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1	Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain more books like this by Oliver Sacks add to wishlist Sackss compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains. Here, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism more books like this by Temple Grandin, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist The animal scientist describes how she and other victims of autism perceive the world, and relates the ways in which she has been able to adapt and have a successful career. see all copies from $3.79! new only from $7.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist In a fashion still more personal than his previous books, Oliver Sacks gives us portraits of several neurological patients, following them as far as possible into their otherworldly modes of being: a surgeon who is consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist A collection of clinical tales that recounts, with sensitivity and empathy, the amazingly complex lives of people who live with neurological impairments. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.12! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Island of the Colorblind more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist A case history of congenital disease in two Micronesian islands, by the medical historian and author of AWAKENINGS and THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT. On Pingelap, one of the Caroline Islands, the natives suffer from inherited colorblindness; while many of the inhabitants of Guam contract Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist Oliver Sacks applies his observational and clinical skill to the world of the deaf--a world delineated by specific social needs and its own unique and complex methods of communication. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist The famed neurologist Oliver Sacks writes about his boyhood in England, where he discovered the beauty and structure of science and was nurtured by his chemist uncle in his scientific explorations and his development into a man. A New York Times Editor's Choice for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Awakenings more books like this by Oliver Sacks add to wishlist By the author of "Seeing Voices', this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks tells the history, offers his own observations and the patients' reactions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist A collection of clinical tales that recounts, with sensitivity and empathy, the amazingly complex lives of people who live with neurological impairments. see all copies from $6.88! new only from $10.15!
10	Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, a Daughter's Return more books like this by Mary Ellen Geist, Oliver Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist Through her own story and through interviews with doctors and other women who've followed the "Daughter Track"--leaving a job to care for an aging parent--Geist offers emotional insight into one of the most difficult situations a son or daughter may face during his or her life. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $11.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Oaxaca Journal more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist Oliver Sacks journeys to Oaxaca, Mexico to observe the fern--a lifelong hobby for the celebrated author and neurologist. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Leg to Stand on more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist After breaking his leg escaping a bull, Oliver Sacks ruminates on the strangeness of recovery as he progresses through his own unusual convalescence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Island of the Colorblind: Open-Market Edition more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist A case history of congenital disease in two Micronesian islands, by the medical historian and author of AWAKENINGS and THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT. On Pingelap, one of the Caroline Islands, the natives suffer from inherited colorblindness; while many of the inhabitants of Guam contract Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Seeing Voices more books like this by Oliver Sacks add to wishlist Oliver Sacks applies his observational and clinical skill to the world of the deaf--a world delineated by specific social needs and its own unique and complex methods of communication. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism more books like this by Clara Claiborne Park, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist ""Exiting Nirvana" is a strong and affecting profile of an artist with autism, beautifully written by her mother. . . . Skillfully weaving in theories of autism with the experience of raising an autistic child, Park goes beyond individual history to address the wider question of what it means to be human".--from the National Magazine Awards ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| SVS
16 view cover	A Journey Round My Skull more books like this by Frigyes Karinthy, Vernon Duckworth Barker (Translator), Oliver Sacks (Introduction by) add to wishlist The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest cafe, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring--so loud as to drown out all other noises--of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $9.45! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism more books like this by Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by), Clara Claiborne Park add to wishlist In this sequel to her first book, THE SIEGE, Park details the idiosyncrasies of life while helping her daughter Jessy, now 40, emerge from her internal autistic world to interact with the one outside. Features an introduction by famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Organism more books like this by Kurt Goldstein, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist A summation of Goldstein's "holistic" theory of the human organism. In the course of his studies on brain-damaged soldiers during World War I, Goldstein became aware of the failure of contemporary biology and medicine to really understand the impact of such injuries and the astonishing adjustments that patients made to them. He challenged ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $20.18! \| SVS
19	Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder Expanded and Updated more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist In recent years the bestselling Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat have received great critical acclaim, but Oliver Sacks's readers may remember that he began his medical career working with migraine patients. In this, the latest edition of "Migraine," he returns to his first book and enriches it with additional case histories, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Anthropologist on Mars more books like this by Oliver W Sacks add to wishlist In a fashion still more personal than his previous books, Oliver Sacks gives us portraits of several neurological patients, following them as far as possible into their otherworldly modes of being: a surgeon who is consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $10.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions more books like this by Susan R Barry, Oliver Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist A neuroscientist tells the remarkable story of how she rewired her own brain--and came to see the world anew see all copies from $10.20! new only from $10.20! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Migraine more books like this by Oliver Sacks add to wishlist For centuries, physicians have been fascinated by the visual hallucinations, or auras, which often precede a migraine and which are similar to those induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. This study of migraine has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter, illustrated with startling full-colour paintings by migraine sufferers. Dr ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Beyond Pain: Making the Mind-Body Connection more books like this by Dr. Angela Mailis-Gagnon, Mr. David Israelson, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist "The range of topics covered in Beyond Pain is very wide, and one is likely to find almost any question about pain that one has ever puzzled over explored somewhere in its pages." -From the Foreword by Oliver Sacks With its gripping firsthand stories of patients and their ailments, "Beyond Pain" opens the door to our understanding of the mysteries ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.98!
24 view cover	Best American Science Writing more books like this by Oliver W Sacks (Editor), Jesse Cohen (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of writings by science journalists and pioneers covers the full range of scientific inquiry, from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy to genetics, evolutionary biology, and cognition, offering a definitive overview of the year's most important and provocative scientific d see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe more books like this by Jane Maher, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by) add to wishlist In 1995 William C. Stokoe arrived at Gallaudet College (later Gallaudet University) to teach English, specifically Chaucer. His own education in Old and Middle English, however, triggered a disparate response within him when he was first exposed to deaf people signing. While most of his colleagues conformed to current conventional theory and ... see all copies from $20.30! new only from $24.52! \| SVS

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