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A Leg to Stand on by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
'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: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
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: Science | 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
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
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
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
$28.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
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: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
The bestselling author and "one of the greatest clinical writers of the twentieth century" (New York Times) explores the world of deafness and ponders the nature of human communication.
The Island of the Colour-Blind by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders ...Show more
The Island of the Colourblind by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
Oliver Sacks travels once again in search of human diversity, to the South Pacific atoll of Pingelap, where he finds that a high proportion of the population is colourblind and investigates the causes and effects of that condition. This book explores the islands, the people and their case studies.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$23.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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