Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date....

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder....

Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury....

No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks....

Awakenings - which inspired the motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the epidemic just after World War I....

Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life....

From its opening minutes on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy....

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's....

A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor....

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....

An exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals....

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....

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture....

Dr. Oliver Sacks' books have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disordersIn A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient....

Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why....

Una serie di casi clinici che ha lo stesso fascino delle Mille e una notte. Con straordinaria empatia e umanità, Sacks racconta...