Sacks, Oliver
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: Inside this Instaread of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: - Overview of the book - Important People - Key Takeaways - Analysis of Key Takeaways
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Publisher / Publication Date: iDreamBooks Inc 2015
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Sacks, Oliver
Summary: "Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021
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Summary: Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017