The River of Consciousness -- Oliver Sacks, Paperback

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The River of Consciousness -- Oliver Sacks, PaperbackFrom the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 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. "Curious, avid and thrillingly fluent." The New York Times Book Review In the pieces that comprise The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine,

and eerie artwork fills her sketchbook that she can't recall drawing

From anglerfish to zebras

less frequent workouts each week

She knows how to get the girl

The teen you love is in crisis

they haven't the slightest notion how to connect intimately with those they love

Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass

Interactive Self-Discovery: This isn't just a book to read--it's a book to do

and the thoughts

with its swamps and scammers and strange creatures (two- and four-legged)

Scientific studies on finch migrations and conservation

she gives over her seemingly impossible situation to God