Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Uncle Tungsten ISBN: 033052366X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330523660 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Цена: 1010 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: 'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind' The Times In Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life.
And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft ten-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning. Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. 'This book is both a heartwarming account of a delightful, eccentric family life and an inspiring record of a remarkable intellectual odyssey' Mail on Sunday 'The amalgamation of personal recollection and scientific history makes a luminous, inspiring book' Sunday Telegraph 'Uncle Tungsten is really about the raw joy of scientific understanding; what it is like to be a precocious child discovering the alchemical secrets of reality for the first time: the sheer thrill of finding intelligible patterns in nature' Guardian
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Man who mistook his wife for a hat ISBN: 0330523627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330523622 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: от 1154 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Hallucinations ISBN: 1447208269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447208266 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1010 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `The keystone of the amazing edifice that is this remarkable thinker`s oeuvre.` Will Self, Guardian
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Gratitude ISBN: 1509822801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509822805 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1010 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Island of the Colour-blind ISBN: 0330526103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330526104 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1111 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Mind`s eye ISBN: 0330508903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330508902 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1010 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat describes how we experience the visual world.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Anthropologist on Mars ISBN: 0330523600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330523608 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1010 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Автор: Sacks J; Rinaldo L Название: Mini Magic Colour; Bunny Spring Day ISBN: 1904921493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904921493 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 504 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A fun pull-tab mini book. Little ones will be amazed as each goes from black and white to colour.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: The Mind`s Eye ISBN: 0330513990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330513999 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1212 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: The Mind`s Eye ISBN: 0307272087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307272089 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2218 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: 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 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 paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or 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 Mind’s 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 person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: Mind`s Eye ISBN: 033050889X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330508896 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1818 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: The Mind`s Eye ISBN: 0739383914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739383919 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2564 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: 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 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 paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or 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 Mind’s 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 person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Автор: Sacks Oliver Название: The Mind`s Eye ISBN: 0739378031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739378038 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2222 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From the author of the best-selling "Musicophilia "(hailed as "luminous, original, and indispensable" by "The American Scholar"), an exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals--including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the score, and a neurobiologist born with crossed eyes who, late in life, suddenly acquires binocular vision, and how her brain adapts to that new skill. Most dramatically, Sacks gives us a riveting account of the appearance of a tumor in his own eye, the strange visual symptoms he observed, an experience that left him unable to perceive depth. In "The Mind's Eye, " Oliver Sacks explores some of the most fundamental facets of human experience--how we see in three dimensions, how we represent the world internally when our eyes are closed, and the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains find new ways of perceiving that create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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