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Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$39.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'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: NZ non-fiction | 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 acclaimed ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology and the Brain | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer t ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$43.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | 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 River of Consciousness (HB) by Oliver Sacks
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice, and in light ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten - Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Picador Collection
Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chem ...Show more
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