With 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. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgetta...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262013499)
For more than half the nations history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: North Atlantic Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781556436727)
Migraine Art includes more than 300 powerful illustrations and paintings created by migraine sufferers from around the world. It provides a thoroughly unique window into the subjective world of the migraine sufferer. The idea of collecting mig...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people to show that music can calm and organize, torment and heal. This work tells stories that alter our conception of who we are and how we function...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Sep-2008, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc), ISBN-13: 9781400033539)
Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and everyday people, the author of Awakenings explores the complex human response to music, detailing the full range of human reactions to music, what goes on and can go...Loe edasi...
What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force?...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
In chapters examining depressives and musical dreamers, this book succeeds not only in articulating the musical experience but in locating it in the human brain. It shows that music is not simply about sound, but also movement, visualization, and sil...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2007, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780739357392)
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and everyday people, the author of Awakenings explores the complex human response to music, detailing the full range of human reactions to music, what goes on and can go wrong w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2007, Microfilm, Kirjastus: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781400040810)
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and everyday people, the author of Awakenings explores the complex human response to music, detailing the full range of human reactions to music, what goes on and can go wrong w...Loe edasi...
What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force?...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-1991, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780718134808)
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Stephen Wiltshire is autistic and this affliction may well prove to be integral to the unique manner in which he perceives the world. This book contains a selection of drawings Stephen made when visiting three cities - Amsterdam, Leningrad and Venic...Loe edasi...
