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]

400-ЛЕТИЕ ДИНАСТИИ РОМАНОВЫХ. Мнемоническая политика и идея монархии, 1613-2013. Авторы этого тома описывают различные технологии формирования романовского мифа, механизмы конструирования образов царственных особ на этнических окраинах империи, репрезентацию императоров 18-19 вв. в советской историографии и популярной исторической литературе, а также трактовку юбилея в интернет-дискурсе...