Revised and ExpandedWith 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 brain and how it affects the human condition. In...

"Was geschieht in unserem Kopf, wenn wir - ohne es zu wollen - phantastische Geschichten wahrnehmen oder Muster und Gestalten sehen? Wodurch unterscheiden sich solche Halluzinationen von realen Erfahrungen oder von Traumerlebnissen? Gibt...

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia,...

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. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly,...

Zwischen 1916 und 1927 grassierte weltweit eine Epidemie der sogenannten Europäischen Schlafkrankheit, eine Gehirnkrankheit, die neben fast fünf Millionen Toten unzählige schwergeschädigte Menschen hinterließ. Der Neuropsychologe Oliver...

'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph 'Profoundly moving' Observer Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia,...

'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to...

Zu Beginn begegnen wir dem Autor auf einer Wanderung in den norwegischen Bergen. Das Urlaubsidyll verwandelt sich jäh in eine Katastrophe: In einer gottverlassenen Gegend verletzt sich Sacks ein Bein. Unter unsäglichen Schmerzen kriecht...

Die Zeitschrift "Bild der Wissenschaft" kürte 1995 in der Rubrik Unterhaltung "Eine Anthropologin auf dem Mars" zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres. Die Begründung: Das Buch, das ein Thema am spannendsten präsentiert: "In sieben spannenden...

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. In this extraordinary book, Dr Oliver Sacks recounts the stories...

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories'...