Oliver Sacks
21) Alive Inside
Pub. Date
[c2014], c2014
Description
Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of humanity . Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experience of individuals around the country who have been revitalized and awakened by the simple act of listening to the music of their youth.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
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 talents. In Dr. Sacks splendid and sympathetic telling, his...
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Formats
Description
A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more -- and the future of our society depends on our...
31) At first sight
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A man who has been blind since shortly after birth undergoes a surgical procedure that allows him to see again, which both enriches and complicates his life.
32) Awakenings
Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Based on a true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he saves.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The latest anthology of the finest nature and science writing is edited by the author of The Elegant Universe and features an eclectic array of works by notable authors--including John Horgan, Daniel Dennett, Dennis Overbye, and others--on everything from the mysteries of genetics to the latest advances in human intelligence.
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