In The Mind’s Eye, 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 power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability ...
Writing in India in the 4th century AD, the Hindu sage Vatsyayana composed the Kama Sutra or Rules of Love. This masterwork of sexual etiquette has since become both notorious and admired. With a brief outline of his life and achievements, this selection of short extracts presents his wisdom in an easily digestible form.