Changes to Seeing Voices (Vintage) by Oliver Sacks

Shelfari edited the subjects of Seeing Voices (Vintage) 2 weeks ago.

Added the subject: Subjects > Professional and Technical > Medical > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Neurology
Added the subject: Subjects > Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Sign Language
Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Special Groups > Disabled
Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology
Added the subject: Subjects > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Neurology

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Shelfari edited the first edition of Seeing Voices (Vintage) Friday, February 5 2010.

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Shelfari edited the classification of Seeing Voices (Vintage) Monday, January 18 2010.

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Laura and Eric edited the books that influenced this book of Seeing Voices (Vintage) Monday, December 21 2009.

Added When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf
Added The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education (Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series, Vol. 5)
Added Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard

Laura and Eric edited the first sentence of Seeing Voices (Vintage) Monday, December 21 2009.

Three years ago I knew nothing of the situation of the deaf, and never imagined that it could cast light on so many realms, above all, on the realm of language.

Shelfari edited the description of Seeing Voices (Vintage) Monday, August 3 2009.

"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks <is> one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices , Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."

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Shelfari edited the contributors of Seeing Voices (Vintage) Friday, July 24 2009.

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