In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.

In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels part of his body. Sacks's brilliant description of his crisis and eventual recovery...

Nevyrazimoe slovami [Inexpressible by Words. Translating Texts About Art, Music, and Dance from English Into Russian]

400th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY. Mnemonic Policies and Idea of Monarchy, 1613-2013. The contributors to this volume describe various technologies of shaping the Romanov myth, the mechanisms of constructing the images of royal personae on the ethnic outskirts of the Empire, the representation of the Emperors of 18-19cents. in the Soviet historiography and popular history books, as...