{"product_id":"9780385352567","title":"The River of Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eGratitude, On the Move, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Musicophilia,\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (\u003ci\u003eAwakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders—autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (\u003ci\u003eUncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. \u003ci\u003eThe River of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012486283504,"sku":"9780385352567","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385352567_p0.jpg?v=1763694268","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385352567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}