Mirroring People

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429990759
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Mirroring People by : Marco Iacoboni

Download or read book Mirroring People written by Marco Iacoboni and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person's head—to know what they're thinking and feeling? "Mind reading" is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But until recently, scientists didn't understand what in the brain makes it possible. This has all changed in the last decade. Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist whose work has been covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the "smart cells" in our brain that allow us to understand others. From imitation to morality, from learning to addiction, from political affiliations to consumer choices, mirror neurons seem to have properties that are relevant to all these aspects of social cognition. As The New York Times reports: "The discovery is shaking up numerous scientific disciplines, shifting the understanding of culture, empathy, philosophy, language, imitation, autism and psychotherapy." Mirroring People is the first book for the general reader on this revolutionary new science.

The Mirror

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504010183
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror by : Marlys Millhiser

Download or read book The Mirror written by Marlys Millhiser and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this twisting time-travel thriller, a woman faints on the eve of her wedding—and awakens at the turn of the century in her grandmother’s body . . . The night before she is supposed to get married, Shay Garrett has no idea that a glimpse into her grandmother’s antique Chinese mirror will completely transform her seemingly ordinary life. But after a bizarre blackout, she wakes up to find herself in the same house—but in the year 1900. Even stranger, she realizes she is now living in the body of her grandmother, Brandy McCabe, as a young woman. Meanwhile, Brandy, having looked into the same mirror, awakens in Shay’s body in the present day—and discovers herself pregnant. As Rachael—the woman who links these two generations, mother to one and daughter to another—weaves back and forth between two time periods, this imaginative thriller explores questions of family, identity, and love. Courageous, compassionate Shay finds herself fighting against the confines of a society still decades away from women’s liberation, while Brandy struggles to adapt to the modern world she has suddenly been thrust into. The truth behind this inexplicable turn of events is more complex than either woman can imagine—and The Mirror is a tribute to the triumph of the female spirit, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. “What happens will surprise you. In the meantime, settle down for a good read.” —The Denver Post

The Mirror and the Palette

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643138049
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror and the Palette by : Jennifer Higgie

Download or read book The Mirror and the Palette written by Jennifer Higgie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.

Dreams in the Mirror

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780871401557
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Dreams in the Mirror by : Richard S. Kennedy

Download or read book Dreams in the Mirror written by Richard S. Kennedy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued with a new preface for the centennial.

The Mirror in the Mirror

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Publisher : hockebooks
ISBN 13 : 395751374X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror in the Mirror by : Michael Ende

Download or read book The Mirror in the Mirror written by Michael Ende and published by hockebooks. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Mirror in the Mirror” – in the E-Book now also with illustrations by his father Edgar Ende, to whom Michael Ende dedicated this book. It is a fantastic story labyrinth of a very special kind. For the author himself, this work was of great importance: in interviews, he liked to call it his “never-ending story for adult readers.” The reader is taken into a mysterious narrative world, full of bizarre situations and mysterious fates, surreal images and philosophical thoughts. Those who open themselves in amazement to these enigmatic visions and allow themselves to be drawn into the fantastic stories will emerge from Michael Ende’s magic labyrinth with a new perspective. The core question is: What is reflected in a mirror that is reflected in a mirror? If two readers read the same book, they are still not reading the same thing. For both people immerse themselves into the reading. The book becomes a mirror in which the reader is reflected. But in the same way, the reader is also a mirror in which the book is reflected: The mirror in the mirror refers the reader back to himself. The FAZ, one of the major newspapers in Germany, writes that Michael Ende shows with the book “how much darkness, wildness and rawness is inherent in dreams. He does not trivialize. His dreams make reference to reality because in dreams, Cicero wrote, ‘the remnants of those objects roll and tumble about in the souls which we have thought and impelled while awake’.”

The Mirror Thief

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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195156
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror Thief by : Martin Seay

Download or read book The Mirror Thief written by Martin Seay and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay’s debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination—was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?—the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however—a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose—has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . . Meanwhile, in two other Venices—Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today—two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . . All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down—an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428738
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Parliament the Mirror of the Nation by : Gregory Conti

Download or read book Parliament the Mirror of the Nation written by Gregory Conti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

The Mirror Book

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780143776000
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror Book by : Charlotte Grimshaw

Download or read book The Mirror Book written by Charlotte Grimshaw and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved into her memories, the more the real characters in her life seemed to object. So what was the truth of 'a whole life lived in fiction'? This is a vivid account of a New Zealand upbringing, where rebellion was encouraged, where trouble and tragedy lay ahead. It looks beyond the public face to the 'messy reality of family life - and much more'."--Back cover.

Philly & Friends: Who Do I See in the Mirror?

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Publisher : Philly & Belle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1999349806
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Philly & Friends: Who Do I See in the Mirror? by : Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

Download or read book Philly & Friends: Who Do I See in the Mirror? written by Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu and published by Philly & Belle Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Do I See in the Mirror? is the debut book from Philly & Friends. "There is only one me!" As Philly looks at her reflection in the mirror, she realises that from her curly hair to her legs that love to dance, she is unique. But what makes her truly special is her good heart and curious mind. The important message conveyed is for children to love the skin they are in. It's what you are on the inside that matters most. Philly & Friends is a contemporary children's brand created to empower literacy. We offer unique products that encourage confidence, self-love and diversity in our beloved children while supporting underprivileged children around the world. Philly & Friends was born out of a desire to teach children to see beauty in themselves and to believe they can be anything they want to be. ***Children's picture book with a purpose, each book sold ships a book to Africa, empowering literacy.***

The Hand on the Mirror

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444799185
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hand on the Mirror by : Janis Heaphy Durham

Download or read book The Hand on the Mirror written by Janis Heaphy Durham and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham's husband, Max Besler, died of esophageal cancer at age 56. While coping with her grief, Janis soon began encountering phenomena unlike anything she had ever experienced: lights flickering, doors opening and closing, clocks stopping at 12:44, the exact time Max died. But then something startling happened that changed her life forever. A powdery handprint spontaneously appeared on her bathroom mirror on the first anniversary of Max's death. Incredibly, a similar image appeared on the second and third anniversaries as well. Clearly, something otherworldly was occurring. This launched Janis on a journey that transformed her spiritually and altered her view of reality forever. She interviewed scientists and spiritual practitioners along the way, as she discovered that the veil between this world and the next is thin, and that love is what bridges the two.

In The Mirror

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1736162101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis In The Mirror by : Fabian E. Ferguson

Download or read book In The Mirror written by Fabian E. Ferguson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This short story inspires pride and confidence in children by showing the simple beauty of imagining greatness for oneself"--

Behind The Mirror

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Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781977234018
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Behind The Mirror by : Ti'sha Loving-Williams

Download or read book Behind The Mirror written by Ti'sha Loving-Williams and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have our own journey to live, however, it is so pleasing to be able to help provide, what I hope is a helpful guide for others. Reading these stories from people that have experienced life challenges of loss, abuse, divorce, rape, marriage, love, happiness and illness can serve as a reminder that we are not alone in our own journey. These journeys beg to be read by anyone that discovers this book. Behind The Mirror is a genuine account of life experiences and perseverance. This book can be a tool in your toolbox that helps keep your life house standing and strong. It will give you an opportunity to learn and grow and provide a challenge when you're stagnant. It can also help you avoid obstacles you may not have otherwise recognized.

Monsters in the Mirror

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Publisher : UCLan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912979063
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Monsters in the Mirror by : A J Hartley

Download or read book Monsters in the Mirror written by A J Hartley and published by UCLan Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Darwen Arkwright's ordinary life changed forever when he was given a magical mirror, a portal to the wonderful world of Silbrica. Darwen defeated the terrible monsters released from the mirror once. Now, an even more terrifying beast has escaped through the mirror. Darwen and his friends, Rik and Alexandra, must journey to Costa Rica to save the world from a giant tentacled creature that leaves destruction in its wake. This time, old allies can't be trusted, and the danger runs deeper than Darwen could have ever imagined. The problem with doors is that they open both ways. There are monsters inside, and some of them are trying to get out ...

The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244164
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition by : Gregory Hickok

Download or read book The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition written by Gregory Hickok and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the monkey watched someone else perform similar motor actions. Researchers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their actions in its own brain. Mirror neurons soon jumped species and took human neuroscience and psychology by storm. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the cells provided an elegantly simple new way to explain the evolution of language, the development of human empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. In the years that followed, a stream of scientific studies implicated mirror neurons in everything from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning. In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation—a pair of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behavior, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds? The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress—from discovery to theory to revision—but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.

The Tain of the Mirror

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674867017
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tain of the Mirror by : Rodolphe Gasché

Download or read book The Tain of the Mirror written by Rodolphe Gasché and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible.

The Mirror of Her Dreams

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0307819248
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror of Her Dreams by : Stephen R. Donaldson

Download or read book The Mirror of Her Dreams written by Stephen R. Donaldson and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems. . . . The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life—until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And yet, much to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she agrees. Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing to see her dead.

The Window and the Mirror

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Publisher : Oesteria and the War of Goblinkind
ISBN 13 : 9781644283295
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Window and the Mirror written by Henry Thomas and published by Oesteria and the War of Goblinkind. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power to bend the race of men to your will...worth starting a war for. A captured soldier must escort a mysterious girl to a distant city to broker peace between two peoples poised on the brink of war. Left to die in a deep chasm, his commander stumbles on to a dark and powerful secret: how to harness the energy of men's souls and bend them to his will. Is this the secret that Goblinkind has been hiding from the race of men? That all the shiny trinkets of the fabled Goblincrafters are powered by the trapped souls of humans? For Mage Imperator Rhael Lord Uhlmet, the lure of such power is irresistible, even if he must start a war to attain it.