Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to...
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also...
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots...
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With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oli...
In Music in the Head, Dr. Leo Rangell explores auditory hallucinations from both the personal and professional perspective. His hallucinations started in 1995 following surgery, and he has lived with them every day since then. He combines his professional training and his personal insight in this scientifically-based, yet conversational book, making these intriguing phenomena approachable for any reader.
-We are starting to see a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neuroscience such as Freud could only dream of. Pay dirt will be found at the brain-mind border. One can...
In Music in the Head, Dr. Leo Rangell explores auditory hallucinations from both the personal and professional perspective. His hallucinations ...
In 1955 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English where he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues dismissed signing as mere mimicry of speech, Stokoe saw in it elements of a distinctive language all its own."Seeing Language in Sign"traces the process that Stokoe followed to prove scientifically and unequivocally that American Sign Language (ASL) met the full criteria of linguisticsphonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and use of languageto be classified a fully developed language. This perceptive...
In 1955 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English where he was first exposed to deaf people sig...
Zu Beginn begegnen wir dem Autor auf einer Wanderung in den norwegischen Bergen. Das Urlaubsidyll verwandelt sich jäh in eine Katastrophe: In einer gottverlassenen Gegend verletzt sich Sacks ein Bein. Unter unsäglichen Schmerzen kriecht er ins Tal hinunter: Er muß vor Anbruch der Dunkelheit gefunden werden, weil er sonst zu erfrieren droht. Zwei Jäger entdecken ihn. Der Sehnenabriß verheilt gut, aber Sacks hat das Gefühl für sein Bein verloren. Es liegt da wie etwas Abgestorbenes, das nicht zu ihm gehört. Oliver Sacks läßt den Leser auch in diesem Buch in die Abgründe...
Zu Beginn begegnen wir dem Autor auf einer Wanderung in den norwegischen Bergen. Das Urlaubsidyll verwandelt sich jäh in eine Katastrophe: In einer g...
Das neue Buch von Oliver Sacks entführt den Leser in die Welt der Südseeinseln. Die erste der Reisen führt uns zu zwei Inseln, wo ein überdurchschnittlich hoher Bevölkerungsanteil an einer totalen Farbenblindheit leidet. Die Begegnungen mit den Betroffenen sowie die Untersuchungen und Theorien zur Herkunft der erblichen Farbenblindheit stehen im Mittelpunkt.Auf der zweiten Reise begegnet Sacks Menschen mit dem bislang unheilbaren Lytico-Bodig-Syndrom, das sich in fortschreitender Lähmung oder Demenz manifestiert. Ist die Erkrankung auf den Genuß von Früchten, Blättern und Samen der...
Das neue Buch von Oliver Sacks entführt den Leser in die Welt der Südseeinseln. Die erste der Reisen führt uns zu zwei Inseln, wo ein überdurchsch...