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  • Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview

    And Other Conversations

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readersOliver 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 books, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and numerous New Yorker ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Man with a Shattered World

    The History of a Brain Wound

    by A. R. Luria ...
    Translated by Lynn Solotaroff ...
    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; half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty speaking, reading, and ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Musicophilia

    Tales of Music and the Brain

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    And Other Clinical Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    In his most beloved and extraordinary book, Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders. Featuring a preface never before included.Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Uncle Tungsten

    Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time — an account of his youth, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories.What first aroused Sacks’ boundless curiosity?In this wonderful memoir, he evokes, with warmth and wit, his childhood in wartime England. There was the large, scientifically minded family in which his very early ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Gratitude

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life.In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, and he shared this news in a New York Times essay that inspired readers all over the world: "I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.... Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • On the Move

    A Life

    by 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 report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • An Anthropologist on Mars

    Seven Paradoxical Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    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 an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • Awakenings

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    Awakenings — which inspired the major motion picture — is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Letters

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **A New Yorker Best Book of 2024The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time.“Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks—struggling, passionate, a furiously ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • The River of Consciousness

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    A profoundly fascinating, illuminating major work from the beloved, bestselling thinker and neurologist Oliver Sacks--completed by him just before his death--provides readers with a compelling, rare gift from the master.The River of Consciousness reflects Oliver Sacks at his wisest and most humane, as he examines some of the human animal's most remarkable faculties: memory, creativity, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Everything in Its Place

    First Loves and Last Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.Oliver Sacks, renowned scientist and storyteller, is adored by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD