Everything in its place first loves and last tales
"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 sto...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.
