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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
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
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
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
$34.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. Oliver Sacks No wri ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 NZD
Category: Self-help
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
$54.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication -- even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex sw ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
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, illnes ...Show more
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category
For centuries, physicians have been fascinated by the visual hallucinations, or auras, which often precede a migraine and which are similar to those induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. This study of migraine has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter, illustrated with startling full- ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.98 NZD
Category: Psychology | 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
$38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
'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
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview by Oliver Sacks
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser. | Reading Level: good
An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers. Oliver Sacks--called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New York Times--illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly accl ...Show more
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
$15.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
$13.95 NZD
Category: No Category
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
