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A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. With an introduction by Will Sel...

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 arou...

Neurologist Oliver Sacks investigates the complex relationship between the brain and the mind and, almost impossibly, manages to make his subject m...

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achieve...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee . . .The bestselling a...

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a ...

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achieve...

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boys adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sac...

Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a...

How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Minds Eye, Oliver Sacks ...

'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard Imagi...

As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate ...

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' Sunda...

Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling autho...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIf 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...

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 ab...

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 wi...

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - Observer When Oliver Sacks...

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days d...

Oliver Sacks, the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is most famous for his studies of the human mind: in...