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 ...
Oliver Sacks ist berühmt für seine brillanten Geschichten. Sie führen uns tief in die Welt des menschlichen Geistes und Gehirns und erweitern unser Verständnis des menschlichen Wesens. Musik, so zeigt Sacks, hat die einzigartige Kraft, das Gehirn in ganz bemerkenswerter und komplexer Weise zu verändern und zieht uns unwiderstehlich in ihren Bann.
Oliver Sacks ist berühmt für seine brillanten Geschichten. Sie führen uns tief in die Welt des menschlichen Geistes und Gehirns und erweitern unser...
Um die visuelle, sich im Raum entfaltende Gebärdensprache zu erforschen, macht Oliver Sacks diverse Reisen im wörtlichen und übertragenen Sinne. Das Ergebnis seiner Erkundungen: Die Gebärdensprache ist kein primitiver Behelf, wie viele glauben, sondern eine strukturierte, differenzierte, feinste intellektuelle wie emotionale Nuancen vermittelnde Ausdrucksform, der Lautsprache ebenbürtig, ja in mancher Hinsich überlegen, "eine Sprache, die sich für Vorträge ebensogut eignet wie für die Liebe".
Um die visuelle, sich im Raum entfaltende Gebärdensprache zu erforschen, macht Oliver Sacks diverse Reisen im wörtlichen und übertragenen Sinne. Da...
With compassion and insight, Dr. Oliver Sacks again illuminates the mysteries of the brain by introducing us to some remarkable characters, including Pat, who remains a vivacious communicator despite the stroke that deprives her of speech, and Howard, a novelist who loses the ability to read. Sacks investigates those who can see perfectly well but are unable to recognize faces, even those of their own children. He describes totally blind people who navigate by touch and smell; and others who, ironically, become hyper-visual. Finally, he recounts his own battle with an eye tumor and the...
With compassion and insight, Dr. Oliver Sacks again illuminates the mysteries of the brain by introducing us to some remarkable characters, includi...
Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders he embarks on an exploration of Southern Mexico, a region that is also rich in human history and culture. He muses on the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian culture and hallucinogens, the vibrant sights and sounds of the marketplace, and the peculiar passions of botanists. What other species would comb ancient Zapotec ruins on...
Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a deligh...
