Books

11 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hallucinations Hallucinations Oliver Sacks 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 … OL16490291W
On the Move On the Move Oliver Sacks An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his … OL17196751W
Gratitude Gratitude Oliver Sacks "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and fe… OL17722803W
The best American science and nature writing 2013 The best American science and nature writing 2013 Oliver Sacks,Tim Folger,Siddhartha Mukherjee Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature. OL17926812W
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks,Margarida Trias,Jonathan Davis 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 w… OL1811898W
Seeing Voices Seeing Voices Oliver Sacks Essay over doven, hun gebarentaal en sociaal-emotionele problemen. OL1811907W
A Leg to Stand on A Leg to Stand on Oliver Sacks 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… OL1811908W
Awakenings Awakenings Oliver Sacks,Jonathan Davis This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect th… OL1811911W
The River of Consciousness The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks "Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mi… OL19716743W
Een been om op te staan Een been om op te staan Oliver Sacks Een neuroloog beschrijft hoe het is om zelf patiënt te zijn. OL27686081W
Musicophilia Musicophilia Oliver Sacks Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us danci… OL277255W