{"product_id":"2940169180749","title":"The Mind's Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Mind's Eye, \u003c\/i\u003eOliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSacks explores some very strange paradoxes-people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by \"tongue vision.\" He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery-or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mind's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person's eyes, or another person's mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179471618288,"sku":"2940169180749","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169180749_p0.jpg?v=1763674614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169180749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}