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 their...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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Wicked Local Duxbury, November 18, 2009
...Thomas Mallon says, “ If the title of Joshua Kendall’s fine new biography of Roget has a clinical Oliver Sacks feel, the material pretty much justifies it.” Books will be available for purchase and signing. Free tickets will be available at the...
Observer, November 15, 2009
...Berlin, in addition to the more predictable essays from the likes of Seamus Heaney (on Thomas Flanagan) and Oliver Sacks (on Francis Crick). Some may deplore the American bias, or the omissions, such as no essay by Kingsley Amis on Philip Larkin. Set...
Guardian.co.uk, November 15, 2009
...Berlin, in addition to the more predictable essays from the likes of Seamus Heaney (on Thomas Flanagan) and Oliver Sacks (on Francis Crick). Some may deplore the American bias, or the omissions, such as no essay by Kingsley Amis on Philip Larkin. Set...
stuff.co.nz, October 15, 2009
...of people's voices.' Last year, at the World Science festival in New York City, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks delivered a lecture called Music and the Brain. The author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat collaborated with the...
Toledoblade.com, September 21, 2009
...lifetime.Other speakers in the series have included Nobel Prize-winning authors Toni Morrison and Elie Wiesel, neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, and environmentalist Robert Kennedy, Jr...
USAgNet, September 13, 2009
...Michelangelo Antonioni, primatologist Jane Goodall, novelists Toni Morrison and Eudora Welty, poets Octavio Paz and Adrienne Rich, physician Oliver Sacks and actor John Cleese. More from this state at...
Suite101.com, September 12, 2009
...A Neurologist Examines the Relationship Between Music and the Brain © Sarah Canice Funke Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks uses his expertise to address a topic that has become quite popular over the years: the relationship between music and the...
Consumer Reports, September 9, 2009
...Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and best-selling author, has spent the last 40 years probing the mysteries of the brain and chronicling them in case stories. Sacks is perhaps best known for...
Cornell University, September 9, 2009
...Michelangelo Antonioni, primatologist Jane Goodall, novelists Toni Morrison and Eudora Welty, poets Octavio Paz and Adrienne Rich, physician Oliver Sacks and actor John Cleese...
Dazed Digital, August 27, 2009
...reading this thing, the prose is incredible but on tour it's better to read non-fiction. Musicophilia, an Oliver Sacks book, basically about all the senses of music, relating all these bizarre neurological disorders to do with how the brain processes...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 23, 2009
...the Dog in the Night-Time,' Elizabeth Moon's 'The Speed of Dark,' Jonathan Lethem's 'Motherless Brooklyn' and Oliver Sacks' factual medical tales: stories of divergent tones, but all about people who struggle mightily through and with their compulsions...
Harpers Magazine, July 28, 2009
...By Scott Horton Columbia University Professor Oliver Sacks is probably the country?s best known neurologist. But his greatest talent may be his ability to make the complexities of neurological disorders understandable to laymen while portraying the...
Library Journal, July 17, 2009
...magazines. Another health-related art book, Asylum (MIT, Sept.), with photographs by architect Christopher Payne and an essay by Oliver Sacks, documents 70 abandoned mental hospitals in 30 states. This book will appeal to anyone who's ever wanted to jump...
Guardian Unlimited, July 13, 2009
...really interest me now, especially neuroscience, which has been something that has fascinated me ever since I read Oliver Sacks's case studies.' Reynolds tells me he read in New Scientist recently about how the brain teeters on the brink of chaos all the...
Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2009
...Today, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks turns 76. His most recent book, 2007's "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" is, we wrote in our review, "not so much a greatest-hits collection as a...
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, July 2, 2009
...'Musical Minds,' last night's season premiere of 'Nova' on PBS, is based on the neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks' most recent book, 'Musicophilia,' a collection of case studies of people whose brains have unusual relationships to music, cases in which, as...
University College London, June 22, 2009
...the literature of general practice?. His recent memoir Suburban Shaman: Tales from Medicine?s Frontline, was described by Oliver Sacks as ?a beautifully written, devastatingly honest, and often very funny, account of an audacious and adventurous...
Guardian Unlimited, June 18, 2009
...independents. The award pits Mary Ann Shaffer's novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society against Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia, Diana Athill's memoir Somewhere Towards the End against Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. 'They're not the...
Newswise, June 13, 2009
...world would appear in all its glorious dimensions.' The book includes a foreword by renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, who wrote about Barry in his award-winning 2006 New Yorker article, 'Stereo Sue.' 'Fixing My Gaze will offer inspiration for...
Interest!ALERT, June 12, 2009
...world would appear in all its glorious dimensions.' The book includes a foreword by renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, who wrote about Barry in his award-winning 2006 New Yorker article, 'Stereo Sue.' 'Fixing My Gaze will offer inspiration for...
Ravalli Republic, June 2, 2009
...Readers first heard of the author in an article that appeared in the New Yorker: Stereo Sue by Oliver Sacks. (Oliver Sacks is the brilliant doctor and author who wrote about some interesting cases that have been turned into movies, such as...
Guardian Unlimited, May 23, 2009
...or a fox, is a mould-smashing one-off, usually an original, and probably quite undisciplined, writer. Differents include Dostoevsky, Oliver Sacks, Naomi Klein, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell and Atul Gawande. As readers, we may be better satisfied, in the...
Daily Nexus, April 22, 2009
...Oliver Sacks - deemed the poet laureate of medicine by The New York Times - will speak at Campbell Hall tonight at 7:30. UCSBs Arts & Lectures, with support from...
Addict3d.org, March 28, 2009
...that we interact with ourselves and others. Medina's approach to the subject combines the best aspects of Oliver Sacks and Getting Things Done, making the book into something that's part manifesto and part education. The BrainRules.net site features a...
Santa Barbara Independent, March 22, 2009
...Lecture by neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Where: UCSB Campbell Hall, 574 Mesa Rd., Santa Barbara Cost: $10 - $20 Age limit: Not available Categories: Lectures Description: Sacks, one of the great medical writers of all...
The Bookseller, March 1, 2009
...John Banville has signed up for two detective novels under his pseudonymn Benjamin Black, bought from Ed Victor; Oliver Sacks will write The Mind's Eye, a book about how we perceive the world, bought from Andrew Wylie of the Wylie Agency; and Peter...
Real Change News, February 26, 2009
...behavior. Autism made school and social life hard, but it made animals easy, she wrote. She told neurologist Oliver Sacks that, around neurotypical people, she feels like an anthropologist on Mars a description that became the title for a Sacks...
Guardian Unlimited, February 13, 2009
...a chapter on the pointlessness of IQ tests, and goes out of his way to be scathing about Oliver Sacks - or at least he would if his prose ever rose to scathing. What's remarkable is that Tammet's many wanderings seem always measured and logical. His...
The Scotsman, February 3, 2009
...the family home in Hampstead, north London, dispensing 'food, sharp wit and encouragement'. Among them were Beryl Bainbridge, Oliver Sacks and Jonathan Miller. According to Miller, this was the group originally given the name 'the chattering classes'.But...
Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 9, 2009
...of what makes his books such a delight. Along with writers like Richard Preston ('The Hot Zone') and Oliver Sacks ('Awakenings'), Gladwell makes scientific thought irresistible. All throughout 'Outliers,' he defines and redefines exactly what an outlier...
Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 4, 2009
...what makes his past books such a delight. Along with writers like Richard Preston (The Hot Zone) and Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), Gladwell makes scientific thought irresistible. All throughout Outliers, he defines and redefines exactly what an...
Sentinel Tribune, December 19, 2008
...and was an early proponent of the integration of psychiatry and religion. Among the previous award winners is Oliver Sacks, whose book 'Awakenings,' about his work with catatonic victims of an encephalitis epidemic, became a 1990 film starring Robin...
The Times, December 16, 2008
...a chorus based on ... the march from Handel's Rinaldo. Far-fetched? No more so than an incident in Oliver Sacks's riveting book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. He recounts how he once dreamt some anguished German songs that he didn't...
New Yorker, December 15, 2008
...Random House; $17). The Life of the Skies, by Jonathan Rosen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $24). Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks (Knopf; $26). Only Love Can Break Your Heart, by David Samuels (New Press; $26.95). Let?s See, by Peter Schjeldahl (Thames &...
Avi Solomon, October 22, 2009
...religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality Papercraft Wing Commander spaceships Art from Basil Wolverton's Bible Brain Rules: Oliver Sacks meets GETTING THINGS DONE, paperback ships, DVD goes free Studio portraits of Mumbai's itinerant...
Ask MetaFilter, October 21, 2009
...Square (Thinking Differently about Leadership) by Susan and Thomas Kuczmarski Musicophilia (Tales of Music and the Brain) by Oliver Sacks Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? by Peter Walsh A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle Human, The Science Behind What...
Classical Musings, October 8, 2009
...Cunningham will be David Sogg, PSO bassoonist.Mar. 2, 2010: "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks. Joining J. Cunningham will be Jeffrey Turner, PSO bassist Apr. 27, 2010: "First Nights" Five Musical Premieres" by Thomas Kelly....
The Book Bench, October 7, 2009
...Will there be a Huff-bump for Carl Honore’s “In Praise of Slowness”? The Federal Trade Commission’s new endorsement guidelines hold print book reviews and books blogs to different standards. Germans probably won’t be reading”The Lost...
ResourceShelf, September 25, 2009
...his early life, the importance of the Falklands War and why he likes drawing penguins (1987). + Neurologist Oliver Sacks and composer Michael Nyman discuss the process of turning Sacks’ medical anecdote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat into an...
A Striped Armchair, September 10, 2009
...a scientific mystery is for the patient a personal tragedy. All of that being said, Ramachandran is not Oliver Sacks, and I wouldn’t say Phantoms in the Brain is perfect. Some of it felt almost uncomfortably derivative, from a few of the cutesy...
A Striped Armchair, August 27, 2009
...reviews for a bit. That being said, today I shall tell you about how incredible Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks , Tree by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady , and Deep Economy by Bill McKibben all are. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver...
CiteULike: Everyone's library, August 26, 2009
...Jacob Bronowski, Peter Medawar, Jonathan Kingdon, Richard Leakey, Roger Lewin, Donald Johnson, Maitland Edey, Stephen Gould, John Bonner, Oliver Sacks, Lewis Thomas, James Watson, Lewis Wolpert, Julian Huxley, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Richard...
nunblog, August 19, 2009
...read of his life. This book, too, now features a number of bookmarked spots for leisurely rereading. Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks). Subtitle is "Tales of Music and the Brain." Need I say more? Hiking the Camino: 500 Miles with Jesus (Fr. Dave Pivonka):...
KIKO'S HOUSE, June 8, 2009
...of the war to a book on the secret bombing campaign in Cambodia to three fictional accounts. LINK . OLIVER SACKS' ' MUSICOPHILIA ' (3/30/08) It is a testament to the complexity of the brain that despite decades of research we still have relatively little...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], June 7, 2009
...free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf Author Oliver Sacks Country United States Language English Subject(s) Deaf Studies , Sign Language Publisher University of...
The Writer’s Coin, May 14, 2009
...mirror therapy as a way to help relieve phantom-limb pain. This reminded me of why I love reading Oliver Sacks so much, especially his The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . This may sound too scienc-y to some, but it’s a fantastic look at how our...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], May 13, 2009
...with engaging prose, "A General Theory of Love" has been compared to the work of Stephen Pinker and Oliver Sacks. Since its first publication, the book has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Latvian, Croatian, and Farsi....
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, May 11, 2009
...emotional investment to improve your storytelling, was joined by several colleagues, including Dawn Raffel , Sheila Kohler , Sasha Troyen , Oliver Sacks , Brigit Hughes , and Joanna Torrey . And those are just the parties we got pictures from—we also...
KIKO'S HOUSE, May 11, 2009
...of the war to a book on the secret bombing campaign in Cambodia to three fictional accounts. LINK . OLIVER SACKS' ' MUSICOPHILIA ' (3/30/08) It is a testament to the complexity of the brain that despite decades of research we still have relatively little...
New York Social Diary -, May 4, 2009
...Prize-winners Harold Varmus, Frank Wilczek, James Watson, David Gross and Sir Paul Nurse, as well as renowned neuroscientist Oliver Sacks and environmentalist Bill McKibben. Complete information about the 2009 Festival’s programming and special guests...
Sophia Literaria, April 26, 2009
...of Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine , Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and most recently Oliver Sacks’s Musicophilia . Next week, I plan to get another book autographed by David Sedaris. I have caught the book bug (worm?) and...
Reading Room, April 15, 2009
...4) Return to the Middle Kingdom by Yuan-Tsung Chen 5) Unholy Business by Nina Burleigh 6) Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks As you can see, all are from different topics/issues...
Bookninja, April 3, 2009
...we even get to those who wrote on medical or paramedical (read: sex) subjects, like Alex Comfort and Oliver Sacks. The great majority of these doctors turned to writing instead of practising medicine. For men like Verghese (who has also written...
Freakonomics, April 1, 2009
...would go back to writing about his passion and stop just arguing against other people’s beliefs. 5. Oliver Sacks . Most human medical writer alive. 6. Brian Greene . Not quite sure how I feel about string theory, but another great communicator. 7. Ken...
eclectica, a weblog, March 2, 2009
...related note, I just finished reading an absolutely fascinating book, “ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain ,” by Oliver Sacks . It’s full of interesting and unusual stories of how the brain processes (or does not process) music and the...
Heraclitean Fire, March 2, 2009
...fundamentally broken. The other analogy that occurred to me is that it’s like a story from one of those Oliver Sacks books: someone is in a car accident or has a stroke, and they wake up completely unable to process language. The rest of their brain...
technabob, February 19, 2009
...aspect of his life. You see Gray needed a conference table for his office. He was also reading Oliver Sacks’ Uncle Tungsten . In one of the chapters in the book, Sacks mentioned that he loved to visit a periodic table that was on display at the...
Billie Doux, February 13, 2009
...In one of his popular essays—it might be “Anthropologist on Mars,” from the book of the same name—neurologist Oliver Sacks describes a test performed by one of his colleagues on a high-functioning autistic man. That man had an obsession with...
Who Has Time For This?, February 8, 2009
...== (coming soon) I awoke early on Thursday to ensure I wouldn't miss the first speaker, Dr. Oliver Sacks . Sacks wrote the great study of neural disorders, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat , as well as Awakenings (adapted to film with Robin...
onegoodmove, February 7, 2009
...about how pissed God is at America for condoning homosexuality. Language Log » Fact-checking commas TED Q&A: Neurologist Oliver Sacks | Epicenter from Wired.com How to start a reading revolution | Books | guardian.co.uk Bad Science » Er, “help”....
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, February 1, 2009
...read because we know they'll work a fairly well-defined area in a way we can rely on: Oliver Sacks, Janet Malcolm. I suspect Prulick is right about the necessity of creating a 'brand' online to sell books. But I doubt that will especially favor...
Josh Mock, January 31, 2009
...I just finished reading book number two for 2009: Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain . The book provides a broad look at music, its effects on the brain and certain disorders or psychological problems relating to music...
miracle, January 22, 2009
...the November/December 1999 issue of The Sciences magazine. (The also-rans that year included Tom Wolfe, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Oliver Sacks.) Hayes’s work in this genre has also appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Magazine Writing, The...
things mean a lot, January 21, 2009
...History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Surely this won't be whiny?) An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks (I've wanted to read something by Sacks for a while and this is the only one my library has.) I could go on, but instead I'll just...
Psychology Today Blogs, January 19, 2009
..."see" a new bumper for a Land Rover in my mind before we actually make it up. Neurologist Oliver Sacks has written about visualization and autism in several of his books, and Temple Grandin talks about her own in Thinking In Pictures . Visualization has...
VenturaCountyStar.com - Lifestyle Columnists, January 11, 2009
...and fresh insights, it’s a charming read for 20-somethings and their equally adventurous parents. Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the intricate dance between music, medical science, everyday life and the human spirit in “Musicophilia”...
Author & Book Views On a Healthy Life From Basil &, January 5, 2009
...The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch The Complete Beck Diet For Life by Judith S. Beck Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks The World is Curved by David Smick Editor | Post a Comment | Share Article in Book Review , The Last Lecture , Body Fat Solution ,...
carissa, December 24, 2008
...Moody, actors Laura Linney and Eric Stolz, journalists Anna Quindlen and Kurt Andersen, poet laureate Mark Strand, neurologist Oliver Sacks, architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, artist Brice Marden, playwright John...
Author & Book Views On a Healthy Life From Basil &, December 18, 2008
...my enjoyment is as real as anyone's. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Vintage, 2008) by Oliver Sacks Book Review: Magnificent Mind at Any Age by Daniel Amen M.D. Book Review: The Scalpel And The Soul by Allan Hamilton Editor | Post a Comment |...
joy, December 14, 2008
...Moody, actors Laura Linney and Eric Stolz, journalists Anna Quindlen and Kurt Andersen, poet laureate Mark Strand, neurologist Oliver Sacks, architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, artist Brice Marden, playwright John...
adolfo, December 14, 2008
...Moody, actors Laura Linney and Eric Stolz, journalists Anna Quindlen and Kurt Andersen, poet laureate Mark Strand, neurologist Oliver Sacks, architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, artist Brice Marden, playwright John...
Hello Internet, December 10, 2008
...eating, we spoke about this month's two chosen books. This month's first book was Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. It was a little clinical, but some of the stories in it were pretty incredible. People who constantly hear loud music playing, people who have...
Laelaps, December 5, 2008
...I want to read just for the pleasure of it. Stephen Jay Gould , Carl Sagan , Robert Sapolsky , and Oliver Sacks have written exceptional science books that are a pleasure to read, but such talent is rare. In fact, part of the motivation for my desire to...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, December 5, 2008
...I want to read just for the pleasure of it. Stephen Jay Gould , Carl Sagan , Robert Sapolsky , and Oliver Sacks have written exceptional science books that are a pleasure to read, but such talent is rare. In fact, part of the motivation for my desire to...
N e u r o n a r r a t i v e, December 2, 2008
...attempt could never offer. As such, it has quickly assumed a place among genuine interdisciplinary works, worthy of Oliver Sacks’ praise as “a special pleasure.” Amidst balancing roles as editor at large for Seed magazine , writing for Scientific...
Campaign for the American Reader, December 1, 2008
...doctors and patients for the Wall Street Journal . One title on the list: An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks (Knopf, 1995). Neurology is (pun intended) a highly cerebral field. Detailed knowledge of the anatomy of the brain, spinal cord and...
Boing Boing, November 29, 2008
...Boing Boing post Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (John Medina) Oliver Sacks meets GETTING THINGS DONE Original Boing Boing post My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Jessica...
Psychology Today Blogs, November 24, 2008
...as possible about AS. I read any book I could get my hands on - Uta Frith , Oliver Sacks , Temple Grandin , Maxine Aston , Roger N. Meyer , Liane Holliday-Willey ... When that ran out, I turned to the web - where I became increasingly more and more...
