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A Perfect Blindness

Author : W. Lance Hunt
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532010133
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Blindness written by W. Lance Hunt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1988, and Chicago is a center of electro-industrial music. For best friends Jonathan and Scott, the city holds everything they need to finally succeed with a band: plenty of venues and a music-hungry audience. When a friend offers them an entire floor of an abandoned factory to live and rehearse in, the musicians see a way to break free from years of failure. To secure the opportunity, they must move immediately, leaving everything and everyone behind in Ohio, including Jonathan's lover Amy--the woman who saved him from self-destruction. With few belongings and little money, they arrive in Chicago. While creating their newest band, Jonathan attempts to come to terms with abandoning Amy while Scott battles haunting memories of a friend killed years earlier. As they struggle to keep it together, a new woman enters Jonathan's life and their band reaches new heights in the music scene. But nothingis asit appears, everyone is harboring secrets, and self-deceit is a treacherous illusion that hangs over them like a dark shadow. A Perfect Blindnesslays bare a tale of perseverance, passion, and regret as two musicians embark on the arduous journey to find success and confront truths that have always eluded them--until now.

Blindness

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054753759X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Blindness written by José Saramago and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master.”—Boston Globe A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit. "This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

A Perfect Blindness

Author : W. Lance Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532010125
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Blindness written by W. Lance Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1988, and Chicago is a center of electro-industrial music. For best friends Jonathan and Scott, the city holds everything they need to finally succeed with a band: plenty of venues and a music-hungry audience. When a friend offers them an entire floor of an abandoned factory to live and rehearse in, the musicians see a way to break free from years of failure. To secure the opportunity, they must move immediately, leaving everything and everyone behind in Ohio, including Jonathan's lover Amy--the woman who saved him from self-destruction. With few belongings and little money, they arrive in Chicago. While creating their newest band, Jonathan attempts to come to terms with abandoning Amy while Scott battles haunting memories of a friend killed years earlier. As they struggle to keep it together, a new woman enters Jonathan's life and their band reaches new heights in the music scene. But nothing is as it appears, everyone is harboring secrets, and self-deceit is a treacherous illusion that hangs over them like a dark shadow. A Perfect Blindness lays bare a tale of perseverance, passion, and regret as two musicians embark on the arduous journey to find success and confront truths that have always eluded them--until now.

Blind Ambition

Author : Ever Lee Hairston
Publisher : Brown Girls Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625179154
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Blind Ambition written by Ever Lee Hairston and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Ever Lee Hairston faced one disappointment after the other. A product of share-cropping parents and raised on one of the biggest plantations in the South, Ever allowed those disappointments to diminish her self-confidence and sully her self-esteem. Not to mention, that for years, the young Ever hid a terrible secret, which she hadn’t told anyone – not her family, her friends, her teachers, and as she got older, even her employers. Ever Lee didn’t want to accept that she was slowly losing her eyesight. As darkness began to envelop her, and inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ever eventually decided to stop feeling sorry for herself and face her fears. Through two turbulent marriages, a host of setbacks, and a life that was getting harder and harder to manage, Ever encountered defeats, but was determined not to be defeated. Now, decades after she lost her eyesight, her powerful story is one of inspiration and ambition....and helping others realize their lives have purpose as they reach their full potential in spite of any obstacles in their paths.

Willful Blindness

Author : Margaret Heffernan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777953
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Willful Blindness written by Margaret Heffernan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With deft prose and page after page of keen insights, Heffernan shows why we close our eyes to facts that threaten our families, our livelihood, and our self-image--and, even better, she points the way out of the darkness.” --Daniel H. Pink In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes. Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures-even crimes against humanity. We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige. But greater understanding leads to solutions, and Heffernan shows how-by challenging our biases, encouraging debate, discouraging conformity, and not backing away from difficult or complicated problems-we can be more mindful of what's going on around us and be proactive instead of reactive.

Blindness and Insight

Author : Paul de Man
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135854963
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Blindness and Insight written by Paul de Man and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blindness and Insight , de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism. Not only are the critics unaware of this gap, says de Man, but their blindness to it often leads to some of their most valuable insights. The central issue of de Man's work is the rhetorical constitution of the text, and this book, with its new introduction by Wlad Godzich and five additional essays by de Man, is meant to challenge readers to a new appreciation of their chosen task as readers of literature. Included in this new edition are the original essays on Binswanger, Poulet, Lukas, Blanchot, the New Critics, and Derrida's `of Grammatology', as well as five more: `The Rhetoric of Temporality', `The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism', `Heidegger's Exegesis of Holderlin', a review of Bloom's `Anxiety of Influence, and `Literature and Language'.

Some Kids Are Blind

Author : Lola M. Schaefer
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736887922
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Some Kids Are Blind written by Lola M. Schaefer and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and photographs describe children who are blind, their challenges and adaptations, and their similarities with others.

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191176X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors written by Susan Sontag and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - just a disease. Cancer is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

Touching the Rock

Author : John Hull
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067973547X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Touching the Rock written by John Hull and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-06-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Oliver Sacks Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness—a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads it.

Touch the Top of the World

Author : Erik Weihenmayer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452282940
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Touch the Top of the World written by Erik Weihenmayer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done). From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous. "An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine."—Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air

The Unseen Minority

Author : Frances A. Koestler
Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
ISBN 13 : 9780891288961
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Minority written by Frances A. Koestler and published by American Foundation for the Blind. This book was released on 2004 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the societal forces affecting blind people in the United States and the professions that evolved to provide services to people who are visually impaired, The Unseen Minority was originally commissioned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the American Foundation for the Blind in 1971. Updated with a new foreword outlining the critical issues that have arisen since the original publication and with time lines presenting the landmark events in the legislative arena, low vision, education, and orientation and mobility, this classic work has never been more relevant.

Blindness

Author : Henry Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Blindness written by Henry Green and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Country of the Blind

Author : Edward Hoagland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628727225
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book In the Country of the Blind written by Edward Hoagland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne’er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight. Hoagland, himself, is going blind, and through this evocative, unsentimental novel, we experience the world closing in around Press, the rising panic of uncertainty, the isolation of exile, the increasing dependence upon the kindness of strangers, and a whole new appreciation of the world just beyond sight. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir

Author : James Tate Hill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393867188
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir written by James Tate Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021 A writer’s humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C’s in his classes, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see. In this unfailingly candid yet humorous memoir, Hill discloses the tricks he employed to pass for sighted, from displaying shelves of paperbacks he read on tape to arriving early on first dates so women would have to find him. He risked his life every time he crossed a street, doing his best to listen for approaching cars. A good memory and pop culture obsessions like Tom Cruise, Prince, and all things 1980s allowed him to steer conversations toward common experiences. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, his blurry peripheral vision would bring the world into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way.

The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

Author : Zoe Thorogood
Publisher : Avery Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781910395646
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott written by Zoe Thorogood and published by Avery Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind. Zoe Thorogood's first graphic novel is a story about what it's like to get something you want, have it immediately taken away from you and then how you put it all back together again. Set in a world of people down on their luck from Middlesbrough to London, it's a graphic novel that speaks of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind. It's also the debut work of an exciting author who many are tipping to be a great new talent in the world of comics!

Color Blindness Ishihara Vision Testing Charts Optometry Color Deficiency Test Book With Numbers

Author : Science Monkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781703797329
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Color Blindness Ishihara Vision Testing Charts Optometry Color Deficiency Test Book With Numbers written by Science Monkey and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Color Blindness book with Ishihara style plates for color perception vision testing perfect for Optometrists and eye doctors who want to test color vision deficiency in their patients. Also perfect for science teachers showing children examples of color blindness books.

Caring for a Blind Cat

Author : Natasha Mitchell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955691311
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Caring for a Blind Cat written by Natasha Mitchell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Caring for a cat' series is a selection of titles which each focus on a common feline condition. Over 3000 copies sold worldwide. Caring for a blind cat has been written as an ideal information source and support tool for cat owners whose cats are visually impaired or blind. It is also helpful to owners of cats with eye problems that may lead to vision problems blindness and would be perfect for a person thinking of re-homing a blind or disabled cat. The book is also designed to be a resource for student vets, veterinary nurses and technicians. The science and emotional aspects of dealing with a diagnosis of blindness are dealt with and the causes and treatments of eye conditions are discussed. The book has practical advice on how to modify the home and garden for blind cats. Case studies are included to show how well blind cats can cope with their disability and Caring for a Blind Cat gives lots of advice to improve the quality of life of your visually impaired cat.