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    The River of Consciousness
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    The River of Consciousness

    Written by Oliver Sacks

    Narrated by Dan Woren and Kate Edgar

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    About this audiobook

    From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.

    Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.

    Read by Dan Woren, with the Dedication and Foreword read by Kate Edgar

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9780804192347
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    The River of Consciousness
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    Oliver Sacks

    Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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    • 5/5
      A wonderful piece. It was bitter sweet to finish this book, knowing it would be the last of Oliver Sack's writings.
    • 5/5
      My only gripe about this book is the heartache I feel over the death of its author. Curious, empathic, polymathic, and eloquent in the extreme — he exemplified everything that a physician should hope to achieve. The world is colder and dimmer without you, Dr. Sacks.
    • 5/5
      Es genial . Es Motivador es innovador y abre tu mente a infimitad posibilidades. Recomendado