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Author | : Susan Schaller |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520959310 |
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.
Author | : Susan Schaller |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520274911 |
Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1991.
Author | : Susan Schaller |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780520202658 |
"A beautiful and meticulous study of a languageless man and of Schaller's patient, dedicated and brilliantly conceived efforts to make contact with him and to introduce him to language." --from the forword by Oliver Sacks.
Author | : Susan Schaller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words."A Man without Words" vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language.
Author | : Oliver Sacks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0684853949 |
Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
Author | : Dr. Guy Leschziner |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1250272378 |
In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us. Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable? The Man Who Tasted Words shows that what we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning—the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance—is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control. In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner explores how our nervous systems define our worlds and how we can, in fact, be victims of falsehoods perpetrated by our own brains. In his moving and lyrical chronicles of lives turned upside down by a disruption in one or more of their five senses, he introduces readers to extraordinary individuals, like one man who actually “tasted” words, and shows us how sensory disruptions like that have played havoc, not only with their view of the world, but with their relationships as well. The cases Leschziner shares in The Man Who Tasted Words are extreme, but they are also human, and teach us how our lives and what we perceive as reality are both ultimately defined by the complexities of our nervous systems.
Author | : J. V. Jones |
Publisher | : Aspect |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2001-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0759520208 |
Volume 2 of the Book of Words series, is a fantasy adventure where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.
Author | : Katherine Woodbury |
Publisher | : Peaks Island Press |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2009-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452300984 |
A lighthearted look at the critical events in Jane Austen's most famous work from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Later accounts have too often transformed Darcy into the stereotypical alpha male of Regency romances. Within the pages of this novella, he endeavors to correct that popular misunderstanding.
Author | : Osho |
Publisher | : Osho Media International |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0880506113 |
The book offers a radically different approach to life and to seeing the world. Short excerpts from Osho are selected to inspire, to provoke, and to trigger a self-reflection that leads to change. It is easy to read but perhaps difficult to digest . . . in essence, it is a meditation book! "The truth that you will find — you will be surprised — is nowhere written, cannot be written. It is impossible to write it. It has never been uttered by anybody and it is not going to be uttered by anybody." You are looking at a bit of magic here. It is as though the vast ocean is contained in a very small volume. Open this book anywhere and you come upon such a depth of wisdom, such utter truth, that even just a sentence can be the start of a new way of looking at life, a new way of living life to the fullest. This is a lovely gift to yourself or to share with a friend. "I teach you to be authentic, integrated individuals with immense self-respect." — Osho
Author | : Kurt Vonnegut |
Publisher | : Dial Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0525510133 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions. Praise for A Man Without a Country “[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”–Los Angeles Times “Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.”–The New York Times Book Review “Filled with [Vonnegut’s] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity.”–Chicago Tribune “Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity.”–The Australian “Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family’s legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism.”–Studs Terkel