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An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility…
On The Move: A Life

On The Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

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|February 23, 2016

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An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.”…
Neurotribes: The Legacy Of Autism And The Future Of Neurodiversity
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This New York Times –bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.   What is autism? A lifelong disability, or…
Musicophilia: Tales Of Music And The Brain
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What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no…
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From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move , a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and…
Awakenings

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

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|November 13, 2008

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Awakenings — which inspired the major motion picture — is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women…
Gratitude

Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

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|November 24, 2015

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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, and he shared this news in a New York Times essay that inspired readers all over the world: "I cannot pretend I am without…
Hallucinations

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

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|July 2, 2013

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From the bestselling author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , a provocative investigation into hallucinations--auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory--their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural…
The Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye

Oliver Sacks

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|October 4, 2011

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From the author of the #1 national bestselling Musicophilia comes a truly visionary book: an exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding new forms of perception to create worlds as complete and rich as…
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
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A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her…
L'homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau

L'homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau

Oliver Sacks

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|February 6, 2014

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Olivier Sacks décrit dans ce livre les affections les plus bizarres, celles qui atteignent un homme dans son corps, comme dans sa personnalité la plus intime et dans l'image qu'il a de lui-même. Il nous fait ainsi pénétrer dans un royaume peuplé de créatures…
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