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Oliver Sacks's Books
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A Leg to Stand OnDr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for...Read More
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A HatIn his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients...Read More
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Bend Bulletin, February 5, 2012
...At 13, an age when most boys want to learn the guitar, Gary Marcus decided he wanted to be a scientist. Twenty-five years later he had become one of the country?s best-known cognitive psychologists, with major papers and three general-interest books on...
Business Day, January 31, 2012
...thick on the ground these days, if [sic] is the alternative, I’d rather stick to the former. Oliver Sacks, in Mind’s Eye, managed to capture beautifully the balance between exposition of an illness and shared intimacy with the reader; of the way the...
Austin American Statesman, January 28, 2012
...of academia and general nonfiction, a tough target to hit. Neubauer cites authors such as Carl Sagan and Oliver Sacks as models. He is also a big fan of the controversial (yet devout) Jesuit geologist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and his...
Zimbio, January 18, 2012
...national concert artist Jourdan Urbach. This year, the IMNF is proud to honor renowned neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks. âWe celebrate his 40 years at Beth Abraham and honor his outstanding contributions in support of music therapy and the effect...
Christian Century, January 17, 2012
...cause substantial distress or interference in everyday living, the hoarding is pathological." In the style of neurologist Oliver Sacks, they explore the pathology of hoarding in ways that illuminate much larger questions about the meaning of possessions....
Christian Century, January 17, 2012
...cause substantial distress or interference in everyday living, the hoarding is pathological." In the style of neurologist Oliver Sacks, they explore the pathology of hoarding in ways that illuminate much larger questions about the meaning of possessions....
Burlington Press, January 13, 2012
...has been the subject of an award-winning 2010 HBO movie starring Claire Danes as Grandin. As noted physician-author Oliver Sacks wrote in the foreword to her 1995 book, "Thinking in Pictures," "Temple Grandin's voice came from a place which had never had...
Harriet: The Blog, October 6, 2011
...the whites.” The foreword by Brian Boyd is full of gems about Nabokov’s brain, such as this: “Oliver Sacks has told me how fascinated he was to learn that as a seven-year-old in the throes of fever Vladimir Nabokov lost his skills as a mathematical...
The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, October 3, 2011
...most helpful and interesting aspect was the literature I found. Some wonderful books by Temple Grandin, Daniel Tammet, Oliver Sacks et al; and some lovely vlogs and blog sites by autistic people.Specifically, reading about autism and neuroscience helped...
En Tequila Es Verdad, September 30, 2011
...And now I'm going to have to go hunt down his other books...Source MusicophiliaI dearly love Oliver Sacks. I dearly love music. I dearly loved Oliver Sacks talking about music. This book is a total treat. If you've ever read any of Oliver's work before...
A Kindle World blog, September 26, 2011
... Monday's Discount: $5.67 Monday's Daily Deal Price: $1.49 (79% off)"Oliver Sacks meets Getting Things Done." --- Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing BoingThe brain sciences ... "...developmental molecular biologist Medina...employs an...
BostInnovation.com, September 17, 2011
...matter the setting, each manager garnered success. Psychology The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks Brief Synopsis: Sacks, called “one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century” by the New York Times recounts the case...
American Consumer News, September 15, 2011
...interest leading to the success of recent books by Daniel J. Levitin, John M. Ortiz, Aniruddh D. Patel, Oliver Sacks, Michael H. Thaut, and others. Bencivelli’s distinctive contribution is a broad and inclusive approach, and an easy writing style...
Martin Widlake's Yet Another Oracle Blog, August 19, 2011
...the benefits from it that you can is a very healthy attitude. If I remember right it was Oliver Sacks in one of his books (“the man who mistook his wife for a hat” maybe) who describes a man with sever Tourette’s syndrome {which is more often all...
