An Anthropologist on Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W Sacks
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car a ...Show more
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W Sacks
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloq ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver W Sacks
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage
"Awakenings"--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sa ...Show more
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver W. Sacks
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace.Drawn to the ...Show more
Migraine by Oliver W Sacks
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage
"Balanced, authoritative . . . brilliant." --"The London Times" "Written by one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century, Migraine . . . should be read as much for its brilliant insights into the nature of our mental functioning as for its discussion of the migraine." --"The New York Times ...Show more
The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutation of Culture by Alessandro Baricco
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Category: Contemporary Thought
From one of Italy's most respected literary voices, a manifesto on the state of global culture and how connectivity is changing the way we experience it. For the gatekeepers of traditional high culture, the rise of young ambitious outsiders has indeed seemed like nothing short of a barbarian invasion. I ...Show more
Think Like A Freak by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
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Category: Contemporary Thought
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder, and different - thinking, that is, like a Freak. T ...Show more
Things A Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind by Biz Stone
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Category: Contemporary Thought
From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter-the social media platform that single ...Show more
Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
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Category: Contemporary Thought
In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes until 2 a.m., frantically (but surreptitiously) sent important emails during school trips and then worked long into the night after her children were in bed. Realising she had become someone who constantly burst in late, trai ...Show more
The Simple Life by Rhonda Hetzel
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Specials
Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal, learning traditional skills, reducing ...Show more
What About Me? The Struggle For Identity In A Market-Based Society by Paul Verhaeghe
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Category: Contemporary Thought
According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is ...Show more