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An Anthropologist on Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W Sacks
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - 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 a ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver W Sacks
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage
"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 were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sa ...Show more
Migraine by Oliver W Sacks
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage
"Balanced, authoritative . . . brilliant." --"The London Times" "Written by one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century, Migraine . . . should be read as much for its brilliant insights into the nature of our mental functioning as for its discussion of the migraine." --"The New York Times ...Show more
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W Sacks
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait ...Show more
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver W. Sacks
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace.Drawn to the ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver W Sacks
Category: Science | Series: Vintage
With compassion and insight, Dr. Oliver Sacks again illuminates the mysteries of the brain by introducing us to some remarkable characters, including Pat, who remains a vivacious communicator despite the stroke that deprives her of speech, and Howard, a novelist who loses the ability to read. Sacks inve ...Show more
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