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Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Picador 2008Edition: Rev. and expanded [ed.]Description: xv, 425 p. ; 20 cm. - pbkISBN:
  • 9780330418386 (pbk.) :
  • 0330418386
  • 9780330418386
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781
Contents:
From the best-selling author of 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat', this book explores the ability of music to arouse, inspire and comfort us. Sacks explores this phenomenon through various unusual case studies, including that of a man struck by lightning who subsequently became obsessed with Chopin.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 781 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R11714M0499

Previous ed.: New York: Knopf; London: Picador, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-409) and index.

From the best-selling author of 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat', this book explores the ability of music to arouse, inspire and comfort us. Sacks explores this phenomenon through various unusual case studies, including that of a man struck by lightning who subsequently became obsessed with Chopin.

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