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 |
Oliver Sacks Collection: Awakenings, a Leg to Stand on, ...
Author: Oliver Sacks Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1984 [... more]
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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 |
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
 DIVIn his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, Richard Dawkins asks, What is it about science that really gets your blood running? The authors of the twenty-nine pieces chosen for this volume all offer eclectic, provocative [... more]
$0.67
A1 Books |
A Short History of Medicine
Great Overview: I'm neither a physician nor in the medical field, but find the history of medical science interesting. This book is well written, keeps the reader engaged, and provides an accurate overview. I highly recommend it. Believe the title - it [... more]
$10.00
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The Man Who Forgot How to Read: A Memoir
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "THE AUTHOR & I HAVE KNOWLEDGE BY EXPERIENCE, AND NO KNOWLEDGE BY DESCRIPTION CAN MATCH THIS.": Five-and-one-half years ago I almost died during brain tumor surgery. Going into brain surgery, you would [... more]
$19.95
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Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young ...
A mystery and memoir that reads like a great novel: I saw the Library Journal starred review that compared the Shapiro to Oliver Sacks (my favorite writer) and decided to pick up Delivering Doctor Amelia, what a great read! The book is structured around [... more]
$24.00
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Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
Book Description: Inside your heads there is an amazing labor saving device; better than a washing machine or a vacuum cleaner. Your brain releases you from the everyday chores of recognizing the things in the world around you, allowing you to [... more]
$84.95
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Oliver Sacks.(Interview): An article from: Queen's Quarterly
Author: Eric Friesen Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 11 Publication Date: 2008-09-22 Release Date: 2008-12-08 [... more]
$9.95
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Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf, ...
Author: Oliver. SACKS Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1989 [... more]
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdos ...
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
$14.00
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes ...
Great look into a little-known career: (Crossposted from LibraryThing) Phenomenal book! The author covers a fascinating career that a very small percentage of us are privileged to peek into. She discusses it with humor, great anecdotes, and gravity (when [... more]
$14.95
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