Bibliograph

Everything in its place, first loves and last tales, by Oliver Sacks

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Label

Everything in its place, first loves and last tales, by Oliver Sacks

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Everything in its place

Oclc number

1047618242

Responsibility statement

by Oliver Sacks

Sub title

first loves and last tales

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Water babies -- Remembering South Kensington -- First love -- Humphry Davy : the poet of chemistry -- Libraries -- A journey inside the brain -- Cold storage -- Urge -- The catastrophe -- Nothingness -- Seeing God in the third millennium -- Neurological dreams -- Hiccups and other curious behaviors -- Travels with Lowell -- The divine curse -- Dangerously well -- The aging brain -- Tea and toast -- Telling -- Kuru -- Note on tauopathies -- A summer of madness -- The lost virtues of the asylum -- Hunting horsetails -- Colorado Springs revisited -- Clupeophilia -- Greetings from the Island of Stability -- Botanists on Park -- The elephant's gait -- Orangutan -- Life continues -- Night of the ginkgo -- Filter fish -- Anybody out there? -- Pocket spectroscope

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