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|  | Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 1168
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised & enlarged
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1400033535
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9781400033539
ASIN: 1400033535
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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 Buy one to read and one to share August 18, 2009
Low Man (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps this review comes a little late, but this revised and expanded edition has plenty to recommend it. Dr. Sacks has mined a long career to provide illustrations of the many ways music becomes a powerful force in our day to day lives. Especially for those of us touched by the often devastating complications of dementia in aging family and friends the examples of music as an efficacious therapy are very hopeful and inspiring.
Thanks to Oliver Sacks for opening this window into the mysterious world of the workings of the human brain, and doing so in such a way that the rest of us have a notion of the current state of the science of neurology.
Great August 9, 2009
Wesley A. Ornick (Morgantown, WV)
I love music, all aspects of it and to hear and read a neurologist's findings and stories of connectiveness associated with music, people's emotions and reactions -- very informative and paints a picture many, if not all can understand. Music is very underappreciated. When you get down to basic scales and progressions and read about how they affect different individuals' lives, it really turns into something else I never considered. A very informative and conscious-opening set of descriptions and accounts...loved it after seeing a program on public t.v. here highlighting the author's life and work.
Sounds good! June 2, 2009
Z. Rafii (Chicago, IL, USA)
Really interesting book. I work on music with relation to science so this book is really interesting for me. It has actually been recommended by one of my professors that Sacks actually referred to in the book. Besides, the stories Sacks is telling are really fascinating. I do recommend this book, for everybody who loves music. I have actually sent a french version to one of my friends in France.
Musicophillia May 29, 2009
Margaret McNicholl (Santa Clarita, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It gives multiple examples of an area that is not generally covered in neuropsychology. It provides multiple examples of various types of neurological disorder having to do with music. If you've ever experienced musical hallucinations, a deterioration in he appreciation of music or any of the other conditions noted it will help with diagnostic clarification. Since I do evaluations of people I find it a handy reference.
 Painful to read unfortunately May 24, 2009
Mark Ritchie (san jose, ca, usa)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is so poorly written as to make it's fascinating subject matter almost uninteresting. Oliver Sacks is so narcissistic, self absorbed and self referential that is it a distraction. Keep looking for the ultimate book on music and the brain.
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