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From the best-selling author of Appreciation, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that presents Oliver Sacks' keen engagement with powerful and seminal ideas of individual endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, awareness, and experience. Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by all for the remarkable neurological circumstance histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) where he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders - autism, Tourette's symptoms, face blindness, savant symptoms. He was also a memoirist who wrote with integrity and laughter about the exceptional and weird encounters and encounters that designed him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Appreciation). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, experienced a deep familiarity not only with literature and medication but with botany, pet animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, viewpoint, and psychology. The River of Awareness is one of two books Sacks was focusing on up to his death, and it discloses his potential to make unexpected connections, his large enjoyment in knowledge, and his unceasing, ageless project to understand what makes us human.
