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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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 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: 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

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.