This work dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can - but never enough - into the 1440 minutes of each day. Speed is the key strategy for saving time, and James Gleick shows us how in just about every area, speed has become the experience we all have in common.

By the author of Seeing Voices , this is a narrative about the awakening of 20 patients from a zombie-like state they had suffered for over 40 years. A new drug meant the sleeping sickness disease was now treatable. Sacks offers his own observations and the patients' reactions.

This revised edition of Oliver Sack's book is considerably expanded with additional case histories, new findings and practical information on treatment. A new chapter illustrates colour paintings by migraine patients, and Sacks discusses visual hallucinations or auras.

Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.

Presents an account of an English childhood, with a childish passion for science, told from the perspective of one of the most important and humane writers on psychology.