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Oliver Sacks is the author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and many other books, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize, a Polk Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in New York City, where he is a practicing neurologist. He recently accepted a new position at Columbia University.
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author bookshelf
An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $14.95
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an... Read more >
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $14.95
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an... Read more >
Awakenings
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $16.00
Awakenings 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. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which... Read more >
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $16.00
Awakenings 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. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which... Read more >
The Island of the Colorblind
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $14.95
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 to the tiny Pacific atoll... Read more >
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $14.95
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 to the tiny Pacific atoll... Read more >
Migraine
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
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 sometimes experience. Portrayals of these uncanny... Read more >
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
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 sometimes experience. Portrayals of these uncanny... Read more >
Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much... Read more >
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much... Read more >
Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $26.00
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much... Read more >
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $26.00
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much... Read more >
Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
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Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.98
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Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by Simon Prebble
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.98
Read more >
Musicophilia
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
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Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $22.50
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Tales of Music and the Brain
Written by Oliver Sacks
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $22.50
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Seeing Voices
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $13.95
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 portrait... Read more >
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $13.95
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 portrait... Read more >
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $15.00
From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, and teachers, his curiosity was encouraged and abetted by aunts, uncles, parents... Read more >
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $15.00
From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, and teachers, his curiosity was encouraged and abetted by aunts, uncles, parents... Read more >
Vintage Sacks
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
“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
Oliver Sacks’s empathetic understanding and compelling storytelling ability have turned his accounts of his patients and his own life into literature, as evidenced in “Uncle Tungsten,”... Read more >
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
“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
Oliver Sacks’s empathetic understanding and compelling storytelling ability have turned his accounts of his patients and his own life into literature, as evidenced in “Uncle Tungsten,”... Read more >
Vintage Sacks
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $10.95
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Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $10.95
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