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2) The road
A father and his son...
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good...
6) Stella Maris
“Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.”...
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled
...19) The mind's eye
“Elaborate and gorgeously detailed.... Again and again, Sacks invites readers to imagine their way into...