Description
| Product ID: | 9780330508902 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Mind's Eye |
| Authors: | Author: Oliver Sacks |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Psychology, Psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat describes how we experience the visual world. <p><b>How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted?<br></b><br> In <i>The Mind’s Ey</i>e, 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 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 – and <i>The Mind’s Eye</i> is testament to the myriad ways that we, as humans, are capable of rising to this challenge.<br><br><b>‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ – <i>Observer </i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-09-02 |
