Written by the author of 'The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat', this book begins with the history of deaf people in the 18th century, the often outrageous ways in which they have been treated in the past, and their continuing struggle for acceptance in a hearing world.

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

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

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: 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 evoca en este libro de memorias su ninez en Inglaterra. Cuando tenia seis anos estalla la Segunda Guerra Mundial y es enviado, junto con su hermano Michael, a un internado en el campo. Cuatro anos despues, a su regreso a Londres, Michael enloquece, y Oliver encuentra su salvacion personal en el mundo de la ciencia...read more

Product Description: The captivating subject of Oliver Sack's Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin's personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours.Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment...read more

Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and everyday people, the author of Awakenings explores the complex human response to music, detailing the full range of human reactions to music, what goes on and can go wrong when we listen to music, and how music can affect those suffering from a variety of ailments. Simultaneous.

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: 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. 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...read more

Product Description: A Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants. Ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes, and unlike seed plants, which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring, ferns reproduce by minute spores...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

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.

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

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: “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