Oliver Sacks M.D.
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. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of ... [... more]
Random House |
Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self
 From Amazon.co.uk: Stroke victims who think their limbs belong to someone else. Alzheimer's sufferers who believe their wives have been swapped. Blood clot victims convinced all their possessions have been replaced with inferior products. These are the [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
Oliver Sacks, PhD
Oliver Sacks is the author of nine books, including the acclaimed bestsellers The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, An Anthropolgist on Mars, and Awakenings, which inspired the Oscar-winning movie of the same name. He is clinical professor of ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
'Who Is Sylvia?' and Other Stories: Case Studies in ...
provocative sensitive: interesting personal and down to earth. Book reveals insights into everyone's hidden side. Gives everyone something to identify with without feeling guilty about our own craziness. You will not be able to put this book down!: [... more]
CDN$31.95
Amazon CA |
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and ...
From Amazon.com: The hand is, among other things, a complex symbol, representing both the creative and the prosaic. This blending of the spiritual and the mundane is what makes the hand unique, as it in turn makes us unique among animals. Neurologist [... more]
CDN$24.00
Amazon CA |
Migraine
Nicely written but misses the mark.: I like most of Oliver Sacks's books. I think "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars" are major contributions to the understanding of the human mind. I do have a [... more]
CDN$18.95
Amazon CA |
The Case of the Frozen Addicts
Compelling Reading: When I bought this book I didn't know what to expect - I thought it would be similar in style to Oliver Sacks' "Awakenings" (i.e. a series of case histories). While I enjoyed Awakenings I would have to say that this book is [... more]
CDN$17.95
Amazon CA |
Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and ...
From Amazon.com: Paul Erdös was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems [... more]
CDN$39.95
Amazon CA |
Homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau
Chronique amazon.fr: La médecine, depuis Hippocrate, a toujours eu recours aux histoires de cas pour présenter le tableau clinique des maladies. Au XIXe siècle, psychiatres et neurologues se sont longtemps distingués par leurs [... more]
CDN$54.95
Amazon CA |
Vintage Murakami
what could have been: For the last few months I have been waiting for this book to be released by the publisher. I searched the web for specific information about its contents, but found nothing official. I've read just about every short story and book [... more]
CDN$14.50
Amazon CA |
Visual Intelligence
From Amazon.com: Visual intelligence, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman writes, is the power that people use to "construct an experience of objects out of colors, lines, and motions." And what an underappreciated ability it is, too; despite [... more]
CDN$27.50
Amazon CA |
Continent
From Amazon.com: To those who say there's nothing new to be written or read, Jim Crace has responded. For this provocative collection of short stories, Crace created a whole new continent. Unnamed and unspecified, the continent nevertheless resonates [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
