An Anthropologist On Mars
by Sacks, Oliver
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales is a 1995 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks consisting of seven medical case histories of individuals with neurological conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome.
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On Aug 27, 2013, CloggieDownunder said
An Anthropologist on Mars is the sixth book by neurologist Oliver Wolf Sacks and deals with seven intriguing case studies. The first is an artist who becomes completely colour-blind (cerebral achromatopsia) and details both the unimaginable impact this has on normal life, and the adaptation that can make life liveable. The second involves amnesia and looks at different ways of forming memory. The third deals with Tourette’s syndrome in a surgeon with a pilot’s licence, shows both the funny and the dark sides of this condition, and the effect of medications. The fourth examines the effect of regaining sight on a person who has been blind since childhood. The fifth involves seizures of reminiscence and examines what memory actually is. The sixth deals with an autistic savant artist, and the final case study is about the well-known Aspergian, Temple Grandin. It is this remarkable woman who, in explaining what it feels like to try to understand normal human behaviour, lends her phrase to the title, An Anthropologist on Mars. Grandin gives a fascinating insight into the autistic spectrum, explaining that autistic people Think in Pictures (the title of her own book). Occasionally Sacks is rather too generous with technical detail jargon, so the reader may be tempted to skim or skip. The footnotes enlarge on or update the text, the book is fully indexed and there is a bibliography for those interested in further reading. This book is interesting, occasionally scary and will make the reader appreciate the brain they have.
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An Anthropologist on Mars
by SACKS, Oliver
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- 1995
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 327pp. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. Top corners lightly bumped, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with creases and rubbing at the corners. Signed by Sacks with a small sketch of a stick figure on the title page. Seven medical case histories… Read more about this item Item Price
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Picador. 8vo., brick-red publisher's boards lettered in silver to spine; pictorial dust-jacket with an illustration by Scott Garrett; pp. [vii], viii-xvi, [i], 2-319, [i]; containing numerous sketches and full-colour illustrations throughout; aside from very light creasing and a miniscule dent to the lower board, a fine copy. First edition, with full number line 1-9, signed and dated … Read more about this item Item Price
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by Sacks, Oliver (Author)
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AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Sacks, Oliver (1933-2015)
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London: Picador, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed and dated by Oliver Sacks on the title page. Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which 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. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Anthropologist On Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales
Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN-13: 9780679437857
ISBN-10: 0679437851
Publication Date: 2/7/1995
Publisher: Knopf
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5.65 x 8.6 inches, 332 pages
Detailed and fascinating portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1995 Knopf FIRST edition of another great Sacks book! This copy is in NF/VG condition with only very minor wear along the back edges of the DJ,
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales.
by Oliver Sacks
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Sacks, Oliver
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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. xx, 328pp, 16pp of colour and b/w plates, bibliography, index. A stain at the upper fore-edge affects pp221-250. Cloth-backed papered boards in unevenly sunned dust-jacket. Tales of neurological disorder and creativity.. Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo. Item Price
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth printing. Octavo. Light scattered soiling, very good in very good dustwrapper. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. An interesting copy clearly well read by Bernarda Shahn, with her extensive manuscript annotations… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Oliver Sacks
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