The Mind's Eye

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Mind's Eye
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Oliver Sacks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780330508902
ClassificationsDewey:152.14
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 2 September 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat describes how we experience the visual world. In The Mind's 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 capacity to recognise 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, and The Mind's Eye is testament to the myriad ways that we, as humans, are capable of rising to this challenge. As such, it's also testament to the human power of creativity and adaptation.

Author Biography

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten previous books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire.