Few people can claim to have made such a profound impact on the public understanding of the brain and its inner workings. In this book, Oliver Sacks describes his time at Oxford University, his time spent in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the early nineteen sixties, before moving on to chart his p[...]

In his most extraordinary book, ?one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century? (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stori[...]

In his most extraordinary audiobook, ?one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century? ("The New York Times") recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" tells [...]

From the bestselling author of "Musicophilia "and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," a provocative investigation into hallucinations--auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory--their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural resonances.
Hallucinations, for most [...]

An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers.Oliver Sackscalled "e;the poet laureate of medicine"e; by the New York Timesilluminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly [...]

Der in New York praktizierende Neuropsychologe Oliver Sacks erzählt 20 ergreifende Geschichten von Menschen, die aus der ?Normalität? gefallen sind. Eine winzige Hirnverletzung, ein kleiner Tumult in der zerebralen Chemie - und wir geraten in eine andere Welt. Hat sie weniger Existenzberechtigung,[...]

Nach "Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte" legt Oliver Sacks diese Sammlung von sieben neuen Fallgeschichten vor. Eindrucksvolle Gestalten begegnen dem Leser, feinfühlig porträtierte Menschen, die ihn nicht wieder loslassen, die in ihm weiterleben. Die Zeitschrift "bild der wissens[...]