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 …
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 crystalline on the inside."-Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
"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 crystalline on the inside."-Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
"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 crystalline on the inside."-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 grace beyond the algorithm of causality." What about out-of-body experiences in those just returned from death's brink? “Hell, one has a vision of heaven all the time!"-Lawrence Weschler, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
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1. Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
By: Jane Gardam
3.94
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, … read more
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"-Laikas bėga. -Nesu tikras, kad jis žino kur."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Apie praeitį, nebent ji būtų be galo laiminga, vaikai kalbėti nelinkę."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Kai tik atsiranda merginų, egzaminų pažymiai ima blogėti. Kuo karštesnė aistra, tuo prasčiau sekasi mokslas."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
2. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
By: Bill Hayes
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
3. Oaxaca Journal
By: Oliver Sacks
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is w… read more
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"Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal...."-Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal
4. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
By: Cecil Murphey , Ben Carson
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor g… read more
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"Dream Big"-Cecil Murphey, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
"I don’t know if I’ll get in at Stanford,"-Cecil Murphey, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
"The first brush of violet painted the horizon"-Cecil Murphey, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
"It’s all in God’s hands. That’s where it’s always been."-Cecil Murphey, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
5. Seeing Voices
By: Oliver Sacks
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonder… read more
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6. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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8. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
By: Matt Ridley
3.83
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing… read more
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9. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsiv… read more
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10. Uncle Tungsten
By: Oliver Sacks
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of… read more
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11. Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview
By: Oliver Sacks
4.44
Format: None pages, ebook
"An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and b… read more
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12. Hallucinations
By: Oliver Sacks
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty hou… read more
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13. On the Move: A Life
By: Oliver Sacks
4.02
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will … read more
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"In 1966, after arriving in New York, I read two of Luria's books, Higher Cortical Functions in Man and Human Brain and Psychological Processes. The latter, which contained very full case histories of…"-Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life
"Individuality is deeply imbued in us from the very start, at the neuronal level. Even at a motor level, researchers have shown, an infant does not follow a set pattern of learning to walk or how to r…"-Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life
14. Gratitude
By: Oliver Sacks
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was… read more
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15. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
By: Oliver Sacks
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a H… read more
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16. Awakenings
By: Oliver Sacks , None , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients… read more
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17. A Leg to Stand On
By: Oliver Sacks
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Marsand the bestselling The Man Who Misto… read more
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18. The Mind's Eye
By: Oliver Sacks
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about… read more
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19. The River of Consciousness
By: Oliver Sacks
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, andMusicophilia, a collection of essays tha… read more
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20. The Story of My Life
By: Helen Keller
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more
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21. Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
By: Lynne Olson
4.22
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade--codename Hedgehog--the woman who headed the la… read more
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22. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
By: Frans de Waal
4.16
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more
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23. Mirarse de frente
By: Vivian Gornick
3.88
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
En Mirarse de frente, Gornick convierte el recuerdo de su experiencia como camarera en los Castkill… read more
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"Those of us who crave the expressive but can’t shake off the melancholy walk the street."-Vivian Gornick, Mirarse de frente
"Everyone who had ever cared to investigate the nature of human loneliness had seen that only one’s own working mind breaks the solitude of the self."-Vivian Gornick, Mirarse de frente
24. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
25. The Colors of All the Cattle (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #19)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.16
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, P… read more
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26. Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
By: Vaclav Smil
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth… read more
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- history
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"Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the mod…"-Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
27. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
28. 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
29. 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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- gay
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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
30. Dissection
By: Cristina LePort
4.09
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
DC heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart … read more
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31. Felsefe Okuma Rehberi
By: Nigel Warburton
3.71
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Bu, felsefe okurken ihtiyaç duyulan beceriler için özlü ve kolay bir elkitabıdır ve konuyla ilk kez… read more
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"Philosophy is not a spectator sport."-Nigel Warburton, Felsefe Okuma Rehberi
