{"product_id":"9780804171007","title":"The River of Consciousness","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGratitude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMusicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, a 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (\u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Anthropologist on Mars\u003c\/i\u003e) in which he explored many now-familiar disorders--autism, Tourette syndrome, face blindness. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable experiences that shaped him (\u003ci\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Move\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGratitude\u003c\/i\u003e). In the pieces that comprise \u003ci\u003eThe River of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (many first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places), 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. \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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016250835184,"sku":"9780804171007","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804171007_p0.jpg?v=1769907823","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804171007","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}