Sacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.89 SACSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Recounts the author's life and career, sharing his experiences as a neurologist in the early 1960s, his obsession with motorcycles and speed, and finding a long-forgotten illness in the wards of a New York chronic hospital.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: With his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 616.89 SACSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 SACSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: 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, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.11 SACCopies Available at Peninsula
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 587.3 SACSacks, Oliver W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.908 SACSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012