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A Leg to Stand on by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
'Sacks has written a book about a leg his leg but it is also a story about the nature of selfhood' New York Review of Books When OIiver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$12.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
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 and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$15.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
Man Who MIstook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$12.99 AUD
Category: Health
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...Show more
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed ...Show more
On the Move : A Life by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with h ...Show more
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
$12.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling author and "one of the greatest clinical writers of the twentieth century" (New York Times) explores the world of deafness and ponders the nature of human communication.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but utterly absorbing. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals suffering fro ...Show more