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A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
<b>‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - <i>Observer</i></b> When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W Sacks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | 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
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
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
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed 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
Awakenings by Oliver W Sacks
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | 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
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$39.95 AUD
Category: Audio Books
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 extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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: Contemporary Thought
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
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
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
Migraine by Oliver W Sacks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | 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
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'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