The Resource The river of consciousness, Oliver Sacks
The river of consciousness, Oliver Sacks
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The item The river of consciousness, Oliver Sacks represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life. In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human."--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 237 pages
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Contents
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- Darwin and the meaning of flowers
- Speed
- Sentience : the mental lives of plants and worms
- The other road : Freud as neurologist
- The fallibility of memory
- Mishearings
- The creative self
- A general feeling of disorder
- The river of consciousness
- Scotoma : forgetting and neglect in science
- Isbn
- 9780385352567
- Label
- The river of consciousness
- Title
- The river of consciousness
- Statement of responsibility
- Oliver Sacks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences. That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life. In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human."--Dust jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-2015
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sacks, Oliver
- Dewey number
- 612.8/233
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QP411
- LC item number
- .S23 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Consciousness
- Neuropsychology
- Creative ability
- PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Consciousness
- Creative ability
- Neuropsychology
- Label
- The river of consciousness, Oliver Sacks
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Darwin and the meaning of flowers -- Speed -- Sentience : the mental lives of plants and worms -- The other road : Freud as neurologist -- The fallibility of memory -- Mishearings -- The creative self -- A general feeling of disorder -- The river of consciousness -- Scotoma : forgetting and neglect in science
- Control code
- ocn968690646
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 237 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385352567
- Lccn
- 2017000815
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)968690646
- Label
- The river of consciousness, Oliver Sacks
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Darwin and the meaning of flowers -- Speed -- Sentience : the mental lives of plants and worms -- The other road : Freud as neurologist -- The fallibility of memory -- Mishearings -- The creative self -- A general feeling of disorder -- The river of consciousness -- Scotoma : forgetting and neglect in science
- Control code
- ocn968690646
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 237 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385352567
- Lccn
- 2017000815
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)968690646
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