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´Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent´ Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind´s Ey e, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world - and The Mind´s Eye is testament to the myriad ways that we, as humans, are capable of rising to this challenge. ´ The Mind´s Eye is about the possibility of recovery and the inexorable decline of the ageing individual. From this collision of incompatible truths, tragedy is made . . . making this Sacks´s most powerful book to date´ Sunday Telegraph ´Packed with wisdom, humour, extraordinary human stories and reflections on how we all perceive the world . . . He ends with a brilliant discussion of blindness and the ways in which blind people develop visual concepts.