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Seeing Voices


<p>Like <b>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat</b>, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.&nbsp;&nbsp;In <b>Seeing Voices</b>, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect—a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. <b>Seeing Voices</b> is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."</p> <p>Covers a history of the deaf, the battle for acceptance in a hearing world and sign language as communication. </p>

Author(s): Oliver Sacks  

ISBN 10: 0375704078
ISBN 13: 9780375704079
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Publication: November 2000
Edition: Reprint
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