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Ian Slinger rated ALLERGY: THE HISTORY OF A MODERN MALADY.: 1 star
Ian Slinger rated A Mouthful of Air: 4 stars
A Mouthful of Air by Anthony Burgess
Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this …
Ian Slinger rated Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon: 4 stars
Ian Slinger rated Stumbling on Happiness: 4 stars
Ian Slinger rated Musicophilia: 3 stars
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind …
Ian Slinger rated Guitar: An American Life: 3 stars
Ian Slinger rated The man who mistook his wife for a hat: 3 stars
The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks, Margarida Trias
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …
Ian Slinger rated Seeing voices: 3 stars
Ian Slinger rated Awakenings: 3 stars
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the …
Ian Slinger rated The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less: 4 stars
Ian Slinger rated Bottlemania: 3 stars
Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte
Only now, with the bottled water industry trading in billions of dollars, have we begun to question the environmental and …