Description
| Product ID: | 9780330523646 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Seeing Voices |
| Subtitle: | A Journey into the World of the Deaf |
| Authors: | Author: Oliver Sacks |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Disability: social aspects, Disability: social aspects |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. <p><b>'<i>Seeing Voices</i> is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – <i>Evening Standard</i></b><br><br> Imaginative and insightful,<i> Seeing Voices</i> by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar – for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to categorize their respective worlds – and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-07-05 |
