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Author : Louis Nizer
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reflections Without Mirrors an Autobiography of the Mind written by Louis Nizer and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Lar Rieu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966037333
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Reflections Without a Mirror written by Barry Lar Rieu and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography
Author : Katja Guenther
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123776X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Mirror and the Mind written by Katja Guenther and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects—humans, infants, animals, and robots—in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test, exploring how researchers from a range of disciplines—psychoanalysis, psychiatry, developmental and animal psychology, cybernetics, anthropology, and neuroscience—came to read the peculiar behaviors elicited by mirrors. Investigating the ways mirrors could lead to both identification and misidentification, Guenther looks at how such experiments ultimately failed to determine human specificity. The mirror test was thrust into the limelight when Charles Darwin challenged the idea that language sets humans apart. Thereafter the mirror, previously a recurrent if marginal scientific tool, became dominant in attempts to demarcate humans from other animals. But because researchers could not rely on language to determine what their nonspeaking subjects were experiencing, they had to come up with significant innovations, including notation strategies, testing protocols, and the linking of scientific theories across disciplines. From the robotic tortoises of Grey Walter and the mark test of Beulah Amsterdam and Gordon Gallup, to anorexia research and mirror neurons, the mirror test offers a window into the emergence of such fields as biology, psychology, psychiatry, animal studies, cognitive science, and neuroscience. The Mirror and the Mind offers an intriguing history of experiments in self-awareness and the advancements of the human sciences across more than a century.
Author : Louis Nizer
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425046371
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Reflections Without Mirrors written by Louis Nizer and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1979-03-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dee Hock
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475966555
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of a Restless Mind written by Dee Hock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 Autobiography of a Restless Mind is a fascinating, exceptionally diverse collection of observations and reflections written over the past twenty-five years by one of the most innovative thinkers, writers, and leaders of the past half century. Witty and wise, playful and profound, prophetic and immensely quotable, it is a companion no thinking, caring person should be without. Written in an unforgettable style reminiscent of Aurelius, Montaigne, Lao-Tse, and Bacon, it is a classic that will be read with pleasure and profit for generations to come.
Author : Albert Weintraub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735004549
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Reflections from the Mirrors of My Mind written by Albert Weintraub and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIOGRAPHY
Author : David Armand
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781946160966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Mirrors written by David Armand and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mirrors is a collection of interconnected essays that recount the author's being adopted as a young child and then spending his boyhood growing up in rural Louisiana. He writes candidly about his troubled teenage years, experimenting with drugs and alcohol, then dropping out of school and working odd jobs. While most of the collection deals with the author's youth, the collection ultimately builds to the final piece, which describes his unexpected discovery of his biological father after taking a DNA test"--
Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786729902
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Mirror, Mirror written by Mark Pendergrast and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel. Mirror Mirror is the fascinating story of the mirror's invention, refinement, and use in an astonishing range of human activities -- from the fantastic mirrored rooms that wealthy Romans created for their orgies to the mirror's key role in the use and understanding of light. Pendergrast spins tales of the 2,500year mystery of whether Archimedes and his "burning mirror" really set faraway Roman ships on fire; the medieval Venetian glassmakers, who perfected the technique of making large, flat mirrors from clear glass and for whom any attempt to leave their cloistered island was punishable by death; Isaac Newton, whose experiments with sunlight on mirrors once left him blinded for three days; the artist David Hockney, who holds controversial ideas about Renaissance artists and their use of optical devices; and George Ellery Hale, the manic-depressive astronomer and telescope enthusiast who inspired (and gave his name to) the twentieth century's largest ground-based telescope. Like mirrors themselves, Mirror Mirror is a book of endless wonder and fascination.
Author : Giacomo Rizzolatti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019921798X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Mirrors in the Brain written by Giacomo Rizzolatti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we witness a great actor, musician, or sportsperson performing, we share something of their experience. It become clear just how this sharing of experience is realised within the human brain. This text provides an accessible overview of mirror neurons, written by the man who first discovered them.
Author : Jia Tolentino
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510559
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Trick Mirror written by Jia Tolentino and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifteen years ago, when I was only seventy-five years old, I wrote my autobiography prematurely. . . ". So begins the second autobiography of Mortimer Adler, the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among other things, he discusses the enormously controversial second edition of Great Books of the Western World and his involvement with the Aspen Institute.
Author : Sarudzai Mubvakure
Publisher : Sarudzai Mubvakure
ISBN 13 : 1527262731
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Mirror Without Reflection written by Sarudzai Mubvakure and published by Sarudzai Mubvakure . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia Blackwell is a passionate horticulturist who loves a plant until it flourishes. This love has spread from the thyme on her window sill to her mother’s secret patch of cannabis at the bottom of the garden. So much love but unfortunately her world has not treated her in quite the same way. People have conspired to crush her spirit until when she looks in the mirror she sees no one there. Uche, the Nigerian hustler says that he never married Sofia for British papers and yet it’s a wonder as to why he tried to break her. But he is just one of the many players in the game of spinning Sofia in a spider’s web of lies. But then there’s Michael. He bumps into her twice but she doesn’t see him. He falls for her but he doesn’t know where to find her. Then to his astonishment the next client that shows up in his therapy practice is her. She’s looking for help. As he listens to her painful past he struggles to not cross the threshold to loving her and as the truth in her life unfolds will their struggles rob them of stepping into a love where their lives will bloom.
Author : Mark Angelo Cummings
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 9781425924041
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Mirror Makes No Sense written by Mark Angelo Cummings and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of emigrants to the Anglo-American world, particularly from former British colonies, contains overt and subtle references to the differences in lifestyle and culture they encounter upon entry into their host countries. They are faced not only with a serious re-evaluation of their own values and beliefs, but also with an immediate delegation to the marginal "other" of western society. This decentration of a previously whole, identifiable self often produces a state of incessant anxiety that seeks stability through the establishment of a new identity that conforms to perceived expectations of the dominant society as a condition of acceptance. This search for a new identity gives birth to controlling strategies that direct the transformation of identity and behavior. Each of the three authors discussed in this book has taken a different approach to dealing with issues of marginality and otherness in a culture of Eurocentric dominance. While Salman Rushdie's works reflect alienation from, and denigration of, traditions and beliefs of the culture of his origin, Bharati Mukherjee's approach to adaptation in the Western culture is marked by an affinity towards hybridization and change while both preserving, to some degree, traditions and beliefs from her culture of origin and demanding as well change in the host culture. Kamala Markandaya differs from both Rushdie and Mukherjee in professing an affirmation of spirituality and mythical beliefs while nevertheless adapting to the West. The respective strategies of the three authors are broadly characterized as mimicry, hybridization, and devotion.
Author : Justice Kimmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517405700
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A Thousand Mirrors Yet One Reflection written by Justice Kimmons and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the womb, to suffering, and into glory, Justice lives to tell narrate a story that saves the down-trodden, the underestimated, and the unheard.In a rare dissection of individual mind and motive, this young man unleashes a compelling narrative of its time. Born, raised, beaten, and nearly killed, on Chicago's South Side, Justice details a journey of instability, institutionalization, disease, infection, and remarkable growth.
Author : Jia Tolentino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525510540
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Trick Mirror written by Jia Tolentino and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith - "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time."--Vulture NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - The Washington Post - Esquire - Elle - Glamour - Good Housekeeping - The Dallas Morning News - BookPage Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino's sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. Praise for Trick Mirror "Jia Tolentino is the best young essayist at work in the United States, one I've consistently admired and learned from, and I was exhilarated to get a whole lot of her at once in Trick Mirror. In these nine essays, she rethinks troubling ingredients of modern life, from the internet to mind-altering drugs to wedding culture. All through the book, single sentences flash like lightning to show something familiar in a startling way, but she also builds extended arguments with her usual, unusual blend of lyricism and skepticism. In the end, we have a picture of America that was as missing as it was needed."--Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me
Author : Evan Vias
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728356431
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Mirror, Signal, Move On written by Evan Vias and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a hard-hitting, real insight into the life of a boy growing up in a South American country in the 1980s and 1990s. Growing up without biological parents, the author takes you on an unbelievable journey of struggles, challenges and then discovery and re-emergence. It deals with harrowing subjects such as child abuse, rape and the crippling issue of loneliness and other mental health related issues but also builds up to a sense of self-worth and reflection. We’ve all been there and have bad experiences which have affected us in some way so it is easy to see that we need to take a good look at ourselves, decide on the course of action and then execute it. We can all relate to the sentiment of “Mirror, Signal, and Move on.”
Author : E. O. Chirovici
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501141546
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Book of Mirrors written by E. O. Chirovici and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous professor Joseph Wieder was brutally murdered, and the crime was never solved. Years later when literary agent Peter Katz receives an incomplete memoir written by a student of the murdered professor, he becomes obsessed with solving the crime.
