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Download or read book On Seeing written by F. Gonzalez-Crussi and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What Oliver Sacks does for the mind, Gonzalez-Crussi (On Being Born and Other Difficulties) does for the eye in this captivating set of philosophical meditations on the relationship between the viewer and the viewed. The author, amused and amazed by our desire to see what is forbidden, draws on historical and cultural examples, from Actaeon spying on the goddess Diana to a pair of voyeurs in revolutionary France who unwittingly incite a massacre. Mixed in with such accounts are personal reflections drawn from medicine. He is astounded, for example, at how many people have pestered him for access to an autopsy, just to say they'd seen one. The ornate sentences are filled with stunning images, like his description of an infant just emerged from the womb, bloody, "weakly flailing his arms" and crying, appearing to the author not as a symbol of life but as resembling "a foot-soldier in a defeated army, a pitiful survivor in a catastrophic retreat," and his prose never loses its elegance, even when the stories he tells veer into the bawdy. Not every anecdote resonates perfectly, but here is a charming raconteur who will who will win over readers with his thoughts on our visual connection to the world around us." c2.
Book Synopsis Seeing What Others Don't by : Gary Klein
Download or read book Seeing What Others Don't written by Gary Klein and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned cognitive psychologist reveals the science behind achieving breakthrough discoveries, allowing readers to confidently solve problems, improve decision-making, and achieve success. Insights-like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA-can change the world. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed-or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don't, Gary Klein unravels the mystery. Klein is a keen observer of people in their natural settings-scientists, businesspeople, firefighters, police officers, soldiers, family members, friends, himself-and uses a marvelous variety of stories to illuminate his research into what insights are and how they happen. What, for example, enabled Harry Markopolos to put the finger on Bernie Madoff? How did Dr. Michael Gottlieb make the connections between different patients that allowed him to publish the first announcement of the AIDS epidemic? How did Martin Chalfie come up with a million-dollar idea (and a Nobel Prize) for a natural flashlight that enabled researchers to look inside living organisms to watch biological processes in action? Klein also dissects impediments to insight, such as when organizations claim to value employee creativity and to encourage breakthroughs but in reality block disruptive ideas and prioritize avoidance of mistakes. Or when information technology systems are "dumb by design" and block potential discoveries. Both scientifically sophisticated and fun to read, Seeing What Others Don't shows that insight is not just a "eureka!" moment but a whole new way of understanding.
Book Synopsis Seeing Being Seen by : Michelle Dunn Marsh
Download or read book Seeing Being Seen written by Michelle Dunn Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of Michelle Dunn Marsh's life and work as a book designer, cultural producer, and publisher unfolds through photographs drawn from the author's collection (featuring many prints gifted to her from projects, or obtained through trade), and notes on her formative encounters with some of American photography's master practitioners over the last twenty-five years.Portraits of her by Stephen Shore, Larry Fink, Sylvia Plachy, Will Wilson, and others punctuate a loosely chronological narrative exploring the author's evolution of seeing, the influences of family, education, geographies, mentors, and photography itself on that process, and her commitment to the printed book as a vessel of future histories.
Book Synopsis On Seeing Forms by : William R. Uttal
Download or read book On Seeing Forms written by William R. Uttal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, this is the final volume in the set. The original intent of the tetralogy was to review neural explanations of high level perceptual and cognitive processes. However, at this point, it became clear that there were few neural explanations of perceptual topics – a situation that still persists today. This book, therefore, used a different framework examining the role of detection, discrimination, and recognition at the behavioral level.
Book Synopsis Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On Seeing the Stars) by : Dan Burton
Download or read book Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On Seeing the Stars) written by Dan Burton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Book Synopsis On Seeing a Picture of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by : Henry Jones
Download or read book On Seeing a Picture of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales written by Henry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Show Must Go on ; Seeing Someone ; If Walls Could Talk by : Laurence Klavan
Download or read book The Show Must Go on ; Seeing Someone ; If Walls Could Talk written by Laurence Klavan and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: The first play, THE SHOW MUST GO ON, cleverly mixes up sitcoms and real life by presenting us with an ostensibly authentic suburban family in which all the members read their lines from a stilted and hilariously dismal script. Trouble
Book Synopsis On seeing Him who is Invisible. A sermon, occasioned by the death of the Rev. John Foster, late of Stapleton, near Bristol, etc by : Thomas Steffe CRISP
Download or read book On seeing Him who is Invisible. A sermon, occasioned by the death of the Rev. John Foster, late of Stapleton, near Bristol, etc written by Thomas Steffe CRISP and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing by : Frederick Franck
Download or read book Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing written by Frederick Franck and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franck, the author of Zen of Seeing, the classic guide, returns with more teachings and instructions.
Download or read book Shape written by George Stiny and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How design is calculating with shapes: formal details and design applications.
Book Synopsis The Art of Seeing by : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Download or read book The Art of Seeing written by Aldous Leonard Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Art of Seeing" by Aldous Leonard Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Seeing Like a State by : James C. Scott
Download or read book Seeing Like a State written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Book Synopsis Thinking and Seeing by : Daniel T. Levin
Download or read book Thinking and Seeing written by Daniel T. Levin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection in which the contributors draw on diverse areas of cognitive science to examine the difference between actual and presumed visual cognition.
Book Synopsis The Book of Seeing with One's Own Eyes by : Sharon Doubiago
Download or read book The Book of Seeing with One's Own Eyes written by Sharon Doubiago and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine stories focus on the psychological distance between men and women in modern American society.
Download or read book Seeing Christmas written by Karen Stacy and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Steps in Seeing by : Robert W. Rodieck
Download or read book The First Steps in Seeing written by Robert W. Rodieck and published by Sinauer Associates Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Steps in Seeing is about the eyes, and how they capture an image and convert it to the neural messages that ultimately result in visual experience. A full appreciation of how the eyes work is rooted in diverse areas of science-optics; biochemistry and photochemistry; molecular biology, cell biology, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology; psychology and psychophysics. The findings related to vision from any one of these fields are not difficult to understand in themselves, but, in order to be clear and precise, each discipline has developed its own set of words and conceptual relations-in effect, its own language-and for those wanting a broad introduction to vision these separate languages can present more of an impediment to understanding than an aid. However, what lies beneath these words usually has a beautiful simplicity, and it is the aim of The First Steps in Seeing to describe how we see in a manner that is understandable to all. In this book, the use of technical terms is restricted, and several hundred full-color illustrations ensure that the terms that are used are associated with a picture, icon, or graph that visually expresses their meaning. Experimental findings have been recast in terms of the natural world whenever possible, and broad themes bring together lines of thought that are often treated separately. Fourteen main chapters form a "thread" that tells the main scientific story and can be read without specialized knowedge or reliance on other sources. This thread is linked to fourteen discussions which explore certain crucial topics in greater depth. Notes link the material presented in the thread and in the special topics discussions to important review articles and seminal research papers. The First Steps in Seeing is an innovative, authoritative work that belongs in the library of anyone with an interest in visual perception.
Download or read book Seeing Red written by Kathryn Erskine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine delivers a powerful story of family, friendship, and race relations in the South.Life will never be the same for Red Porter. He's a kid growing up around black car grease, white fence paint, and the backward attitudes of the folks who live in his hometown, Rocky Gap, Virginia. Red's daddy, his idol, has just died, leaving Red and Mama with some hard decisions and a whole lot of doubt. Should they sell the Porter family business, a gas station, repair shop, and convenience store rolled into one, where the slogan -- "Porter's: We Fix it Right!" -- has been shouting the family's pride for as long as anyone can remember? With Daddy gone, everything's different. Through his friendship with Thomas, Beau, and Miss Georgia, Red starts to see there's a lot more than car motors and rusty fenders that need fixing in his world. When Red discovers the injustices that have been happening in Rocky Gap since before he was born, he's faced with unsettling questions about his family's legacy.
