and it becomes increasingly clear that Sacks was that boy to the very end of his days, engaging, eagerly and with a never-ending sense of wonder, not only with science but with its history and the people who made it.

an unusual boy, one who had, as he puts it, an 'overwhelming sense of Truth and Beauty'. showcases the neurologist's infinitely curious mind.' -People Magazine 'Extraordinarily touching-not lacking in his habitual energy and driven curiosity, but somehow vulnerable, even fragile. '- Daniel Menaker, The New York Times Book Review 'Magical. It's hard to call to mind one dull passage in his work-one dull sentence, for that matter. He was and will remain a brilliant singularity. Life bursts through all of Oliver Sacks's writing. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place gives us an intimate portrait of a master writer and thinker at work.About the Book 'This is a Borzoi book.'-Title page verso.īook Synopsis 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. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks's love of the natural world - and his last meditations on life in the twenty-first century.

In several of the compassionate case histories collected here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette's syndrome, ageing, dementia, and hallucinations. Why do humans need gardens? How, and when, does a physician tell his patient she has Alzheimer's? What is social media doing to our brains? In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move.

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