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Fixing My Gaze
When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view …
An Anthropologist on Mars
As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which …
A Journey Round My Skull
The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest caf , wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was …
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the …
Seeing Voices
'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing …
The Man with a Shattered World
Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man’s heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the …
The Island of the Colour-blind
'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' – Sunday Times Always fascinated by …
Man who mistook his wife for a hat
A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews is one of the most bizarre case studies in the annals of psychiatry. Often cited as the first thorough case …
Exiting Nirvana
The author of The Siege';provides readers with what is perhaps . . . the finest exposition of a parent's decades-long experience with a child with autism' (Jeffrey L. Geller, MD, …