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Book Synopsis The Illusion of Linearity by : Dirk de Bock
Download or read book The Illusion of Linearity written by Dirk de Bock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the reader with a comprehensive overview of the major findings of the recent research on the illusion of linearity. It discusses: how the illusion of linearity appears in diverse domains of mathematics and science; what are the crucial psychological, mathematical, and educational factors being responsible for the occurrence and persistence of the phenomenon; and how the illusion of linearity can be remedied.
Book Synopsis The Art of Illusion by : Florian Heine
Download or read book The Art of Illusion written by Florian Heine and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how artists have been tricking the human eye for centuries in this gorgeous and wide-ranging exploration of the art of illusion. This spellbinding look at the history and development of illusionistic art reveals wide-ranging techniques that have piqued the public's fascination with this medium. Beautifully reproduced, the images featured in the book includes centuries-old work such as the scenery at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, and the ceiling frescos at the Würzburg Residence in Germany, that showcase processes such as trompe l'oeil and anamorphosis. It also features work from the 20th and 21st centuries, including René Magritte's classic Surrealist works; M.C. Escher's magical and mathematically precise drawings; the seemingly undulating paintings of Bridget Riley; the manipulated photography of Andreas Gursky; Duane Hanson's eerily lifelike sculptures; JR's larger-than-life portrait photographs; and Georges Rousse's mind-bending constructions. The book also has examples of amazing street art including subway graffiti and a sidewalk painting that makes pedestrians think twice. This extraordinary and informative guide to all kinds of artistic trickery will satisfy scholars as well as everyday fans.
Download or read book Illusion written by Ravi Sinha and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every society has its illusion. Some are clear, others are fogged or smeared by social, historical or religious customs. We are invariably carried out by its enchantmentonly to bring affliction & anguish later.
Book Synopsis The Illusion of Arizona by : Christina Lean
Download or read book The Illusion of Arizona written by Christina Lean and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of each of the seven areas highlighted - discover the past of each of these fascinating locations.Where to go if you want to enjoy a snow-filled adventure - hint: it's where you'll find the highest point in the entire state!?The town that is home to a jail that accidentally slid down a hill - view this iconic landmark in all of its infamous glory.All of the reasons you should visit this second-highest concrete-arch dam - including why kids will love their visit to this impressive dam?The best place to visit if your family loves waterparks - this 7-acre masterpiece has been ranked amongst the top ten waterparks in all of the U.S.!?Which town is said to have seven energy vortexes - feel rejuvenated by connecting to the earth's energy?The best place to watch a real-life wild west gunfight - be transported back to the days of outlaws and cowboys!?Where you can drive right by bears and wolves and other wild animals - experience the wonders of the animal kingdom from the comfort of your car?The park that still pays homage to a classic cartoon and is now home to amazing birds of prey - witness these majestic creatures in action as you are overcome with nostalgia
Book Synopsis Unveiling Arizona's Illusion- Your Adventure Guide to 7 Unique Destinations by : Christina Lean
Download or read book Unveiling Arizona's Illusion- Your Adventure Guide to 7 Unique Destinations written by Christina Lean and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of each of the seven areas highlighted - discover the past of each of these fascinating locations.Where to go if you want to enjoy a snow-filled adventure - hint: it's where you'll find the highest point in the entire state!?The town that is home to a jail that accidentally slid down a hill - view this iconic landmark in all of its infamous glory.All of the reasons you should visit this second-highest concrete-arch dam - including why kids will love their visit to this impressive dam?The best place to visit if your family loves waterparks - this 7-acre masterpiece has been ranked amongst the top ten waterparks in all of the U.S.!?Which town is said to have seven energy vortexes - feel rejuvenated by connecting to the earth's energy?The best place to watch a real-life wild west gunfight - be transported back to the days of outlaws and cowboys!?Where you can drive right by bears and wolves and other wild animals - experience the wonders of the animal kingdom from the comfort of your car?The park that still pays homage to a classic cartoon and is now home to amazing birds of prey - witness these majestic creatures in action as you are overcome with nostalgia
Book Synopsis The Illusion of Peace by : Sally Marks
Download or read book The Illusion of Peace written by Sally Marks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Marks provides a compelling analysis of European diplomacy between the First World War and Hitler's advent. She explores in clear and lively prose the reasons why successive efforts failed to create a lasting peace in the interwar era. Building on the theories of the first edition - many of which have become widely accepted since its publication in 1976 - Marks reassesses Europe's leaders of the period, and the policies of the powers between 1918 and 1933, and beyond. Strongly interpretative and archivally based, The Illusion of Peace examines the emotional, ethnic, and economic factors responsible for international instability, as well as the distortion of the balance of power, the abnormal position of the Soviet Union, the weakness of France and the uncertainty of her relationship with Britain, and the inadequacy of the League of Nations. In so doing, the study clarifies the complex topics of reparations and war debts and challenges traditional assumptions, concluding that widespread western devotion to disarmament and dedication to peace were two of several reasons why democratic statesmen could not respond decisively to Hitler's threat. In this new edition Marks also argues that the Allied failure to bring defeat home to the German people in 1918-19 generated a resentment which contributed to interwar instability and Hitler's rise. This highly successful study has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship. Now in its second edition, it remains the essential introduction to the tense political and diplomatic situation in Europe during the interwar years.
Book Synopsis The Illusion of Arizona by : Christina Lean
Download or read book The Illusion of Arizona written by Christina Lean and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of each of the seven areas highlighted - discover the past of each of these fascinating locations.Where to go if you want to enjoy a snow-filled adventure - hint: it's where you'll find the highest point in the entire state!?The town that is home to a jail that accidentally slid down a hill - view this iconic landmark in all of its infamous glory.All of the reasons you should visit this second-highest concrete-arch dam - including why kids will love their visit to this impressive dam?The best place to visit if your family loves waterparks - this 7-acre masterpiece has been ranked amongst the top ten waterparks in all of the U.S.!?Which town is said to have seven energy vortexes - feel rejuvenated by connecting to the earth's energy?The best place to watch a real-life wild west gunfight - be transported back to the days of outlaws and cowboys!?Where you can drive right by bears and wolves and other wild animals - experience the wonders of the animal kingdom from the comfort of your car?The park that still pays homage to a classic cartoon and is now home to amazing birds of prey - witness these majestic creatures in action as you are overcome with nostalgia. No pictures or maps.
Book Synopsis The Illusion of Reality by : Howard L. Resnikoff
Download or read book The Illusion of Reality written by Howard L. Resnikoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illusion of Reality was conceived during my tenure as director of the newly established Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation in 1979-1981 as a partial response to the need for a textbook for students, both in and out of government, that would pro vide a comprehensive view of information science as a fundamental constitu ent of other more established disciplines with a unity and coherence distinct from computer science, cognitive science, and library science although it is related to all of them. Driven by the advances of information technology, the perception of information science has progressed rapidly: today it seems well understood that information processing biological organisms and informa tion processing electronic machines have something basic in common that may subsume the theory of computation, as well as fundamental parts of physics. This book is primarily intended as a text for an advanced undergraduate or a graduate introduction to information science. The multidisciplinary nature of the subject has naturally led to the inclusion of a considerable amount of background material in various fields. The reader is likely to fmd the treat ment relatively oversimplified in fields with which he is familiar and, perhaps, somewhat heavier sailing in less familiar waters. The theme of common principles among seemingly unrelated applications provides the connective tissue for the diverse topics covered in the text and, I hope, justifies the variable level of presentation. Some of the material appears here for the first time.
Author :Susana Martinez-Conde Publisher :Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 13 :0374120404 Total Pages :178 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (741 download)
Book Synopsis Champions of Illusion by : Susana Martinez-Conde
Download or read book Champions of Illusion written by Susana Martinez-Conde and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of visual illusions with explanations of the science behind them, gathered from the Best Illusions of the Year contest. --
Book Synopsis Reading- The Grand Illusion by : Kenneth Goodman
Download or read book Reading- The Grand Illusion written by Kenneth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is reading? In this groundbreaking book, esteemed researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, and Steven Strauss, explain not only what reading really is but also why common sense makes it seem to be something quite different from that reality. How can this grand illusion be explained? That is the purpose of this book. As the authors show, unraveling the secrets of the grand illusion of reading teaches about far more than reading itself, but also about how remarkable human language is, how the brain uses language to navigate the world, what it means to be human. Each author brings a different perspective, but all share a common view of the reading process. Together they provide a clear and surprising exposition of the reading process, in which they involve readers of this book in exploring the ways they themselves read and make sense of written language while their eyes fixate on fewer than 70 percent of the words in the text. In addition, the authors engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion about how readers use the brain, eyes, and language in reading. The different perspectives provide depth to the authors’ description of reading. The information presented in this book will be new to many teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and the public alike. The final chapter draws on the understandings from the book to challenge the treatment of reading and writing as school subjects and offers the basis for supporting literacy development as a natural extension of oral language development.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions by : Arthur Gilman Shapiro
Download or read book The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions written by Arthur Gilman Shapiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --
Book Synopsis The Illusion of Transparency in Corporate Governance by : Finn Janning
Download or read book The Illusion of Transparency in Corporate Governance written by Finn Janning and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality. From a philosophical perspective, society has experienced a gradual paradigm shift which intensified after the Second World War with the advent of the information era. As a fundamental part of an inescapable, hegemonic capitalist system and given the insistent emphasis on it as a moral imperative, transparency, this book avers, needs to be examined and challenged as to its true governance value in building a sustainable twenty-first century society. Rather than clinging to the fantasy of complete transparency as the only form of accountability, corporate governance is strengthened in this way by practicing true social responsibility, which emerges not from outward-looking compliance but from a deeper place in the corporate psyche through inward-looking contemplation and the development of moral maturity.
Book Synopsis Are You an Illusion? by : Mary Midgley
Download or read book Are You an Illusion? written by Mary Midgley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there’s much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today’s science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich variety of our imaginative life cannot be contained in the narrow bounds of a highly puritanical materialism that simply equates brain and self. Engaging with the work of prominent thinkers, Midgley investigates the source of our current attitudes to the self and reveals how ideas, traditions and myths have been twisted to fit in, seemingly naturally, with science’s current preoccupation with the physical and material. Midgley shows that the subjective sources of thought – our own experiences – are every bit as necessary in helping to explain the world as the objective ones such as brain cells. Are You an Illusion? offers a salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.
Book Synopsis Empire of Illusion by : Chris Hedges
Download or read book Empire of Illusion written by Chris Hedges and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
Download or read book Arizona written by Thomas E. Sheridan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas E. Sheridan has spent a lifetime in Arizona, "living off it and seeking refuge from it." He knows firsthand its canyons, forests, and deserts; he has seen its cities exploding with new growth; and, like many other people, he sometimes fears for its future. In this book, Sheridan sets forth new ideas about what a history should be. Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona from the pursuit of the Naco mammoth 11,000 years ago to the financial adventurism of Charles Keating and others today. It also examines how perceptions of Arizona have changed, creating new constituencies of tourists, environmentalists, and outside business interests to challenge the dominance of ranchers, mining companies, and farmers who used to control the state. Sheridan emphasizes the crucial role of the federal government in Arizona's development throughout the book. As Sheridan writes about the past, his eyes are on the inevitable change and compromise of the present and future. He balances the gains and losses as global forces interact more and more with local cultural and environmental factors.
Book Synopsis Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide & Journal by : Paul Fiarkoski
Download or read book Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide & Journal written by Paul Fiarkoski and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide & Journal takes you on a quest to discover 50 must-see natural wonders in the Grand Canyon State. For each of the 50 places, there's a page that tells you the best time to go, how to get there and how to get permits or passes, if needed. On the opposite page, you check it off your bucket list and journal about your experience. Organized by region: Tourist magnets like Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, and Monument Valley are in the North Region. In North Central, you'll find tips for amazing sites near Sedona like West Fork Oak Creek, Devil's Bridge, and the vortexes. Other regions include the Superstition Mountains, Lower Salt River, Lake Havasu, Ringbolt (Arizona) Hot Springs, Saguaro National Park, Sabino Canyon, and more.
Download or read book The Real Horse written by Farid Matuk and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded by a rigorously innovative attention to form, The Real Horse offers a testament to and reminder of a daughter's disobedience to cultural patrimony.
