An Anthropologist on Mars (book review)
different, but not less…
Book review:
An Anthropologist on Mars:
Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
328 pages
If you don’t know about Temple Grandin, you should read An Anthropologist on Mars.
In his trademark style—crisp, intuitive, surprising, deeply empathic—
Oliver Sacks tells you as much as you’re capable of knowing
about seven different kinds of people who are different, but not less.
Temple Grandin—make that Dr. Temple Grandin—is an autistic animal scientist who has designed the infrastructure for half of the cattle processing facilities (feedlots and slaughterhouses) in the U.S. She has a lot of realistic and informed stuff to say about autism and the folks whose lives have been made different by this condition.
Sacks spends some time with Grandin and learns as much as he can.
You can read this book and do the same.
Autistic people are different, and they are oh so human.
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Book review: Forced Founders
by Woody Holton
The so-called “Founding Fathers”
weren’t the only ones
who helped to shape our independence…
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