{"product_id":"musicophilia-tales-of-music-and-the-brain-revised-and-expanded-edition-1400033535","title":"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1400033535\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacks, Oliver\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER  With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition.Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind. -The New York TimesIn Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls musical misalignments. Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with amusia, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music.Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51327969362208,"sku":"NEW1400033535","price":13.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/614qC0gkMkL.jpg?v=1773176129","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/musicophilia-tales-of-music-and-the-brain-revised-and-expanded-edition-1400033535","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}