Everything in its place : first loves and last tales

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

"In this final volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life, as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Everything in Its Place brings together writings--many never before published--on a rich variety o...

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Main Author: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Sacks, Oliver, > 1933-2015.
Neurologists > Biography.
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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