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The Echo Maker The Echo Maker Richard Powers On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nu… OL138011W
Pink noise Pink noise Leonid Korogodski When he is called upon to heal a comatose girl, Nathi, a posthuman and one of the foremost brain doctors on Mars, attempts a radical procedure with unforeseen consequences when he maps his own mind i… OL16651397W
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 lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai Ruiyan Xu A happy and successful businessman, dining in a Shanghai hotel, is badly injured by a gas explosion in the building. In the aftermath, the formerly bilingual Li Jin is only able to speak the falterin… OL17915670W
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
Mentored by a madman Mentored by a madman Lees, Andrew "A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled … OL19720812W
The theft of memory The theft of memory Jonathan Kozol "National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells th… OL20001710W
Presidential migraines Presidential migraines Fritz Strobl "With the first presidential debate to be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota just a few weeks away, the focus of the nation is upon a young senator from California of Chine… OL24175801W
Books Books Charlie Hill Two tourists die of a mysterious condition while on holiday in Corfu, piquing neurologist Lauren Furrow's interest. She investigates, finding help in the unlikely form of Richard Anger: independent b… OL24251689W
Ravish Ravish Cathy Yardley An innocent beauty, trapped in sleep....Sheltered from society, Aurora Jacquard has yet to feel the sweet release of physical love. Then, on the night she is about to give in to temptation, she inexp… OL5697664W
A Father's Sacrifice A Father's Sacrifice Mallory Kane A child's life was at stake.Little Ben had only had a few precious weeks before he'd be paralyzed forever...and the neurological interface Dr. Dylan Stryker had been developing for the federal govern… OL5805971W
The collectors of lost souls The collectors of lost souls Warwick Anderson This account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause. OL5968785W
The pioneering role of Clarence Luther Herrick in American neuroscience The pioneering role of Clarence Luther Herrick in American neuroscience William Frederick Windle 140 p., [2] leaves of plates : 22 cm OL6706561W