Ergebnis für "Oliver Sacks" in Unterhaltung & Stars

Er ist einer der größten deutschen Filmstars, dreht internationale Kino- und Serienhits und hat Fans auf der ganzen Welt. Dass aus Oliver Masucci noch was wurde, danach sah es lange nicht aus. In den 1970ern als "Itaker"-Kind verspottet, selbst von der eigenen Familie nie ernstgenommen. Es ist die unwahrscheinliche Aufstiegsgeschichte eines Gastarbeiterkindes im deutsch-italienischen Kulturmischmasch. Heimat al dente sozusagen. Oliver Masucci erzählt vom Kampf um Anerkennung, vom Schauspielerleben zwischen Bochum und Hollywood und davon, dass Pasta einfach glücklich macht.

Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals - also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the he chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.

Oliver Sacks is well known as an explorer of the human mind - a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants and their ability to survive and adapt in many climates. Oaxaca Journal is Sacks' spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca, Mexico.

How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and...

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings...