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1.		Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition from Vintage Price: $8.97 Customer Review: Whenever my daughter has a tune in her head that she can't shake, she has an interesting solution. "Turn on the radio," she says, "I gotta hear some different music." In effect, she tricks her brain and diverts it from one musical function to another. In this his tenth book, Oliver Sacks, Professor... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales from Touchstone Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This is an amazing book. It completely changes a reader's perspective on the study and practice of Neurology. While not every observation may yet be backed by research, the way that Dr Sacks approaches a problem is unique and inspiring. Read it before you start your Neurology term to arouse... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind from Harper Perennial Price: $10.88 Customer Review: This book is a compilation of interesting clinical cases in neurosciences, brain injury and therapy, mainly unrelated to one another. You could easily read only those chapters of your interest. It seemed to me that as "unifying thesis", the author chose the idea of the "self" and how it might... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: These are seven stories of people with some neurological aberration. These are all stories of real people, everyday difficulties, of denial & acceptance, of the indomitable human spirit. A painter's colorful world goes gray with impeccable tonality. A monk revels in a Grateful Dead concert... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Migraine from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: Oliver Sacks is better in theaters than read. I consider "The man who mistook his wife with a hat" the only readable book from him.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return from Springboard Press Price: $16.31 Customer Review: As lifespans lengthen, it's an unfortunate reality that more and more of us are likely to encounter the tragedy of Alzheimer's Disease. In "Measure of the Heart," ambitious, successful California and New York radio news anchor and reporter Mary Ellen Geist tells of leaving her career to help her... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Seeing Voices from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: I loved some of his other books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" and his autobiography so this was a dissappointment. I didn't even finish it, not rivited to the page as I was by other books.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Awakenings from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: I found this book of extreme importance as did my psychopharmocologist in understanding Parkinsonism (this is apart from Parkinson's which most people are familiar with) which is being identified clinically in myself from being enduced by the current generation of neuraleptics as tardive psychosis... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: If you love Sacks writing, read this one. Okay, I'm interested in chemistry, but regardless, one reads this book for the anecdotes. Every family has it's "characters" - that is part of what makes the memories of our youth treasures beyond price. It's as entertaining as Vonnegut without... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould from W. W. Norton Price: $23.10 Customer Review: The Richness of Life is a good overview of Stephen Jay Gould's writings, but the individual collections are better. He is a brilliant and original thinker, thought-provoking, and generally entertaining. My only comment that is less than superlative would be on his writing style, which unfortunately... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		The Island of the Colorblind from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Oliver Sacks has created a lump of delight in his book, The Island of the Colorblind. After having a sincere interest in the topic of colorblind people, Sacks travels to Micronesia to visit with and better understand the victims of achromatopsia (a form of colorblindness) on the island. He takes... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		A Leg to Stand On from Touchstone Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Oliver Sacks is better in theaters than read. I consider "The man who mistook his wife with a hat" the only readable book from him.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Oaxaca Journal (National Geographic Directions) from National Geographic Price: $8.76 Customer Review: This book has its own special charm. World- renowned psychologist and author Oliver Sacks takes a trip with members of the American Fern Society. He is an amateur here, but cannot conceal his respect for his fellow travelers, and his joy at being with them in the Mexican province of Oaxaca. Sacks... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Vintage Sacks from Vintage Price: $8.76 Customer Review: Vintage Sacks is a compilation of excerpts from his other books. Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who writes about science. His writings are for the lay person yet they give great insight into various aspects of human nature. He has excerpts from Awakenings about how a group of patients come out of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales from Simon & Schuster Customer Review: I first bumped into this book in my college English class as part of the required reading. The first story, which is the story from which the book derives its title, is about a music teacher who got so good at looking at the details, his brain could no longer focus on the large picture. Each... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound from Harvard University Press Price: $18.45 Customer Review: I learned about this book from Oliver Sacks; he's often mentioned Luria as a hero and cited this book as an example of what he's trying to do. It is a case study--collaboration between doctor and patient--of a man who suffered severe effects from a brain injury incurred during the Second World War;... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Floating Cities from Michael Joseph Ltd Customer Review: Stephen Wiltshire's pen and ink drawings are fantastic. He captures each subject perfectly and in incredible detail...sometimes having only seen the subject for a few minutes. Incredible drawings made even more incredible by the fact that Stephen is autistic.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics) from NYRB Classics Price: $12.21 Customer Review: I purchased this book because, upon browsing it in the bookstore, it mirrored much of my experience with seizures and brain surgery. His descriptions and the unreal experience of having a brain disease hit the bulls eye. The floating, stream of conciousness-like storytelling brings home the feelings... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		The Man Who Forgot How to Read: A Memoir from Thomas Dunne Books Price: $9.99	Click here for more information


20.		Uncle Tungsten from Picador Customer Review: "It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science, has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution." (Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, 1826 - 1910). These words had a powerful resonance for Oliver Sacks. When... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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