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A Leg to Stand on by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
'Sacks has written a book about a leg his leg but it is also a story about the nature of selfhood' New York Review of Books When OIiver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but ...Show more
Awakenings (Film Tie-In Ed) by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
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
Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Reading Level: very good
'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.' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we understand our own min ...Show more
Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating book about the power of music, from the bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat".Oliver Sacks has been hailed by the "New York Times" as 'one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century'. In this eagerly awaited new book, the subject of his uniquely liter ...Show more
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
With "Seeing Voices" Dr Sacks launches us on a journey into the world of the deaf - which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere. 'Oliver Sacks, blessed with an understanding heart and poetic voice, speaks the language of the ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" [ "The New York Times" ] recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" tells the stories ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
The bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" describes how we experience the visual world. In "Musicophilia", Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in "The Mind's Eye", he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions ...Show more
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