The River of Consciousness

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Call Number: 612.8 Sa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Biology / Sacks, Oliver
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

"A Borzoi book."
Darwin and the meaning of flowers -- Speed -- Sentience: the mental lives of plants and worms -- The other road: Freud s neurologist -- The fallibility of memory -- Mishearings -- The creative self -- A general feeling of disorder -- The river of consciousness -- Scotoma: forgetting and neglect in science.
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.

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