An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

318 pages | first published 1995

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As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to ...
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