{"product_id":"the-river-of-consciousness-9780804171007","title":"The River of Consciousness","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, \u003c\/i\u003ea 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\u003e\"Curious, avid and thrillingly fluent.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the pieces that comprise \u003ci\u003eThe River of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Sacks was a physician, writer, and professor of neurology. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the \"poet laureate of medicine\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Sacks is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMusicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e (which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter), \u003ci\u003eOn the Move\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGratitude\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. He died in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626576384274,"sku":"9780804171007","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14002e00-8dc9-4734-a9f8-dca0f7b8ac7a.jpg?v=1732661856","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-river-of-consciousness-9780804171007","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}