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A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Psychology | 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
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Biography | 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
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but utterly absorbing. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals suffering fro ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | 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 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | 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
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Biography
'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.' - The Times In Uncle Tungsten 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 chemistry. Ther ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten - Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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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