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Diane Ackerman

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1) One hundred names for love: a stroke, a marriage, and the language of healing

Author

Ackerman, Diane

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio CD

Description

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Ackerman chronicles her novelist husband Paul West's heroic battle to reclaim words and mobility and her tailoring of West's speech therapy to match his spectacular vocabulary and unique intelligence.

2) Cultivating delight: a natural history of my garden

Author

Ackerman, Diane

Physical Desc

261 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

3) Jaguar of sweet laughter: new & selected poems

Author

Ackerman, Diane

Physical Desc

xv, 254 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

4) A natural history of the senses

Author

Ackerman, Diane

Physical Desc

xix, 331 pages ; 20 cm

Language

English

Description

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Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. Delightful - gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.