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"Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling 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 author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his "Uncle Tungsten," whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes'in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery."@en
"Oliver Sacks a toujours exploré la richesse inédite de l'expérience humaine à travers des récits de cas. C'est avec la même curiosité et le même désir de comprendre qu'il se penche ici sur l'enfant qu'il a été, et la passion qu'il a éprouvée pour la chimie."
"Best known for the tales of his experiences as a clinical neurologist, Oliver Sacks has a special gift for conveying the humanity and hopes of patients struggling with sometimes bizarre mental disorders. In his memoir, he writes with the same enthusiasm and empathy about his boyhood infatuation with chemistry. As a youth, Sacks was insatiably curious about the properties of chemical substances and was ardently encouraged by his family, especially his Uncle Dave, nicknamed "Uncle Tungsten" for the light bulbs he manufactured with tungsten wire filaments. Delighting in the experiments that he conducted, Sacks also read about and clearly idolized the great chemists. His book is much more than just the lab notes of a junior chemist, though. It is also about growing up Jewish and coming of age in London during the wartime years."@en
"Long before Oliver Sacks became a neurologist and one of our finest science writers, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals -- and also by chemical reactions, the louder and smellier the better. His curiosity was encouraged and abetted by brilliantly quirky relatives: Auntie Len, who taught him that the beauty of numbers can be found in the spiral face of a sunflower; Uncle Dave, who invited the boy to his light-bulb factory; and two older brothers who entertained him by making ammonium dichromate "volcanoes." But Sacks's childhood was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was evacuated from London and sent to live in a boarding school that rivaled Dickens's grimmest creations. He was sustained through those difficult years by his passion for learning and for finding patterns in the world around him. Overflowing with humor, sadness, sensuous recollection, and the almost physical rapture of discovery, Uncle Tungsten re-creates the wonder of science as it is first experienced and chronicles the birth of an extraordinary and original mind."
"Long before Oliver Sacks became a neurologist and one of our finest science writers, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals -- and also by chemical reactions, the louder and smellier the better. His curiosity was encouraged and abetted by brilliantly quirky relatives: Auntie Len, who taught him that the beauty of numbers can be found in the spiral face of a sunflower; Uncle Dave, who invited the boy to his light-bulb factory; and two older brothers who entertained him by making ammonium dichromate "volcanoes." But Sacks's childhood was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was evacuated from London and sent to live in a boarding school that rivaled Dickens's grimmest creations. He was sustained through those difficult years by his passion for learning and for finding patterns in the world around him. Overflowing with humor, sadness, sensuous recollection, and the almost physical rapture of discovery, Uncle Tungsten re-creates the wonder of science as it is first experienced and chronicles the birth of an extraordinary and original mind."@en
"Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling 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 author chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother, who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection, and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his "Uncle Tungsten," whose factory produces tungsten-filament light bulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes, in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery."@en
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"A memoir of the scientific wonder of youth by the distinguished neurologist and author describes his fascination with metals, gasses, and chemicals, especially "Uncle Tungsten," and with unravelling the complex mysteries of the world around him."

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"Biographies"
"Biografia"
"Autobiografia"
"Livres électroniques"
"Herinneringen (vorm)"
"Autobiographie 1933-1947"
"Electronic books"@en
"Biography"@en
"Biography"
"Literatura i medicina"

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"ha-Dod Ṭungsṭen : khimiyah shel zikhronot yaldut"
"El tío tungsteno : recuerdos de un químico precoz"@es
"Oom Wolfraam en mijn chemische jeugd : autobiografie"
"Oom Wolfraam en mijn chemische jeugd autobiografie"
"Wu si jiu jiu : shao nian Aolifo Sakesi de hua xue ai lian"
"הדוד טונגסטן"
"鎢絲舅舅 : 少年奧立佛.薩克斯的化學愛戀"
"Tio tungsteno"
"Onkel Wolfram : Erinnerungen"
"Uncle tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood"@en
"Herinneringen aan mijn chemische jeugd : autobiografie"
"Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood : Oliver Sacks"@en
"Oncle tungstène"
"Ŏngk'ŭl T'ŏngsŭt'en : kkoma Ollibŏ ŭi kwahak sŏngjanggi"
"엉클텅스텐 : 꼬마올리버의과학성장기"
"Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood"@en
"Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood"
"Zio Tungsteno : ricordi di un'infanzia chimica"
"Zio Tungsteno : ricordi di un'infanzia chimica"@it
"El tío Tungsteno: recuerdos de un químico precoz"@es
"Uncle Tungsten"
"Oncle Tungstène"
"Wu si jiu jiu : shao nian ao li fo.sa ke si de hua xue ai lian"
"Tungsten dayı : Kimyasal bir çocukluğun anıları :yaşantı"
"鎢絲舅舅 : 少年奧立佛. 薩克斯的化學愛戀"
"Tio Tungstênio : memórias de uma infância química"@pt
"Tio Tungstênio : memórias de uma infância química"
"El tío Tungsteno : recuerdos de un químico precoz"@es
"El Tío Tungsteno : recuerdos de un químico precoz"
"Onkel Wolfram Erinnerungen"
"Zio tungsteno : ricordi di un'infanzia chimica"
"Uncle Tungsten Memories of a Chemical Boyhood"
"Uncle Tungsten Memories of a Chemical Boyhood"@en
"Uncle Tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood"@en
"Uncle Tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood"

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