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Theodore Roszak,
The Cult of Information (Pantheon Books, 1986)
Computer folklore and the true art of thinking.
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Oliver Sacks,
Awakenings (Picador, 1982)
Neurologist brings zombie-like victims of the so-called sleeping-illness miraculously back to life.
The film stars Robert de Niro and Robert Williams.
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Kenneth Hsü,
The Great Dying (Harcourt Brace, 1986)
The best book ever written about the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Jonathan Evan Maslow,
Bird of Life, Bird of Death (Simon & Schuster, 1986)
A naturalist's journey through a land of political turmoil.
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Harold Klawans,
Toscanini's Fumble (Contemporary Books, 1988)
Neurological case-histories. Better than The man who mistook his wife for a hat
by Oliver Sacks.
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Harold Klawans,
Newton's Madness (Harper & Row, 1990)
More problems of minds in disarray. Was Newton mad? Read it!
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