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With Seeing Voices Dr Sacks launches us on a journey into the world of the deaf – which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere. ‘Oliver Sacks, blessed with an understanding heart and poetic voice, speaks the language of tContinue
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lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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The Language of the Deaf
Calling deafness “one of the most desperate of human calamities,” Dr. Johnson was expressing the classic “pathological” view of deafness: it is a physical defect. Unable to hear or speak, the deaf are usually thought to be cut off from language, and ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- eBook 320 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0330537156
- ISBN-13: 9780330537155
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Pub date: Jun 16, 2011
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780330537155 | eBook | $14.38 | -- | The Book Depository |
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