BookThe mind's eye
Personal name
Main title
- The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks.
Edition
- 1st ed.
Published/Created
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
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Description
- xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN
- 9780307272089
- 0307272087
LC classification
- RC423 .S23 2010
Summary
- Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book 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 perceive through another person's eyes, or another person's mind.
Contents
- Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye.
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Notes
- "A Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index.
LCCN
- 2010012791
Dewey class no.
- 616.85/5
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)ocn505417145
Type of material
- Book
Item Availability
Shelf Location
- FLS2015 000584
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- Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms (FLS2)
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- Not Charged