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A Leg to Stand On
$8.58
Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders.In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient:..
A Leg to Stand On
$14.43
A neurologist describes his struggle to recover from a mountain climbing accident and examines the effects of a neural injury on the sense of self Author: Oliver Sacks Publisher: Summit Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0671467808 ISBN-13: 9780671467807..
Awakenings
$11.20
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 ..
Awakenings
$33.64
Describes the effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients with encephalitic Parkinsonism Author: Sacks, Oliver W. Publisher: Summit Books Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0671648349 ISBN-13: 9780671648343..
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other ...
$7.90
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth 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 storie..
The Mind's Eye
$10.16
With compassion and insight, Dr. Oliver Sacks again illuminates the mysteries of the brain by introducing us to some remarkable characters, including Pat, who remains a vivacious communicator despite the stroke that deprives her of speech, and Howard, a novelist who loses the ability to read. Sacks ..
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
$8.70
From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, and teachers, his curiosity was en..
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
$7.49
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and ..