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Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Oliver SacksIn this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Oliver Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver SacksThis book is filled with wonders’ Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.
Hallucinations
Oliver SacksIn Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and ...
The Mind's Eye
Oliver SacksIn The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the ...
A Leg to Stand On
Oliver SacksA Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks’ ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver SacksBringing together Oliver’s endless curiosity about natural history and the richness of human culture with his sharp eye for detail, this book is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.
Rusty Nails & Ration Books: Great Depression & WWII ...
PreviewOf course, the flour and sugar sacks were used for clothing, tea towels, and curtains! Mother knew how to take the lettering out of the sacks by working it out with elbow grease and fat before boiling the sacks. Marion McNair knew that other ...
Gratitude
Oliver Sacks' Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.
Migraine
Oliver W. SacksDescribes the symptoms and history of migraine headaches, identifies foods and conditions which may provoke attacks, and discusses the possible treatments
On the Move: A Life
Oliver SacksOn the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer - and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and ...
Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, ...
Andrew SchulmanAn Oliver Sacks Foundation Best Book of the Year Selection, Finalist for the Books for a Better Life "Best First Book” Award, and a People Magazine Pick in nonfiction.
The Superhuman Mind: Free the Genius in Your Brain
Berit Brogaard, PhDThe Superhuman Mind is a book full of the fascinating science readers look for from the likes of Oliver Sacks, combined with the exhilarating promise of Moonwalking with Einstein.
It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers
Francesco BorsetiGenre: Fantasy/Comedy; Director: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Writers: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver” (Screenplay) and Phil Groves (Screenplay “ Primal Urge”); Cinematographer: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Editor: Robert ...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
David QuammenAmong the acclaimed writers represented in this volume are Richard Preston on "The Demon in the Freezer,” John McPhee bidding "Farewell to the Nineteeth Century,” Oliver Sacks remembering the "Brilliant Light” of his boyhood,and ...
Consumed: Why Americans Hate, Love, and Fear Food
Michelle StaceyAnd the only thing he could think of was that two-year-old Harvard study by Frank Sacks—Frank Sacks who several years before had unsuccessfully petitioned Quaker itself for grant money. It can't be that study, Ink told himself. That's too old ...
Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in ...
Shaden M. TageldinJeffrey Sacks, however, argues that Arab-Islamic thought entertained the separation of words from things—the arbitrariness of the sign— as early as the tenth century. See Jeffrey Sacks, “Latinity,” CR: The New Centennial Review 9, no.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter ...
Steve SilbermanWinner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Foreword by Oliver Sacks What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong ...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous ...
Mark MiodownikMiodownik writes well enough to make even concrete sparkle' Financial Times 'I stayed up all night reading this book' Oliver Sacks 'Expert, deftly written, immensely enjoyable' Observer Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society ...
Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization: Contemporary ...
Opoku AgyemanJeffrey Sacks, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Penguin Press, NY, 2005, p. 43. 32. Cited in Jeffrey Sacks, The End of Poverty, p. 187. 33. Felix Green, “How It Began,” in Paula S. Rosenberg, Ed., Beyond Borders: ...
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Mahmoud Darwishby Mahmoud Darwish; translated from Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks.—1sted. p. cm. ISBN 9781935744689 (alk. paper) I. Sacks, Jeffrey. II. Title. PJ7820.A7L513 2006 892.7'16 —dc22 2005035484 Distributed by Consortium Book Salesand ...
John Terry - Captain, Leader, Champion
Oliver DerbyshireOliver Derbyshire ... 10 8 64 2 © Text copyright Oliver Derbyshire 2010, 2016 The right of Oliver Derbyshire to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Heroes In Hard Times
Neal KingWritten by Frank Sacks and Robert Bons. Directed by Mark L, Lester. Produced by Frank Sacks. HBO/Vidmark, 1993. Extreme Prejudice. Written by Deric Washburn and Harry Kleiner. Directed by Walter Hill. Produced by Buzz Feitshans.
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
Bronwen DickeyJeffrey Sacks likened dog bite research: Jeffrey Sacks, interview with author, June 2012. CHAPTER 12: “DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE” Interview sources for this chapter include Dave Wilson, Deanna Smith, “Don't Believe the Hype”
Thierry Henry: The Biography: The Amazing Life of The ...
Oliver DerbyshireThe Amazing Life of The Greatest Footballer on Earth Oliver Derbyshire ... 8 64 2 © Text copyright Oliver Derbyshire, 2006 The rights of Oliver Derbyshire to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with ...
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
New York (State). Court of Appeals.That your deponent has known Frank Sacks, also known as Frank McCarthy, for about twenty years. That Frank Sacks together with your deponent's brother, John Smith, was brought up in the St. Agatha Home, Spring Valley, New York. That is ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
G. Edward WhiteOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 16, 1876, Harvard University Archives. The letter is quoted in White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 112. 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., diary entry, June 17, 1872, Holmes papers. 11.
Marshmallow
Clare Turlay NewberryMarshmallow is a baby rabbit who moves into Oliver's home. At first Oliver does not welcome Marshmallow, but the little bunny's charms are impossible to resist. This is the true story of how Oliver and Marshmallow become friends.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint
Frederic R. KelloggThe journal of his reading, which he kept from 1865. 1 Howe, Justice Oliver WendellHolmes: TheProvingYears, 11–25, 96; White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 130. 2 Little, “The Early Reading of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,” 80 6 ...
Oliver's Shipping Law Manual: A Practical Guide for ...
William Atkinson OliverA Practical Guide for Shipowners, Captains, Etc. : with Digests of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894-1906 William Atkinson Oliver. Oliver's shipping law manual William Atkinson Oliver, Great Britain Front Cover.
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