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 An extraordinary mind an extraordinary person: Oliver Sacks has given us in his remarkable writings a broadened sense of what the human individual and the human mind is . His studies of various forms of mental disturbance are transmitted to us in [... more]
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R & B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and [... more]
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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]
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R & B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and [... more]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and ...
Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R & B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and [... more]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Author: Sacks Oliver Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1st Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 2007 [... more]
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