SACKS OLIVER

(P/B) THE MIND'S EYE
How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world - and The Mind's Eye i...
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SEEING VOICES
'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar -- for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing learn to categorize th...
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(P/B) A LEG TO STAND ON
When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position - that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control. A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks' ordeal and subsequent recovery, and...
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(H/B) EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE
From the bestselling 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, dementia, and Alzheimer's. 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 Sacks's myriad interests. (From the publi...
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(P/B) THE ISLAND OF THE COLOUR-BLIND
Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees - and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical. (From the publisher)...
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ΞΥΠΝΗΜΑΤΑ
Το χειμώνα του 1916 ξεσπά η επιδημία της ληθαργικής εγκεφαλίτιδας, που πρώτος περιγράφει ο Κ. φον Εκονόμο στη Βιέννη. Πολλοί άρρωστοι πεθαίνουν. Χιλιάδες βυθίζονται σε μια κατάσταση παράξενου και οριστικού λήθαργου. Πολλές δεκαετίες αργότερα ο Σακς συναντά αυτούς τους ανίατους αρρώστους σε ένα άσυλο των περιοχών της Ν. Υόρκης. Το 1967 ο Γ. Κοτζιάς δοκιμάζει πρώτος ένα θαυματουργό φάρμακο στην Αμερική. Τα αποτελέσματά του είναι θεαματικά: οι ασθενείς αυτοί ξυπνούν, ξαναρχίζουν να μιλούν, να περπατούν, ξαναβρίσκουν τη χαρά της ζωής. Κατακλύζ...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
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 of richly acclaimed books, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and numerous The New Yorker articles. In this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Oliver Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer. (From the publisher)...
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Η ΔΙΚΗ ΜΟΥ ΖΩΗ
Στις 19 Φεβρουαρίου 2015 ο διάσημος νευρολόγος και συγγραφέας Όλιβερ Σακς, στα ογδονταένα του χρόνια, ανακοινώνει την απρόσμενη διάγνωση των γιατρών για τον επικείμενο θάνατό του. Δημοσιεύει ένα κείμενο με τίτλο «Η δική μου ζωή», όπου δανείζεται τον τίτλο από αντίστοιχο κείμενο του Ντέηβιντ Χιούμ του 1776, στο οποίο ο μεγάλος φιλόσοφος ανακοίνωνε κι αυτός μια αντίστοιχη διάγνωση των γιατρών στα εξηνταπέντε του χρόνια. Ο Χιούμ, γράφοντας ένα αυτοβιογραφικό κομμάτι, συνέταξε ταυτόχρονα ένα μανιφέστο για τη φιλοσοφία του. Και οι δύο πραγματεύ...
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(P/B) ON THE MOVE
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 g...
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Ο ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΜΠΕΡΔΕΨΕ ΤΗ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΕ ΕΝΑ ΚΑΠΕΛΟ
Στο εκπληκτικό του βιβλίο ο Όλιβερ Σακς «ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους κλινικούς συγγραφείς του 20ού αιώνα» («The New York Times»), διηγείται τις ιστορίες ασθενών χαμένων μέσα στον παράξενο λαβύρινθο των νευρολογικών διαταραχών.«Ο άνθρωπος που μπέρδεψε τη γυναίκα του με ένα καπέλο» είναι οι ιστορίες ανθρώπων που πάσχουν από περίεργες εκτροπές της αντίληψης και της νόησης: ασθενείς χωρίς μνήμη και με χαμένο παρελθόν, ασθενείς που δεν αναγνωρίζουν τους γνωστούς τους ανθρώπους και τα πιο κοινά αντικείμενα, που τα μέλη τους τους έχουν γίνει ξένα,...
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(P/B) MIGRAINE