Summary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLISacks, Oliver
Summary: "The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his intimate thoughts on life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family and scientists over the decades A prolific correspondent, Dr. Oliver Sacks--who describes himself variously in these pages as "a philosophical physician," "an astronomer of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Awakenings: The story of the consequences of a maverick doctor's medical miracle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Sacks, Oliver
Summary: "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.9 SACSacks, Oliver
Summary: Inside this Instaread of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: - Overview of the book - Important People - Key Takeaways - Analysis of Key Takeaways
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Publisher / Publication Date: iDreamBooks Inc 2015