Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

By Oliver Sacks

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ISBN: 9780330523592

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Binding: Paperback

Number of Pages: 448

Publication Date: 02-Sep-11

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From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. ‘A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders’ – Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to differ

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. Born in London and educated at Oxford, he held positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and was 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. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' - Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to differ