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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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Musicophilia
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and Expanded
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and Expanded
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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An Anthropologist On Mars
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $15.00
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $15.00
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions... Read more >
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Uncle Tungsten
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $15.00
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $15.00
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man... Read more >
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Awakenings
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $16.00
"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." --The Washington Post
"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book." --A... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $16.00
"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." --The Washington Post
"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book." --A... Read more >
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Migraine
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
"Balanced, authoritative . . . brilliant." --The London Times
"Written by one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century, Migraine . . . should be read as much for its brilliant insights into the nature of our mental functioning as for its discussion of the migraine." --The New York Times Book Review
The... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
"Balanced, authoritative . . . brilliant." --The London Times
"Written by one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century, Migraine . . . should be read as much for its brilliant insights into the nature of our mental functioning as for its discussion of the migraine." --The New York Times Book Review
The... Read more >
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Seeing Voices
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $13.95
"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $13.95
"This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land... Read more >
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The Island of the Colorblind
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
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 >
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Musicophilia
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
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 >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Vintage Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“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
Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“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
Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Musicophilia
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Mind's Eye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $15.00
Read more >
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Musicophilia
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.98
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 >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $14.98
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Musicophilia
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and Expanded
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and Expanded
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Musicophilia
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $22.50
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 >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $22.50
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Vintage Sacks
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“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
Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“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
Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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