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From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Oliver Sacks's broad range of interests - from his...

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients....

Insight into the Mysteries of Consciousness Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks recounts the most extraordinary stories of patients lost in the bizar...

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...

'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph 'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark Cousins Outside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and hi...

Review An utterly wonderful book - without question one of the most important books about the brain you will ever read; yet it is beautifully writ...

Review Absorbing and scholarly... A twin biography of psychiatry and neurology, their study charts this uneasy relationship from marriage to d...

"Stylish, witty and insightful" -The Wall Street Journal "Makes us look at ourselves and the human mind in a series of fascinating ways" - New Sci...

* * * Winner of the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * * Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring explorati...

Review Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms in The Hidden Spring ... fascinating, wide-ran...

Review An engrossing detective story of driven personalities, hidden clues, perseverance and intuition [Fox] has uncovered a remarkable woman ...