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A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
<b>‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - <i>Observer</i></b> When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that ...Show more
A Leg to Stand On (Audio CD; unabridged; 7 CDs) by Oliver Sacks (Read by); Jonathan Davis (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
When Oliver 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 straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks expe ...Show more
A Leg to Stand on by Oliver Sacks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
'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
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
$18.65 AUD
Category: Psychology
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Self Help
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
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
For centuries, physicians have been fascinated by the visual hallucinations, or auras, which often precede a migraine and which are similar to those induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. This study of migraine has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter, illustrated with startling full- ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | 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