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An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales
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An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales

Author: Oliver W Sacks
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1996, ©1995.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Vintage Books edView all editions and formats
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The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Oliver W Sacks
ISBN: 0679756973 : 9780679756972
OCLC Number: 34359253
Notes: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1995.
Description: xix, 327 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Contents: The case of the colorblind painter -- The last hippie -- A surgeon's life -- To see and not see -- The landscape of his dreams -- Prodigies -- An anthropologist on Mars.
Responsibility: Oliver Sacks.

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The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white.

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