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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Amazon.com Review: Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant [... more]
$25.00
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Awakenings
Amazon.com Review: It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if [... more]
$15.95
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The Island of the Colorblind
Amazon.com Review: In his books An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks details the lives of patients isolated by neurological disorders, shedding light on our common humanity and the ways in which we perceive [... more]
$24.00
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other ...
The Reader Who mistook Dr. Sacks as a Patient.: This book is written in an unusual prose; one that is off-putting in the very beginning, but as the author establishes his pace, the writing improves drastically; as does the story line. Actually, the [... more]
$15.00
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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Amazon.com Review: The works of neurologist Oliver Sacks have a special place in the swarm of mind-brain studies. He has done as much as anyone to make nonspecialists aware of how much diversity gets lumped under the heading of "the human mind." [... more]
$14.95
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Oaxaca Journal (National Geographic Directions)
Mispickel! Orpiment! Realgar!: Dr. Sacks accompanied a group of botanical friends on a trip to see, catalogue, draw, and take delight in the unparalleled variety of ferns in Oaxaca, Mexico. His resulting journal is a meditation on Zapotec culture, [... more]
$20.00
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Amazon.com Review: Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant [... more]
$14.95
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Vintage Sacks
An introduction to Sacks: I heard Dr. Oliver Sacks speak on BookTV recently. What caught my interest was his obvious love for science and the warm, humoruos manner in which he presented the studies and experiments borne of his curiosity. Looking at the [... more]
$10.95
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Migraine
Fascinating: I found the book helpful and interesting. I don't know why some reviewer's found it so difficult. It is true that he describes many case studies and that only some of those would coincide with any one person's experience (thank goodness, I'd [... more]
$15.95
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The Best American Science Writing 2003 (Best American ...
Okay, but you can do better.: To give you the viewpoint from which I'm coming from, I read Scientiic American, Discover, American Scientist, New Scientist and two journals of mathematics, and still enjoy reading a Springer Verlag book. I am a science [... more]
$13.95
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The Island of the Colorblind
Amazon.com Review: In his books An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks details the lives of patients isolated by neurological disorders, shedding light on our common humanity and the ways in which we perceive [... more]
$14.95
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Seeing Voices
"...the deaf have something to teach us.": In this extraordinary study, Dr. Sacks gives the general reader a penetrating insight into the world of the deaf. In his acclaimed "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", as a practicing [... more]
$13.95
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