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Author : Christopher Pike
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812538823
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Blind Mirror written by Christopher Pike and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy is acused of his ex-girlfriends murder who he believes isn't dead as she keeps calling him.
Author : Barry Denenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439194464
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Mirror, Mirror on the Wall written by Barry Denenberg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Author : Max H. Bazerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156220
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Blind Spots written by Max H. Bazerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto, the downfall of Bernard Madoff, and the Challenger space shuttle disaster, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be. Explaining why traditional approaches to ethics don't work, the book considers how blind spots like ethical fading--the removal of ethics from the decision--making process--have led to tragedies and scandals such as the Challenger space shuttle disaster, steroid use in Major League Baseball, the crash in the financial markets, and the energy crisis. The authors demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior. They argue that scandals will continue to emerge unless such approaches take into account the psychology of individuals faced with ethical dilemmas. Distinguishing our "should self" (the person who knows what is correct) from our "want self" (the person who ends up making decisions), the authors point out ethical sinkholes that create questionable actions. Suggesting innovative individual and group tactics for improving human judgment, Blind Spots shows us how to secure a place for ethics in our workplaces, institutions, and daily lives.
Author : Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368921
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)
Download or read book The Blind Spot written by Jacqueline Lichtenstein and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that turned on the priority of painting or sculpture, touch or sight, color or design, ancients or moderns. Jacqueline Lichtenstein guides readers through these historic quarrels, decoding the key terms of the heated discussions and revealing how the players were influenced by the concurrent explosion of scientific discoveries concerning the senses of sight and touch. Drawing on the work of René Descartes, Roger de Piles, Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, and Émile Zola, among others, The Blind Spot lets readers eavesdrop on an energetic and contentious conversation that preoccupied French intellectuals for three hundred years.
Author : Ellyn Kaschak
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539533
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Ellyn Kaschak and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see.
Author : Aravinda Bhat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000892530
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities written by Aravinda Bhat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected prose writings by three blind authors: Argentine poet, short story writer, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges; Australian religious educator and diarist John M. Hull; and the American memoirist and poet Stephen Kuusisto. The volume discusses themes like theorising the corporeality of writing aesthetic turn to the experience of blindness altered sensation and self-understanding lived experience of growing blind self-knowledge through interaction with the world artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the ‘implied’ author This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
Author : Madeleine L. Van Hecke
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615920013
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Blind Spots written by Madeleine L. Van Hecke and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist Van Hecke argues that much of what we label stupidity can better be explained as blind spots. Full of funny, poignant stories about human foibles, "Blind Spots" offers many insights for improving our social and political lives.
Author : Robert Kurson
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812973682
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Crashing Through written by Robert Kurson and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’s faces. But the procedure was filled with gambles, some of them deadly, others beyond May’s wildest dreams. Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man’s choice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live. Praise for the National Bestseller Crashing Through: “An incredible human story [told] in gripping fashion . . . a great read.” –Chicago Sun-Times “Inspiring.” –USA Today “[An] astonishing story . . . memorably told . . . May is remarkable. . . . Don’t be surprised if your own vision mists over now and then.” –Chicago Tribune “[A] moving account [of] an extraordinary character.” –People “Terrific . . . [a] genuinely fascinating account of the nature of human vision.” –The Washington Post “Kurson is a man with natural curiosity and one who can feel the excitement life has to offer. One of his great gifts is he makes you feel it, too.” –The Kansas City Star “Propulsive . . . a gripping adventure story.” –Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429955198
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher : LP
ISBN 13 : 3989887327
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (898 download)
Download or read book A Letter about the Blind for Those Who See written by Denis Diderot and published by LP. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Denis Diderot's 1751 "A Letter about the Blind for Those Who See" (Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient) from the original French manuscript into American English. This edition contains an afterword by the translator on Diderot's philosophic legacy, a timeline of his works and life, and a glossary of philosophic terminology utilized in his works. This letter is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of perception and the limitations of human understanding- a key topic of the Enlightenment. Diderot addresses the concept of blindness, both literal and metaphorical, and argues that knowledge is not solely derived from visual perception. He explores the idea that individuals who are visually impaired might possess alternative ways of perceiving the world, challenging the prevailing belief that sight is the sole path to knowledge. This work is closely related to Diderot's overall body of work as it reflects his interest in epistemology and his quest for a broader understanding of human experience. Diderot's ideas on perception and sensory experience had a significant impact on later philosophers, such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his phenomenological approach to perception.
Author : Collin Hansen
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433546264
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Blind Spots written by Collin Hansen and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians talk a lot about church unity. Unfortunately, however, God’s people are often better known for their divisions and disagreements than for a common commitment to the gospel. At the root of this disunity are the blind spots that prevent us from seeing other points of view and reevaluating our own perspectives. In this provocative book, Collin Hansen challenges Christians from various “camps” to view their differences as opportunities to more effectively engage a needy world with the love of Christ. Highlighting the diversity of thought, experience, and personality that God has given to his people, this book lays the foundation for a new generation of Christians eager to cultivate a courageous, compassionate, and commissioned church.
Author : Tony Deifell
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811853491
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Seeing Beyond Sight written by Tony Deifell and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seeing Beyond Sight illuminates the surprising power and creative potential of photography in an astonishing collection of images created by visually impaired teens"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : School District of Philadelphia 1984
Publisher : Stoelting
ISBN 13 : 099829800X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Curriculum Guide for Deaf-Blind and Severely Multi-Handicapped Students written by School District of Philadelphia 1984 and published by Stoelting. This book was released on 1985 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides informal assessment, extensive developmental activities and supplemental resources in four areas.Designed for children whose handicapping conditions are so multiple and severe they cannot usually benefit from existing approaches that assume the presence of one or more alternate learning channels.Curriculum Guide for Deaf-Blind and Severely Multi- Handicapped Students meets the need of those individuals with multiple sensory, mental, orthopedic, neurological and behavior handicapping conditions.The four components of the complete program cover:Communication Skills -- 23 levels of Communication Development (from the Unresponsive Child through the Beginning of Pivot-Open Syntax)Techniques of Daily Living -- Personal Hygiene, Eating and DrinkingOrientation and Mobility -- Perceptual Development, Gross and Fine Motor Development, Body Image Development, Cognitive Development, Interaction with Adults, Peers and Environment Assessment and Travel SkillsSensory Stimulation -- Tactile Stimulation, Gustatory Stimulation, Olfactory Stimulation, Verbal Stimulation and Auditory Stimulation
Author : Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Medical Examination of Schools and Scholars written by Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schulhygiene.
Author : Edward Wheatley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472117203
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind written by Edward Wheatley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today." ---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University "A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book." ---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness. A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature. This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy. Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago.
Author : Rune Elvik
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848552505
Total Pages : 1137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Road Safety Measures written by Rune Elvik and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains summaries of the knowledge regarding the effects of 128 road safety measures. This title covers various areas of road safety including: traffic control; vehicle inspection; driver training; publicity campaigns; police enforcement; and, general policy instruments. It also covers topics such as post-accident care, and speed cameras.
Author : William Artman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beauties and Achievements of the Blind written by William Artman and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes some of the great accomplishments of individuals who were blind.
