An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

327 pages | first published 1995

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These are paradoxical tales, for neurological disease can conduct one to other modes of being that - however abnormal they may be to our way of thinking - may develop virtues and beauties of their own. The exploration of these individual lives is ...
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