An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780345805881
ISBN-13 : 0345805887
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Download or read book An Anthropologist on Mars written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.


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