Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Gratitude andOn the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sa…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I want a real book made of paper with print―a book with heft, with a bookish smell, as books have had for the last 550 years, a book that I can slip into my pocket or keep with its fellows on my bookshelves, where my eye might alight on it at unexpected times."-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"But there is a fundamental difference between reading and being read to. When one reads actively, whether using the eyes or a finger, one is free to skip ahead or back, to reread, to ponder or daydream in the middle of a sentence―one reads in one's own time. Being read to, listening to an audiobook, is a more passive experience, subject to the vagaries of another's voice and largely unfolding in the narrator's own time."-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"Come scrittore, trovo che i giardini siano essenziali per il processo creativo: come medico, ogni volta che è possibile, porto i miei pazienti in un giardino. Tutti abbiamo avuto l'esperienza di vagabondare in un giardino rigoglioso o in un deserto senza tempo, di camminare lungo le sponde di un fiume o di un oceano, o di arrampicarci su una montagna, e di trovarci al tempo stesso rasserenati e rinvigoriti, mentalmente coinvolti, rigenerati nel corpo e nello spirito. L'importanza di questi stati fisiologici per la salute dell'individuo e della comunità è fondamentale e di vasta portata; in quarant'anni di esercizio della medicina, ho riscontrato che solo due tipi di «terapia» non farmacologica sono di vitale importanza per i pazienti con neuropatologie croniche: la musica e i giardini."-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"I had no idea that this was happening―not only in the Einstein library but in college and public libraries all over the country. I was horrified when I visited the library recently and found the shelves, once overflowing, now sparsely occupied. Over the last years, most of the books, it seems, have been thrown out, with remarkably little objection from anyone. I felt that a murder, a crime had been committed: the destruction of centuries of knowledge. Seeing my distress, a librarian reassured me that everything 'of worth' had been digitized. But I do not use a computer, and I am deeply saddened by the loss of books, even bound periodicals, for there is something irreplaceable about a physical book: its look, its smell, its heft. I thought of how the library once cherished 'old' books, had a special room for old and rare books; and how in 1967, rummaging through the stacks, I had found an 1873 book, Edward Liveing's Megrim, which inspired me to write my own first book."-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
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1. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
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4.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he … read more
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"O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it."-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"I have come to believe that kindness is repaid in unexpected ways and that if you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say,…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
"Sad, shocking, horrible, yes," underlining each word, "but..." (Oliver often said that but was his favorite word, a kind of etymological flip of the coin, for it allowed consideration of both sides o…"-Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
2. Almodovar Teoremi
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3.91
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Bir gece aniden yola fırlayan bir geyik, korkunç bir trafik kazası, kazada ölen bir sevgili, yok ol… read more
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3. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
By: Peter Vronsky
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. Walden and Other Writings
By: Peter Matthiessen , Henry David Thoreau
4.26
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5. The Periodic Table
By: Primo Levi , Raymond Rosenthal
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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6. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
By: Sam Kean
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
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7. First Love and Other Novellas
By: Samuel Beckett , None
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The Endand The Expelled; these four… read more
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8. The Art of Memory
By: Frances A. Yates
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of… read more
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9. Hurry Down Sunshine: A Memoir
By: Michael Greenberg
3.92
Format: 32 pages,
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10. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor
By: Melikşah Altuntaş
3.35
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more
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11. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
By: Paul A. Offit
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more
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12. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
By: Leigh Sales
3.88
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more
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13. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
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4.16
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14. A Dance With Murder
By: Elizabeth Coleman
3.76
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
By: Guy Leschziner
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narco… read more
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16. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
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4.02
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17. Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Gratitude andOn the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sa… read more
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"I want a real book made of paper with print―a book with heft, with a bookish smell, as books have had for the last 550 years, a book that I can slip into my pocket or keep with its fellows on my book…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"But there is a fundamental difference between reading and being read to. When one reads actively, whether using the eyes or a finger, one is free to skip ahead or back, to reread, to ponder or daydre…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"Come scrittore, trovo che i giardini siano essenziali per il processo creativo: come medico, ogni volta che è possibile, porto i miei pazienti in un giardino. Tutti abbiamo avuto l'esperienza di vaga…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"I had no idea that this was happening―not only in the Einstein library but in college and public libraries all over the country. I was horrified when I visited the library recently and found the shel…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
18. Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
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"In no way can interoception be regarded as a plain perceptual representation of the body inside the nervous system. There is, rather, an extensive commingling of signals. By now we should be clear ab…"-António Damásio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
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3.77
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
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20. And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
By: Lawrence Weschler
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient "[An] engrossing biographical … read more
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"The geology museum had a wonderful dullness." We make our way over to a case full of geodes, before Oliver pauses transfixed. "I love the idea of something dull on the outside, and spectacular and cr…"-Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
"Do you believe in God? "I believe in the divine: Mendelssohn is divine. "I believe in grace: All natural movements are graceful. "I believe in the mystical mathematics of heaven, which is to say grac…"-Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
21. What Is a Doctor?: A GP's Prescription for the Future
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4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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