Oaxaca Journal von Sacks, Oliver

'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,...

"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...

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"Geniale Störung: Die geheime Geschichte des Autismus und warum wir Menschen brauchen, die anders denken" von Oliver Sacks ist eine tiefgehende Untersuchung über Autismus und dessen Einfluss auf unsere Gesellschaft. Sacks, ein...

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,...

'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind' The TimesIn Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped...

"Bewusstseinsdämmerungen: Fallgeschichten zur Weckdroge L-Dopa" von Oliver Sacks ist eine Sammlung von Fallstudien, die sich auf Patienten konzentrieren, die an Parkinson-Krankheit und anderen neurologischen Störungen leiden. Das Buch...

In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such...

In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens? How,...

"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" ist ein faszinierendes Werk von Oliver Sacks, das die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Musik und dem menschlichen Gehirn erforscht. Das Buch enthält eine Sammlung von Fallstudien und persönlichen...

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...