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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 with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, as well as with a group of patients who would define his life, it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters and travels - sending him through bars and alleys, over oceans, and across continents

El cervell i les seves possibilitats continua sent un dels enigmes científics mes intrigants per al conjunt de la humanitat. En aquest terreny, Oliver Sacks no tan sols es un expert mundial de primer ordre, sino que tambe s'ha erigit al llarg dels anys en un dels principals divulgadors dels secrets de la ment i de la consciencia. Seguint la linia oberta fa dues centuries per la tradicio dels anecdotaris clinics, a L'home que va confondre la seva dona amb un barret descriu amb precisio casos reals del seu dia a dia com a neuroleg: la sindrome de Tourette, l'autisme, l'agnosia visual, la malaltia de Parkinson, l'esquizofrenia, etc.

A remarkable celebration of Sackss varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose. From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sackss broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimers. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sackss myriad interests.

By the author of "Seeing Voices', this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks tells the history, offers his own observations and the patients' reactions

his memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for science - but it is told from the intimate and revelatory perspective of one of the most important and humane writers on psychology alive today. Oliver Sacks has the literary artistry of W.H. Auden and the intellectual rigour and questioning mind of Stephen Jay Gould. The world authority in his field, this is a remarkable insight into the mind and background of one of the finest and most accessible scientists today. Case history as literature, in the most personal, delightful and fascinating way possible.

Oliver Sacks has been described (by "The New York Times Book Review") as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century," and his books, including the medical classics Migraine and Awakenings, have been widely praised by critics from W. H. Auden to Harold Pinter to Doris Lessing. In his last book, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat", Dr. Sacks undertook a fascinating journey into the world of the neurologically impaired, an exploration that Noel Perrin in the "Chicago Sun-Times" called "wise, compassionate, and very literate...the kind that restore(s) one's faith in humanity."Now ...

Considerado uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo, Oliver Sacks nos presenta en su último libro siete casos neurológicos que constituyen una profunda reflexión sobre la esencia de la identidad y los mecanismos del conocimiento.En estas siete parábolas sobre la mutabilidad de la condición humana, Sacks demuestra otra vez su excepcional talento como narrador, su vastísima cultura y su capacidad para hacer que estos personajes a primera vista estrambóticos acaben pareciéndonos familiares y normales.