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The River of Consciousness (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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The River of Consciousness (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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List price R614
Loot Price R514
Discovery Miles 5 140
You Save R100 (16%)
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Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of
The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The
bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who
Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating
case histories about people living with neurological conditions at
the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science
was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated
by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That
wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this
book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human
experience but of all life. In The River of Consciousness, Dr.
Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine,
neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and
creative heroes - above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For
Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age;
the questions they explored - the meaning of evolution, the roots
of creativity, and the nature of consciousness - lie at the heart
of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness
demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected
connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing,
timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human.
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