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We don’t see with our eyes, but with our mind; that’s why we often ‘see’ things that aren’t actually there, things that we file under the generic term ‘hallucinations’. Hallucinations don't have to be visual, as Oliver Sacks explains in his new and fascinating...

Oliver Sacks in his letters: a riot of talent, wit, curiosity, empathy, and passion. Sacks's correspondence evokes traumatic episodes from his childhood, discusses his hobbies—weightlifting and motorcycles—his travels, his scientific research into the mysteries of the brain, the upheavals of his private life, and...

Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Combining Sacks' enthusiasm for natural history and the richness of humanity with his sharp and observant eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is...

This extraordinary revelation of a book became an instant classic and established Sacks as “one of the greatest clinical writers of the century” (The New York Times). Sacks narrates twenty case studies of patients lost in the strange world of neurological diseases, individuals who...

Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on...

From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with Oliver Sacks' restless energy. He recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in...

No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a...

Millions of people from around the world suffer from migraines, and yet it remains an illness so unpredictable and variable in its symptoms and physiology that it constitutes a serious challenge for the medical profession. For centuries it has been confused with madness or...

With 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. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest...

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks's myriad interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose. /...

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly...

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 culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication. /...