Product Description: No vemos con los ojos, sino con el cerebro; de ahi que muchas veces veamos cosas que no estan delante de nosotros, cosas que llamamos apariciones, fantasmas o visiones, conceptos que obedecen al termino generico de «alucinaciones»...read more

Product Description: 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 best sellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat...read more

Product Description: “Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book.” — A. Alvarez, The Observer 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...read more

Product Description: “Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book.” ― A...read more

Product Description: Desde hace anos, Oliver Sacks es el explorador y magnifico cronista de un raro planeta de fronteras inciertas. Un universo poblado por gentes a las que un accidente o la enfermedad han confinado en los dificiles territorios de la locura, la diferencia, la extraneza...read more

Product Description: Este libro relata la extraordinaria historia de un grupo de veinte pacientes ingresados en el Hospital Monte Carmelo de Nueva York, supervivientes de la gran epidemia de encefalitis letargica que alcanzo dimensiones planetarias en los anos veinte del siglo pasado, y del asombroso y subito despertar que experimentaron cuarenta anos mas tarde gracias al doctor Oliver Sacks, que les administro l-dopa, un medicamento de reciente aparicion por aquel entonces en el mercado...read more

Product Description: «Mi sentimiento predominante es el de gratitud. He amado y he sido amado; he recibido mucho y he dado algo a cambio», escribe Oliver Sacks en uno de estos cuatro ensayos escritos en los ultimos dos anos de su vida y en los que se enfrenta a la vejez, la enfermedad y la muerte con extraordinaria elegancia y lucidez...read more

Product Description: Tras su celebrado Con tal de no morir, el autor nos entrega un segundo libro de relatos en el que vuelve a brillar la peculiar fusion de lo cotidiano y lo extrano, lo humoristico y lo patetico, en titulos como A su edad, una incisiva parabola contemporanea, o Un sueno de la diosa, con su sugestivo trasfondo hindu...read more

Product Description: Oliver Sacks siempre se ha sentido atraido por las islas. En su ultima obra, esta fascinacion le lleva mas lejos que nunca, a las remotas islas del Pacifico, donde concilia su aficion a explorar el mundo real con su pasion por investigar el mundo de la mente...read more

Product Description: Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace...read more

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 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; patients no longer able to recognize people and common objects; patients stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; patients whose limbs have become alien; patients who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Millones de personas de todo el mundo sufren de migranas, y, sin embargo, sigue siendo una enfermedad tan impredecible y variable en sus sintomas y su fisiologia, que constituye un serio desafio para la profesion medica. Durante siglos se ha confundido con la locura o la epilepsia, se ha marcado como psicosomatica, y algunas alucinaciones incluso se han confundido con visiones misticas...read more

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 senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.From the Hardcover edition.