An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

327 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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These are paradoxical tales, for neurological disease can conduct one to other modes of being that - however abnormal they may be to our way of thinking - may develop virtues and beauties of their own. The exploration of these individual lives is ...

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Moods

informative 94%
reflective 62%
inspiring 31%
challenging 26%
emotional 19%
hopeful 9%
funny 6%
sad 6%
adventurous 5%
lighthearted 2%
mysterious 2%
relaxing 1%
tense 1%

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medium 51%
slow 47%
fast 1%

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