In his books An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks details the lives of patients isolated by neurological disorders, shedding light on our common humanity and the ways in which we perceive the world around us. Now he looks at the effects of physical isolation in The Island of the Colorblind. On this journey, he carried with him the intellectual curiousity, kind understanding, and unique vision he has so consistently demonstrated.
Guide to Letter Writing This book will help you to write better letters at work and at home. It will open your eyes to the effects that well-written letters can create, and it will show you exactly how to produce these effects. It is a book about communication: about the vital two-way flow between people that goes on every day of our lives. It deals with words and the way they can be put together on paper. There are words which can create magical effects; words which, married in one startling sentence, can evoke just the response you want. In these pages you will learn how to use them.
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.
