Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.
Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work.From the Trade Paperback edition.
| ISBN: | 9780307365750 |
| Publication date: | 4th March 2011 |
| Author: | Oliver Sacks |
| Publisher: | Knopf Canada |
| Format: | Ebook |
| Primary Genre | Popular Science |
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Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.
Seeing Voices features in the following genres: Popular Science, Literary essays, Disability: social aspects, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication, Popular psychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science, Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Social and ethical issues, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics, Family and health, Health & Fitness, Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Self Help and Personal Development, Medical specialties, branches of medicine, Medicine and Nursing, Life sciences: general issues, Biology, life sciences
Ebook, Paperback. £25.20. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..
Seeing Voices was written by Oliver Sacks and published by Knopf Canada
£25.20. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..
