![]() "A gripping journey into the recesses of the human mind". "This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it". Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be". "Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. ![]() In Dr Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects whose limbs have become alien and, who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness". ![]() "Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. ![]()
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