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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 274pages 24cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780451492890 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Everything in its placeDDC classification:
  • 616.80092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • RC339.52.S23 A29 2019
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.
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions 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, 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, all told with his characteristic compassion, erudition, and luminous prose"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

"From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passions 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, 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, all told with his characteristic compassion, erudition, and luminous prose"-- Provided by publisher.

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