knopf Canada, October 26, 2010, cover price $25.95
Paperback:
9780307473028 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $15.00 | also contains The Mind's Eye
Miscellaneous:
9780307594556 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 26, 2010, cover price $26.95
Product Description: With an estimated 400,000 multiple sclerosis patients in the United States alone, conservatively speaking, half of the MS population will encounter varying degrees of cognitive difficulties. Newer studies point to a percentage of 65%, affecting over 2...read more
Paperback:
9781932603651 | 1 edition (Demos Medical Pub, May 28, 2008), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: With an estimated 400,000 multiple sclerosis patients in the United States alone, conservatively speaking, half of the MS population will encounter varying degrees of cognitive difficulties.
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...read more
Hardcover:
9780805063141, titled "Mind's Eye" | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook
Paperback:
9780440229018, titled "Mind's Eye" | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, March 1, 2001), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
9780805096743, titled "Mind's Eye" | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, September 15, 1999, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal chord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739383919, titled "The Mind's Eye" | Unabridged edition (Random House, October 26, 2010), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.
Reinforced:
9780606208000, titled "Mind's Eye" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
Prebinding:
9781435295384, titled "Mind's Eye" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780613340137, titled "Mind's Eye" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.40 | About this edition: A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
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