Everything in its place : first loves and last tales / Oliver Sacks.

By:

Sacks, Oliver [author.]

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text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781509821822

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LOC classification:

RC339.52.S23 SAC

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Summary: From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GSU Library Epoch General Stacks	Non-fiction	NFIC-RC339.52.S23SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		50000005928
Books	GSU Library Epoch General Stacks	Non-fiction	NFIC-RC339.52.S23SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		50000005929

Includes bibliographical references(259-263) and index

FIRST LOVES. Water babies ; Remembering South Kensington ; First love ; Humphry Davy, poet of chemistry ; Libraries ; A journey inside the brain
CLINICAL TALES. Cold storage ; Neurological dreams ; Nothingness ; Seeing God in the third millennium ; Hiccups and other curious behaviors ; Travels with Lowell ; Urge ; The catastrophe ; Dangerously well ; Tea and toast ; Telling ; The aging brain ; Kuru ; A summer of madness ; The lost virtues of the asylum
LIFE CONTINUES. Anybody out there? ; Clupeophilia ; Colorado Springs revisited ; Botanists on Park ; Greetings from the Island of Stability ; Reading the fine print ; The elephant's gait ; Orangutan ; Why we need gardens ; Night of the ginkgo ; Filter fish ; Life continues

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose

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