Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks

Everything in Its Place by Oliver SacksFrom the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move. 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. 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 several of the compassionate case histories

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it is one of the best books ever written about Irish life

' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse

and build a better world

McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation

Introducing children to the responsibility and fun that comes with owning a dog

in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' ageThe idea that nothing happens by chance in history

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Those eyes are fixed on someone

birdsong and shifting skies are luminously recorded as the world falls silent

Rainbow Milk is a bold exploration of race