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The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements.
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How to Toot Your Horn
- De Kenneth en 07-01-13
De: Sanjiv Chopra, y otros
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Truth Doesn't Have a Side
- My Alarming Discovery About the Danger of Contact Sports
- De: Dr. Bennet Omalu, Mark Tabb, Will Smith - foreword
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
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One day in 2002 the 50-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster's body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death were clouded in mystery. But when Omalu cut into Webster's brain, it appeared to be normal. Something didn't add up.
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Truly Enlightening
- De Marie en 01-31-20
De: Dr. Bennet Omalu, y otros
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- De: Don Lattin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now". Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counterculture icon and LSD guru.
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- De Gillian Culff en 12-12-19
De: Don Lattin
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And So It Goes
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
- De: Charles J. Shields
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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Probably only for die hard Vonnegut fans
- De Watery M en 12-22-12
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Nothing Was the Same
- A Memoir
- De: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison---who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion---could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.
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Liked the story better than the narrator
- De Pamela Harvey en 07-22-11
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Labyrinths
- Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
- De: Catrine Clay
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the 20th century dictated that a woman of Emma's stature - one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland - travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father's wealthy business colleagues, Emma's conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung.
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Carl plays center stage
- De Sparrowhawk en 12-23-16
De: Catrine Clay
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The Center Cannot Hold
- De: Elyn R. Saks
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. In The Center Cannot Hold, Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health-care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success.
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Schizophrenia Inside Out
- De Pamela Harvey en 07-23-09
De: Elyn R. Saks
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Identical Strangers
- A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
- De: Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo, Effie Johnson
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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This is the astonishing true story of Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who shared a personal history for more than three decades - and didn't know it. In her mid-30s, Schein finally decided to call an adoption agency to learn about her biological mother. Not expecting much, she instead got the surprise of her life. Her identical twin sister, Bernstein, lived just minutes away.
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What if you are a twin and don't know it?
- De Joanne en 07-15-08
De: Elyse Schein, y otros
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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Gratitude
- Essays
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 36 m
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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.
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To the Point, Yet Told From the Heart
- De LJT en 01-18-16
De: Oliver Sacks
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The Mind's Eye
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Oliver Sacks, Richard Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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An exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals - including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the score, and a neurobiologist born with crossed eyes who, late in life, suddenly acquires binocular vision, and how her brain adapts to that new skill.
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Same ole Sacks--great yarns as usual.
- De Rlelli07 en 10-26-10
De: Oliver Sacks
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia
- Tales of Music and the Brain
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does - humans are a musical species.
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The Best Of Sacks...
- De Douglas en 11-23-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Hallucinations
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
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Not Just Hallucinations
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-05-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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Awakenings
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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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 Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.
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- De Douglas en 09-01-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Gratitude
- Essays
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 36 m
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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.
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To the Point, Yet Told From the Heart
- De LJT en 01-18-16
De: Oliver Sacks
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The Mind's Eye
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Oliver Sacks, Richard Davidson
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An exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals - including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the score, and a neurobiologist born with crossed eyes who, late in life, suddenly acquires binocular vision, and how her brain adapts to that new skill.
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- De Rlelli07 en 10-26-10
De: Oliver Sacks
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia
- Tales of Music and the Brain
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: John Lee
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does - humans are a musical species.
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The Best Of Sacks...
- De Douglas en 11-23-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Hallucinations
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
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Not Just Hallucinations
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-05-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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Awakenings
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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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 Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.
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- De Douglas en 09-01-12
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
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I rarely stop reading a book halfway through...
- De Rusty en 09-04-15
De: Oliver Sacks
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seven Paradoxical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
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SACKS IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY !!
- De Jeff en 09-22-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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Uncle Tungsten
- Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling 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 eloquent memoir, the he chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.
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- De Jeff en 05-02-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Migraine
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
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Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.
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- De BW724 en 06-25-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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A Leg to Stand On
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey.
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- De John S. en 08-17-11
De: Oliver Sacks
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Seeing Voices
- A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect - a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.
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A Rich Experience
- De Douglas en 11-27-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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The Prince of Medicine
- Galen in the Roman Empire
- De: Susan P. Mattern
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129-ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure.
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- De Jean en 07-27-14
De: Susan P. Mattern
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The River of Consciousness
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren, Kate Edgar
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.
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Important but Less Interesting
- De Michael en 11-16-17
De: Oliver Sacks
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Projections
- A Story of Human Emotions
- De: Karl Deisseroth
- Narrado por: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.
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- De aaron en 08-28-21
De: Karl Deisseroth
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The Nature of the Beast
- De: David J. Anderson
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them. In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness. In The Nature of the Beast, pioneering neuroscientist David J. Anderson describes a new approach to solving this problem.
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Neuroscience at it’s best!
- De Ulrike Griebel en 10-29-23
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Trauma
- The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal from It
- De: Paul Conti
- Narrado por: Tim Fannon
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Imagine, if you will, a disease - one that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice; one that transfers easily between parent and child; one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize trauma: as an out-of-control epidemic with a potentially fatal prognosis. In Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti examines the most recent research, clinical best practices, and dozens of real-life stories to present a deeper, richer, and more urgent view of trauma.
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A simple intro book on trauma
- De Peter Bagi en 10-12-21
De: Paul Conti
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
- De: Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson
- Narrado por: Daniel Goleman
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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Two New York Times best-selling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last 20 years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard J Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us.
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Couldn't Make it Past the Two Hour Mark
- De E. A. Jacques en 12-14-17
De: Daniel Goleman, y otros
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- Sue H.
- 07-29-15
Moved by On the Move
A fascinating look into the life of a very special man. A rare combination of huge intelligence with amazing powers of story telling. Why didn't the narrator have an English accent?
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- CF
- 05-27-19
a wonderful autobiography
As an adjunct professor and teacher I taught all of her sacks has books. they were wonderful autobiographies of his life and work and the countless people that he has helped. In this very revealing autobiography and memoir Oliver sacks reveals the person that he is inside and not just the doctor. I believe that his life and his work is the basis for the show ,House, that everybody love so much or love so much. we miss him but know that while alive. he truly did live and help others.
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- Timbo
- 09-08-15
Narrattion
Narrator should have been British as was Oliver and there were too many audio patches
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-16-15
Interesting book about an extraordinary man
This is avery open and complete story of a very brilliant but down to earth human being. This book is extremely well written and the passages bring to mind the scenes that were witnessed by the author. I recommend this book to any literate individual.
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- M. Larsen
- 05-21-15
Intellectually intriguing, emotionally moving read
I just finished and I am in awe of Mr. Sacks' drive, his intellect, his extraordinary talent to communicate complex ideas in ways that engage a lay person such as myself. The emotional poignancy is searing. The strong performance holds up well to the power of the story.
I read this book at a crossroads in my own life and I feel it has brought clarity to my own pending decisions in a very powerful yet unexpected way that I suspect I will ponder the serendipity of for years to come.
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- SomervilleWhereElse
- 05-26-15
Wonderful book, wrong narrator
This wonderful book is adequately read, but would be much improved by a performer with an English accent. I realize Oliver Sacks, doesn't want to or is not able to, read his own, but John Lee would be a fine replacement for him.
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- Chenpo
- 05-15-15
Wonderful memoir
Oliver Sacks is one of my intellectual heroes. This memoir of his is very welcome, as it gives further insight into how his mind works and who he is: brilliant, unpretentious, somewhat regretful, enthusiastic, profoundly curious and compassionate.
If you are coming across this without knowing Dr. Sacks’ oeuvre, I suggest you first start with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and/or An Anthropologist on Mars, and then either read Awakenings or watch the wonderful movie starring Robin Williams as Dr. Sacks, Robert DeNiro as a post-encephalitic patient, and Marge Simpson as his nurse, and only then dive into this book. As an aside, Dr. Sacks was amazed at how well Robin Williams captured his persona.
In order to fully appreciate this wonderful memoir, you must be interested in neurology, and it would be good to also have some interest in the literary mind and process of writing; you must also not be put off by Dr. Sacks’ description of a few sexual encounters.
Narration was good, except that I question (as do others) the curious choice of an American to voice Dr. Sacks, who has a distinctive English voice. I also wish that the narrator would have researched some of the foreign words that he mispronounces -- a minor and mostly irrelevant point, but a pet peeve.
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- Matthew Zepelin
- 06-14-19
Great book, strange choice for reader
I loved listening to Sacks’s autobiography. Though I got used to it, I find it very odd that they commissioned a rather gruff-sounding American to read it, as it’s such a mismatch to Sacks’s very distinctive nasal English accent. Still well worth the listen.
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- Charlotte Blank
- 06-22-16
What a badass!
Quite A Life indeed! Oliver Sachs was such a badass. Good story and a good synopsis of all his earlier books. Excellent narrator, but why no British accent?
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- Nicholas A. H. Snyder
- 06-04-15
Great book, but strange choice of narration.
Very interesting story of an incredible man. I share the opinion of many reviewers that that narrator should have been English. Dan Woren did a fine job but it made me overly aware that I was listening to someone read the book, rather than allowing myself to be engulfed by it. This, however, is not a good enough reason to avoid the audiobook. Now I'm considering diving into some of Dr. Sacks' other works.
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