Awakenings
de Oliver Sacks
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330269240
- ISBN 13
- 9780330269247
- Librería
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London England: Picador. Good. 1982. Revised. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0330269240 Paperback Paperback. Awakenings. Slight browning to pages through age. Slight foxing to back cover. Couple of small creases to cover. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize now extensively revised. This book is a neurologist's account of his experience with a so-called miracle drug with temporarily brought back to life the zombie-like sufferers from the epidemic of sleeping-sickness which swept the world in the 1920s. Dr. Sack writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetrations into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness in general. Illustrated. 339 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .
Sinopsis
Oliver Sacks is the author of Awakenings , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , and many other books, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize, a Polk Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in New York City, where he is a practicing neurologist. He recently accepted a new position at Columbia University.
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 106978
- Título
- Awakenings
- Autor
- Oliver Sacks
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Edición
- Revised
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0330269240
- ISBN 13
- 9780330269247
- Editorial
- Picador
- Lugar de publicación
- London England
- Fecha de publicación
- 1982
- Palabras clave
- Non, Fiction, Clinical, Observation, Miracle, Drug, Epidemic, Sleeping-Sickness, 1920s, Neurologist, s, Account, 0330269240
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