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103 produkter
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2008
188 kr
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From the legendary neurologist and bestselling author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" comes a powerful and compassionate ("New York Times") book that examines the power of music and how it affects the brain.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2021
232 kr
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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine” ( The New York Times ) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no …
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2022
136 kr
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'A masterpiece' – The New York TimesIf 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 …
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Av Oliver Sacks
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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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 …
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2023
126 kr
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Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver 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 …
Migraine
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2023
136 kr
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'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph.Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating condition, …
On the Move
A Life
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2023
153 kr
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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 …
Island of the Colour-blind
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2026
121 kr
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‘Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging’ – The Sunday TimesJourney into the unknown with the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.Always fascinated by islands, neurologist …
Seeing Voices
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2013
180 kr
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Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices , Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt …
River of Consciousness
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2026
120 kr
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Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee.The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with …
Influencing Machine, Expanded Edition
James Tilly Matthews and The Air Loom
Av Mike Jay, Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2026
230 kr
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A gripping true tale of madness, technology, politics, and paranoia in Georgian England. Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’s case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a …
Musicophilia
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2008
148 kr
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Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia , he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical …
Anthropologist on Mars
A collection of fascinating case studies on the human mind, from the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2011
194 kr
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In An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he …
Vintage Sacks
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2007
222 kr
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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It is Dr. Sacks’s gift that he has found a way to enlarge our experience and understanding of what the human is.” — The Wall Street Journal Dubbed “the poet …
Awakenings
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2013
224 kr
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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. …
Migraine
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2013
240 kr
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The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs …
Seeing Voices
A Journey into the World of the Deaf
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2012
117 kr
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'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – Evening StandardImaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar – for to be profoundly …
Seeing Voices
A Journey into the World of the Deaf
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2011
189 kr
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'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – Evening StandardImaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar – for to be profoundly …
Awakenings
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
194 kr
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'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is …
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2011
175 kr
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Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver 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 …
Anthropologist on Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2012
152 kr
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly …
Island of the Colorblind
Av Oliver Sacks
E-bok, 2012
82 kr
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Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace. Drawn …
Seeing Voices
Av Oliver Sacks
Häftad, 2000
255 kr
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Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt …
