Tag: Oliver Sacks
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Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks
Hardback, Picador, £9.99, out now Gratitude is a final gift from the excellent neurologist and writer of popular science, Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015. These short but beautiful pieces encapsulate all that is best about his writing. Humane, kind, interesting and funny, they offer his reflections on a life well lived from one who…
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Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently, by Steve Silberman
Allen and Unwin, £16.99, paperback out now A worthy winner of the Samuel Johnson non-fiction book prize, this is a fascinating and highly readable history of autism. We also get to meet several interesting people affected by autism, and an invitation to reconsider what we think we know about it. Silberman, a journalist for Wired…