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On the Move
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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 … |
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole
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Brian David Burrell,Allan H. Ropper |
Dr. Ropper tries to summarise his insights from his 40 years as a clinical neurologist. |
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Gratitude
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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… |
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A Leg to Stand on
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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… |
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The theft of memory
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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… |
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The collectors of lost souls
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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. |
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