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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
$24.99 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
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W Sacks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait ...Show more
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver W. Sacks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Vintage
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace.Drawn to the ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: good-very good
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th 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 stories of ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology
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 W Sacks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Vintage
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 inve ...Show more
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neuro ...Show more
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology
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