By Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

To these seven paradoxical tales of neurological disorder and creativity, Oliver Sacks transports us into the uncanny worlds of his subjects, including an artist who loses his ability to see (or even imagine) color; a surgeon who performs delicate operations in spite of the compulsive tics and outbursts of Tourette's syndrome; an an autistic professor who holds a PhD in animal science but is so bewildered by the complexity of human emotion that she feels "like an anthropologist on Mars." Through these extraordinary people, Sacks explores what it is to feel, to sense, to remember - to be, ultimately, a coherent self in the world. This book has bound glossy color and black and white illustrations.