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Featured Psychology Author: Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and the author of many books, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film). Interweaving science and case study, Hallucinations, his newest book, explores the varieties of hallucinatory experience. Visit our featured author page for a short list of the biographies that have inspired him.

Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: Hallucinations, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: An Anthropologist on Mars, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: The Mind's Eye, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: Awakenings, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: The Island of the Colorblind, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, Author: Christopher Payne
Book Cover Image. Title: Migraine: The Evolution of a Common Disorder, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: A Leg to Stand On, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Author: Oliver Sacks
Book Cover Image. Title: Seeing Voices, Author: Oliver Sacks

Alisa's Self-Help Picks

This Month's Picks

Inspiration comes in many packages, and Alisa, our self-help buyer, has a knack for finding the best of it -- including books on everything from coping with trauma to effectively balancing work and family life. Click here for the NOOK Book editions.

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Hallucinations
The Society of Timid Souls
Almost Anorexic
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Book Cover Image. Title: The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius, Author: Kristine Barnett
The Spark
Hardcover
Jake is a genius, with an IQ greater than Einstein's. He is also autistic, and for a time the predictions were that he'd be lucky if he could tie his shoes. Spark is the incredible account of how a mother, disregarding the authorities, nurtured her young son.
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Book Cover Image. Title: Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives, Author: John Elder Robison
Raising Cubby
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Book Cover Image. Title: With or Without You: A Memoir, Author: Domenica Ruta
With or Without You
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Book Cover Image. Title: She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me, Author: Emma Brockes
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Dive into our new "Mind Over Matter" collection for the latest on how the wiring of the brain shapes personality, what does (and doesn't) lead to success, a look at OCD from the inside out, and more.
Book Cover Image. Title: Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, Author: Sebastian Seung
Connectome
Sebastian Seung
Book Cover Image. Title: Outliers: The Story of Success, Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Book Cover Image. Title: Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Author: Fletcher Wortmann
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Fletcher Wortmann
Book Cover Image. Title: Interactive InDesign CS5: Take your Print Skills to the Web and Beyond, Author: Mira Rubin
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Mira Rubin