Oliver Sacks: 57 books

An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers. Oliver Sacks—called "the poet laureate of medicine" by the New York Times—illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series...

Das Vermächtnis eines großartigen Autors und Menschenkenners. Oliver Sacks hat mit seinen neurologischen Fallgeschichten Millionen Leser weltweit erreicht und ihr Denken verändert: Was auf den ersten Blick als krank oder abweichend erscheint, ermöglicht oft besondere Fähigkeiten der Wahrnehmung...

“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” —Oliver...

El hombre que confundió a su mujer con un sombrero se convirtió inmediatamente en un clásico y consagró a Oliver Sacks como «uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo» (The New York Times), como atestiguaron más tarde Un antropólogo en Marte y otros singularísimos textos. En este...

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks,...

«Sono un uomo dal carattere veemente, con violenti entusiasmi ed estrema smoderatezza in tutte le mie passioni» scriveva Oliver Sacks in un articolo apparso il 19 febbraio 2015 sul «New York Times», nel quale annunciava, con brutale sobrietà, di soffrire di un male incurabile. È quindi inevitabile...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “It is Dr. Sacks’s gift that he has found a way to enlarge our experience and understanding of what the human is.” —The Wall Street Journal Dubbed...

Oliver Sacks è un neurologo, ma il suo rapporto con la neurologia è simile a quello di Groddeck con la psicoanalisi. Perciò Sacks è anche molte altre cose: «Mi sento infatti medico e naturalista al tempo stesso; mi interessano in pari misura le malattie e le persone; e forse anche sono insieme,...

En febrero de 2015, Oliver Sacks recibió la noticia de que el melanoma que le habían diagnosticado en el ojo diez años antes había hecho me- tástasis y ahora le afectaba al hígado. Se trataba de un tipo de cáncer con muy pocas opciones de tratamiento, y los médicos le pronosticaron que no...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused...

Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming...

THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT brings together twenty-four of Oliver Sacks’ most fascinating and beloved case studies. The patients in these pages are confronted with almost inconceivably strange neurological disorders; in Sacks’ telling, their stories are a profound testament to the adaptability...

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. Drawn...

In questo libro Oliver Sacks abbandona il terreno dei disturbi neurologici per indagare un altro mondo, che generalmente viene ignorato: il mondo dei sordi. Qui, come in altri casi di menomazione, Sacks riesce a scoprire che il meno può anche nascondere un più: per esempio, una capacità acutissima...