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(0)Oliver Sacks
3) Gratitude
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 45 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Oliver Sacks's [book] tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
vi, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar....