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Revised and Expanded §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. In Musicophilia , he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.§

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology

• Full title: Musicophilia
• Subtitle: Tales of Music and the Brain
• Author: Oliver Sacks
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9781400033539
• ISBN: 1400033535
• ID: 01414350
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Weight: 482 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 202 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. September 2008

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