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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But... (more)

Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies

Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies

by Jami Bernard

Worshiped like a film star by fans of his ultrahip and violent movies, reviled and condemned by the self-appointed guardians of mortality, Quentin Tarantino has become the cult hero of the nineties. Using exclusive material from her interviews with Tarantino and those close to him, Jami Bernard traces his fascinating rise from high school dropout and B-movie junkie to the darling Hollywood, exploring the... (more)

With the Jocks

by Peter White

This book provides a rare opportunity to read an authentic and finely crafted evocation of the horrors of war experienced by a British soldier in the greatest conflict of the twentieth century.

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

by Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she’s an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life. Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first... (more)

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