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Oliver Sacks
Explores the world of deafness and ponders the nature of human communication.
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Presents a journey into the history of deaf people, the (often outrageous) ways in which they were seen and treated in the past, and the new understanding that started to…
The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Musicophilia.
In an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary mind, the distinguished neurologist who wrote Awakenings offers an account of his youth as fascinating as his celebrated case histories. Overflowing with humor…
From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, Dr Sacks reflects on…
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…
Oliver Sacks’s compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.
In Musicophilia, he examines the powers…
Oliver Sacks, M.D.
The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
“A masterpiece’ W. H. Auden
The River of Consciousness is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime’s research into the way the brain works by the celebrated late neurologist Oliver Sacks.
A remarkable celebration of Sacks’s varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.
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Oliver Sacks turns his attention away from the human mind to investigate a fascinating and exotic Mexican province.
