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Seeing Voices

A Journey into the World of the Deaf

Oliver Sacks, M.D. Jonathan Davis Oliver Sacks

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English
Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
01 July 2019
Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount.

In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to categorise their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.

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Imprint:   Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 122mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   68g
ISBN:   9781529011470
ISBN 10:   1529011477
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015. Jonathan Davis is a critically acclaimed narrator and voiceover actor. He has narrated more than 350 audiobooks, including a variety of bestsellers and award-winners. Davis is a three-time recipient and 14-time nominee of the celebrated Audie Award. He is also active in the voiceover industry providing voice work for films, documentaries, video games and animation. Oliver Sacks was a physician, writer, and professor of neurology. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the poet laureate of medicine by The New York Times, Sacks is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings, which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. He died in 2015.

Reviews for Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf

'Seeing Voices is a manifesto, characteristically humane and impassioned; once more, Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face.' -- The Sunday Times 'Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness.' -- The Sunday Telegraph 'Empathetic, intelligent and compassionate.' -- The Guardian


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