Essays and case studies exploring the many forms of neurological disease. By the author of THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT

Well illustrated, often in color. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A broad account of the complex phenomenon of colour and colour vision.

Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic ...

This detailed 1990 book describes the light and dark adaptation of receptoral and post-receptoral mechanisms from a number of perspectives.

From the bestselling author of "Thursday Next" comes a brilliant new novel--part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller--about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors one can see.