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9780307957245 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 6, 2012, cover price $26.95
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9780307967329 | Unabridged edition (Random House, November 6, 2012), cover price $35.00
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9780520274914 | 2 edition (Univ of California Pr, August 15, 2012), cover price $24.95
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9780307473028 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $15.00 | also contains The Mind's Eye | About this edition: With compassion and insight, Dr.
Miscellaneous:
9780307594556 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 26, 2010, cover price $26.95
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9781590514597 | Other Pr Llc, September 7, 2010, cover price $20.99
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9780676979794 | Rev exp edition (Vintage, September 23, 2008), cover price $21.00 | also contains Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain | About this edition: What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music?
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9780307267917 | Vintage Books, September 23, 2008, cover price $15.95
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9780671554712, titled "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales" | Summit Books, December 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality
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9780684853949 | Touchstone Books, April 2, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality
9780060970796 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1987), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality
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9781559943680 | Harperaudio, November 1, 1990, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of fascinating clinical tales that present a humorous and touching investigation into the human mind, 2 cassettes.
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9781439503058 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A major bestseller and already acclaimed as a science classic, this collection of 20 true tales of individuals stricken with astonishing neurological disorders has sold over 70,000 copies.
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Amazon.com Review: Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant siblings, most notably "Uncle Tungsten" (real name, Dave), who "manufactured lightbulbs with filaments of fine tungsten wire...read more
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9780786241484 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A memoir of the scientific wonder of youth by the distinguished neurologist and author describes his fascination with metals, gasses, and chemicals, expecially 'Uncle Tungsten,' and with unravelling the complex mysteries of the world around him.
9780375404481 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780375704048 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A memoir of the scientific wonder of youth by the distinguished neurologist and author describes his fascination with metals, gasses, and chemicals, and with unravelling the complex mysteries of the world around him.
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9780606286688 | Demco Media, July 1, 2003, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: A memoir of the scientific wonder of youth by the distinguished neurologist and author describes his fascination with metals, gasses, and chemicals, and with unravelling the complex mysteries of the world around him.
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9781435297364 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780613708715 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: A memoir of the scientific wonder of youth by the distinguished neurologist and author describes his fascination with metals, gasses, and chemicals, and with unravelling the complex mysteries of the world around him.
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9780393064988 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects forty-four key segments from the late paleontologist and evolutionary biologist's books, papers, and essays, in a collection that includes an assortment of previously unpublished articles and speeches.
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9781426201608 | Natl Geographic Society, April 17, 2007, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A literary travel memoir recounts the author's odyssey to the Mexican province of Oaxaca with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts as he offers a portrait of the region, its people, and its many natural wonders.
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9781417765010 | Turtleback Books, January 10, 2006, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Temple Grandin, Ph.
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9780792265214 | Natl Geographic Society, March 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A literary travel memoir by the acclaimed neurologist and author of Awakenings recounts his odyssey to the Mexican province of Oaxaca witha group of fellow fern enthusiasts as he offers an insightful portrait of the region, its people, and its many natural wonders.
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9780792242086 | Natl Geographic Society, October 1, 2005, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A literary travel memoir by the acclaimed neurologist recounts his odyssey to the Mexican province of Oaxaca with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts, offering a portrait of the region, its people, and its many natural wonders.
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9780472030828 | Univ of Michigan Pr, July 15, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Using case studies drawn from her own practice and personal experience, the author delves into the condition of chronic pain in order to help readers understand its complexities.
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9788433962195 | Editorial Anagrama, July 1, 2005, cover price $47.90 | About this edition: Este libro relata la extraordinaria historia de un grupo de veinte pacientes ingresados en el hospital Monte carmelo de Nuevas York, supervivientes de la gran epidemia de encefalitis letargica que alcanzo dimensiones planetarias en los anos veinte del siglo pasado, y del asombroso y subito despertar que experimentaron, cuarenta anos despues, gracias al Dr.
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9781400033973 | Vintage Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A compelling compilation of writings by the neurologist-author of Awakenings includes 'Uncle Tungsten,' 'Stinks and Bangs,' and 'Cannery Row' from Uncle Tungsten, as well as a selection of excerpts from Seeing Voices, Awakenings, The ISland of the Colorblind, and Migraine.
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9780066211633 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
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9780060936518 | Perennial, September 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.
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9789706517159 | Oceano De Mexico, June 1, 2003, cover price $16.19
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A literary travel memoir recounts the author's odyssey to the Mexican province of Oaxaca with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts as he offers a portrait of the region, its people, and its many natural wonders.
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9788482982861 | Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A literary travel memoir recounts the author's odyssey to the Mexican province of Oaxaca with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts as he offers a portrait of the region, its people, and its many natural wonders.
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9780520060838 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A renowned neurologist investigates the world of the deaf, examining their past and present treatment at the hands of society, and assesses the value of sign language
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9780375704079 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A neurologist investigates the world of the deaf, examining their past and present treatment at the hands of society, and assesses the value and significance of sign language.
9780060973476 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1990), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A renowned neurologist investigates the world of the deaf, examining their past and present treatment at the hands of society, and assesses the value and significance of sign language
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9781559942775 | Harperaudio, September 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the results is a beautiful, moving book that not only takes readers into the unfathomable world of the deaf, but offers a dee ply felt portraits of a minority struggle for recognition and respect.
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9780520081017 | Rev exp su edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1992), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Describes the symptoms and history of migraine headaches, identifies foods and conditions which may provoke attacks, and discusses the possible treatments
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9780375704062 | Rev exp edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Awakenings describes the symptoms and history of migraine headaches, identifies the foods and conditions that may provoke attacks, and examines possible treatments for this devastating ailment.
9780520082236 | Rev exp edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes the symptoms and history of migraine headaches, identifies foods and conditions which may provoke attacks, and discusses the possible treatments
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9780809590353 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks.
9780844662770 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, January 1, 1990, cover price $25.50 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780671648343 | Reissue edition (Summit Books, September 1, 1987), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Describes the effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients with encephalitic Parkinsonism
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9780375704055 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism
9780060973681 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 1990), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Describes the effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients with encephalitic Parkinsonism
9780525483502 | Reissue edition (E P Dutton, September 1, 1987), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks.
9780394716459 | New rev edition (Random House Inc, July 1, 1976), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Describes the effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients with encephalitic Parkinsonism
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9781559943697 | Harperaudio, December 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks.
9780804511766 | Unabridged edition (Spoken Arts, December 1, 1987), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This is an extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks.
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9783700127406 | Austrian Academy of Sciences, March 1, 1999, cover price $24.95
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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780517356890, titled "The Island of the Colorblind" | Random House Value Pub, January 1, 1999, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor.
9780517278956 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780679452485, titled "The Island of the Colorblind" | Abridged edition (Random House, January 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author describes his journey to the islands of the Pacific, recounting a stay on an island inhabited by an isolated colorblind community and his investigation into a baffling neurodegenerative paralysis on Guam.
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9789706511508 | Oceano De Mexico, June 1, 1998, cover price $21.50
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9780671467807 | Simon & Schuster, July 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A neurologist describes his struggle to recover from a mountain climbing accident and examines the effects of a neural injury on the sense of self
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9780684853956 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 29, 1998), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A neurologist describes his struggle to recover from a mountain climbing accident and examines the effects of a neural injury on the sense of self
9780060925444 | Reissue edition (Perennial, May 1, 1994), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: In this, the most personal of all his books, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells the story of an injury he sustained while climbing a mountain in Norway and the terrifying, bizarre aftermath when he realised with horror that his leg felt alienated.
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