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Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...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
Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'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
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind - a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants and their ...Show more
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados--mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders--he embarks on an exploration of Southern Mexico ...Show more
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview by Oliver Sacks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.' It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with h ...Show more
On the Move : A Life by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with h ...Show more
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused wi ...Show more
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf 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 there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more