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From the bestselling author of Gratitude andOn the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks’s broad range of interests–from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer’s.
Oliver Sacks, renowned scientist and storyteller, is adored by readers for his neurological case histories, hi From the bestselling author of Gratitude andOn the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks’s broad range of interests–from his passions for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer’s.
Oliver Sacks, renowned scientist and storyteller, is adored by readers for his neurological case histories, his fascination and familiarity with human behaviour at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks’s myriad interests, all told with his characteristic compassion, erudition, and luminous prose. From the celebrated case history of Spalding Gray that appeared in The New Yorker four months before his death to reflections on mental asylums; from piercing accounts of Schizophrenia to a reminiscence of Robin Williams; from the riveting tale of a medical colleague falling victim to Alzheimer’s to the cinematography of Michael Powell, this volume celebrates and reflects the wondrous curiosity of Oliver Sacks. …more
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Update “[V]isual imagery may vanish completely from dreams. I have encountered this, on occasion, as a presenting symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. So now I’m trying to remember did I see visuals last night in my dreams? I remember dreaming but even the fragments of what I dreamed about are gone.
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I’m so pleased to find a book by the late Oliver Sacks I haven’t read and want to read. I am a bit worried that since the book was produced posthumously, it will be the rejected essays and storie Update “[V]isual imagery may vanish completely from dreams. I have encountered this, on occasion, as a presenting symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. So now I’m trying to remember did I see visuals last night in my dreams? I remember dreaming but even the fragments of what I dreamed about are gone.
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I’m so pleased to find a book by the late Oliver Sacks I haven’t read and want to read. I am a bit worried that since the book was produced posthumously, it will be the rejected essays and stories from other books that the publishers have cobbled together in order to Make Money. But I might be being too cynical. Maybe the book was put together out of reverence for the great man, as good a writer as a neurologist and even, in his private life a try-any-drug, bike riding muscle man? (See On the Move: A Life I hope so anyway. …more
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