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| 1. |  | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  Arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Great read for anyone interested in the psychology of music, specifically music therapists. |
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| 2. |  | The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales from Touchstone Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Dr. Sacks is an adept reporter, a consummate observer and sensitive human being; in addition to being a good physician. The book describes many interesting syndromes, neurological, that tax ones credulity except for the fact that humans are "suffering" these illnesses. It is |
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| 3. |  | An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  Briefly: I hope evryone knows I was kidding, this book will keep your brain busy for years to come. This might actually be one of my favorite books of all time. I don't write many reviews, so that's saying something. Now this is a brain book. Great book thank you, -jane |
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| 4. |  | Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind from Harper Perennial Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Neurology and the field's bizarre unsolved problems are some of the most fascinating and intriguing things. I love reading and pondering on such things as "the Phantom Limb" - experiencing pain in amputated limbs, "Somatoparaphrenia" - the perception that one's limb(s) belong to someone else,... |
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| 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. |
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| 6. |  | 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... |
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| 7. |  | Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood from Vintage Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Fascinating read about a young boy's exposure to science and science history. Consider it as a gift for a science-minded youngster. |
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| 8. |  | Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return from Springboard Press Price: $16.31 Customer Review: This nonfiction book is about a daughter who quits her job to move back home to help her mother care for her father who has Alzheimers. Reading this is an enjoyable way to learn about Alzheimers, what to expect and how to deal with it. It gives many resources for support for those who have... |
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| 9. |  | 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... |
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| 10. |  | Seeing Voices from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Oliver Sacks composed this work because he became highly intrigued by the deaf after reading the paper "When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf" by Harlan Lane. Similarly, it is hard not to be both intrigued and impressed by the deaf population after reading Sacks' work "Seeing Voices". The focus... |
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| 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... |
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| 12. |  | A Leg to Stand On from Touchstone Price: $11.90 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. |
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| 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... |
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| 14. |  | 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... |
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| 15. |  | The Man Who Forgot How to Read: A Memoir from Thomas Dunne Books Price: $14.96 Customer Review: A short, easy to read book by Howard Engel, a Canadian mystery author who woke up one day to find that he couldn't read. Having suffered a stroke, Engel now suffered from a condition called alexia sine agraphia, which left him without the ability to read and make sense of letters and words, although... |
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| 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;... |
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| 17. |  | A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle from W.H. Freeman & Company Customer Review: The title of this book comes from (who else?) Stephen J Gould. This is what a scientific discussion could be and should be. In short, six famous thinkers were asked to participate in first an individual interview and then a round table discussion with the other five. The subject was life in all its... |
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| 18. |  | 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... |
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| 19. |  | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain from Knopf | |
| 20. |  | The Best American Science Writing 2003 (Best American Science Writing) from Harper Perennial Price: $13.95 Customer Review: I have been on a bit of a binge reading science writing lately, and I really enjoyed this collection of essays. You can pick and choose the topics that most interest you--my favorite was the essay about crackpot amateurs who dedicate themselves to promoting their own theories. I kept the book by my... |
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| 21. |  | An Anthropologist on Mars from MacMillan | |
| 22. |  | The Best American Science Writing 2000 (Four Audiocassettes) from HarperAudio Price: $25.95 Customer Review: I liked many of the pieces in this collection and detested just a few. But overall I was very disappointed since I expected essays about SCIENCE, not essays about science history, about preferring music to science, about doctors making mistakes. I'm not saying those types of essays are not... |
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| 23. |  | Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Detective Novel (Benny Cooperman Mysteries) from Carroll & Graf Price: $13.95 Customer Review: Co-narrated by Ron Halder and Donna White, "Memory Books" by Canadian mystery writer Howard Engel is the story of small-town private investigatory Benny Cooperman who, after being left for dead from a blow to the head by an unknown assailant, wakes up in a hospital and in the middle of a mystery.... |
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| 24. |  | A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics) from NYRB Classics Price: $13.46 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... |
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| 25. |  | Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within from North Atlantic Books Price: $23.10 | |
| 26. | [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. |
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| 27. | [no image] | El Hombre Que Confundio a Su Mujer Con Un Sombrero from Anagrama | |
| 28. |  | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat from Simon & Schuster | |
| 29. | [no image] | MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT AND OTHER CLINICAL TALES from HarperCollins | |
| 30. |  | 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... |
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