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A Leg To Stand On (revised edition 1991) by Oliver Sacks
$7.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand Titles
Dr. Oliver Sacks's books "Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars" and the bestselling "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In "A Leg to Stand On", it is Sacks himself who is the patie ...Show more
Awakenings (Film Tie-In Ed) by Oliver Sacks
$7.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand Titles
Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - 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 Sa ...Show more
Beyond Pain - Making the Mind-Body Connection by Angela Mailis-Gagnon; David Israelson; Oliver Sacks (Foreword by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand Titles
"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 SacksWith its gripping firsthand stories of patients and their ailments, Beyond Pain opens the ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$22.95 AUD
Category: Grief
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing | Reading Level: very good
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neuro ...Show more
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