Overview
Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing learn to categorise their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.
Full Product Details
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.168kg
ISBN: 9780330523646
ISBN 10: 0330523643
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 July 2012
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Fascinating and richly rewarding--. Sacks is a profoundly wise observer. -- The Plain Dealer One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way. His breadth of understanding and expression seems limitless. -- Kansas City Star A remarkable book, penetrating, subtle, persuasive--. [It] will likely become a classic. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Seeing Voices is a manifesto, characteristically humane and impassioned; once more, Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face. * Sunday Times * Empathetic, intelligent and compassionate. * Guardian * A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language. * Independent * Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness. * Sunday Telegraph *
This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review<br> <br> Fascinating and richly rewarding--. Sacks is a profoundly wise observer. -- The Plain Dealer <br><br> One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way. His breadth of understanding and expression seems limitless. -- Kansas City Star <br><br> A remarkable book, penetrating, subtle, persuasive--. [It] will likely become a classic. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author Information
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten previous books, including most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire.
