{"product_id":"the-river-of-consciousness-9780804171007","title":"The River of Consciousness","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGratitude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMusicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (\u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Anthropologist on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e) in which he explored many now-familiar disorders--autism, Tourette syndrome, face blindness. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable experiences that shaped him (\u003ci\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Move\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGratitude\u003c\/i\u003e). In the pieces that comprise \u003ci\u003eThe River of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (many first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places), Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age. The questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. \u003ci\u003eThe River of Consciousness \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804171007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Oliver Sacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643764666524,"sku":"9780804171007","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_642735c1-d2c3-4b1f-8fa3-2cef4719c6da.jpg?v=1603857228","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-river-of-consciousness-9780804171007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}