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On the Move - A Life by Oliver Sacks
$27.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Collection
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 Move is infused wi ...Show more
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
$27.95 NZD
Category: Psychology
Written by the author of "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", this book begins with the history of deaf people in the 18th century, the often outrageous ways in which they have been treated in the past, and their continuing struggle for acceptance in a hearing world.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
$27.99 (10% off)
Category: Psychology | 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 Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject matter not only accessible to the general reader, but utterly absorbing. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals suffering fro ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medical & Nursing | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If 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 t ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Neuroscience | Reading Level: good-very good
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century""(The New York Times)" recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" tells the stories of ...Show more
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound by Aleksandr (Alexander) Luria; foreword by Oliver Sacks
$0.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
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
$32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
'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
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice, and in light ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
$27.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From Oliver Sacks - the distinguished neurologist and master storyteller - a personal account of a childhood, told with the charm and unexpected power of his celebrated case histories. In this wonderful memoir Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his childhood in wartime England. He tells of the large sci ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
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