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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

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.

A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. With an introduction by Will Self, read by Oliver Sacks. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot...

Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.

In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect - a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - Observer When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that of patient. The injury...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living...

Relato detalhado das experiências "neuroantropológicas" do autor junto a vítimas da "doença do sono", de seus esforços por tirá-las do letargo e compreender o mundo em que vivem mergulhadas. Usando uma nova droga, o neurologista Oliver Sacks conseguiu, entre 1969 e 1972, despertar vários...

A partir do exame de casos clínicos extraordinários, como o de um pintor que passa a enxergar em preto-e-branco em razão de um acidente ou o do rapaz que só consegue se lembrar dos anos 60, o neurologista elabora uma fascinante teoria da inteligência. O que têm em comum o pintor que, em...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . . From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication...

How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable...

A partir de histórias de pacientes com os mais diversos problemas de visão, este livro explora, de maneira original, o antigo dilema entre mente e cérebro. Com uma prosa límpida, que mescla rigor médico com referências à literatura, às artes e à história do pensamento, o autor relata...

A aguardada – e bem-humorada – autobiografia de um dos mais importantes pensadores de nossos tempos. Quando Oliver Sacks tinha doze anos, um professor escreveu em avaliação: "Sacks vai longe, se não for longe demais". Hoje está claro que ele jamais parou de avançar. Desde as primeiras...

A música é uma das experiências humanas mais assombrosas e inesquecíveis, e este livro do neurologista e escritor Oliver Sacks nos faz entender por quê. A exemplo de seus livros anteriores, entre os quais se destacam Tempo de despertar e O homem que confundiu sua mulher com um chapéu...

O último livro concebido por Sacks traz mais uma vez suas brilhantes reflexões sobre evolução, criatividade, tempo, consciência e experiência. Oliver Sacks nunca se restringiu a escrever sobre neurologia ou medicina: ele se entusiasmava com os problemas, as ideias e as questões de todas...

O cientista e neurologista Oliver Sacks é também um excelente narrador, dono do raro poder de compartilhar com o leitor leigo certos mundos que de outro modo permaneceriam desconhecidos ou restritos aos especialistas. Em O homem que confundiu sua mulher com um chapéu, estamos diante de...

Oliver Sacks apreende o drama da doença que o levou a morte de forma honesta e eloquente, em toda sua complexidade médica e humana. Durante os últimos meses de sua vida, Oliver Sacks escreveu uma série de ensaios nos quais explorou de maneira comovente seu percurso pessoal para concluir a...