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A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
$37.00 AUD
Category: Health
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 of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patie ...Show more
A Leg to Stand on by Oliver Sacks
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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: Health
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
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. Oliver Sacks No wri ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Health
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
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview by Oliver Sacks
$29.99 AUD
$37.00 (18% off)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers. Oliver Sacks--called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New York Times--illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly acclaimed ...Show more
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health
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 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Health | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSIf 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 there to know it.In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to a ...Show more
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound by Aleksandr (Alexander) Luria; foreword by Oliver Sacks
$59.95 AUD
Category: Health
Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Fiction
'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Biography
In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shap ...Show more
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