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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Sacks, Oliver
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- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1400040817
- ISBN 13
- 9781400040810
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition. 8vo, 381pp. Orange boards with silver lettering on spine, illustrated jacket. Near fine, lightly bumped and with some pushing to heel in like jacket with price sticker to rear panel. Signed by Sacks on the ffep. Important collection from the late British neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks. The group of stories and studies attempts to broaden understanding of the psychological aspects of music such as therapy, absolute pitch, phobias, hallucinations, and others.
Synopsis
Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music.Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4645
- Title
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, 381pp. Orange boards with silver lettering on spine, illustrated jacket. Near fine, lightly bumped and with some pushing to
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400040817
- ISBN 13
- 9781400040810
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
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- Fine
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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