Oliver Sacks

Musicophilia

Tales of Music and the Brain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• New edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780330523592
• ISBN-10: 0330523597
• Artikelnr.: 33115120

Autorenporträt

Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. Born in London and educated at Oxford, he held positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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