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On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.
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Title:On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.
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Author/Creator:Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author.
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Published/Created:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
©2015.
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Call Number: WZ100 .S2254 2015
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Call Number: WZ100 .S121 2015
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Library of Congress Subjects:Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Neurologists--England--Biography.
Neurologists--United States--Biography.
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Medical Subjects: Neurosciences--history.
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Genre/Form:Autobiographies.
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Edition:First edition.
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Description:397 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Summary:Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists--Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick--who influenced him.
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Notes:"This is a Borzoi book."
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780385352543 hardcover
0385352549 hardcover
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Contents:On the move
Leaving the nest
San Francisco
Muscle beach
Out of reach
Awakenings
The bull on the mountain
A matter of identity
City island
Voyages
A new vision of the mind
Home.