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Author : Michel Pastoureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Black written by Michel Pastoureau and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the history of the color black, its various meanings and representations.
Author : Amy Butler Greenfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061980897
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book A Perfect Red written by Amy Butler Greenfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”—Houston Chronicle Interweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfield’s masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and precious—a source of wealth and power for those who could unlock its secrets. And in this world nothing was more prized than cochineal, a red dye that produced the brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen. A Perfect Red recounts the story of this legendary red dye, from its cultivation by the ancient Mexicans and discovery by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to the European pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies who joined in the chase to unlock its secrets, a chase that lasted more than three centuries. It evokes with style and verve this history of a grand obsession, of intrigue, empire, and adventure in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth.
Author : Jonathan Cohen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609609
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Red and the Real written by Jonathan Cohen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red and the Real offers a new approach to longstanding philosophical puzzles about what colors are and how they fit into the natural world. Jonathan Cohen argues for a role-functionalist treatment of color - a view according to which colors are identical to certain functional roles involving perceptual effects on subjects. Cohen first argues (on broadly empirical grounds) for the more general relationalist view that colors are constituted in terms of relations between objects, perceivers, and viewing conditions. He responds to semantic, ontological, and phenomenological objections against this thesis, and argues that relationalism offers the best hope of respecting both empirical results and ordinary belief about color. He then defends the more specific role functionalist-account by contending that the latter is the most plausible form of color relationalism.
Author : Elena Phipps
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393615
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Cochineal Red written by Elena Phipps and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized." "This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-colored treasure in several media and throughout the world.
Author : Rob DeSalle
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643134420
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of Color written by Rob DeSalle and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A star curator at the American Museum of Natural History widens the palette and shows how the physical, natural, and cultural context of color are inextricably tied to what we see right before our eyes. Is color a phenomenon of science or a thing of art? Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see, embraced through the experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, on and on, a vivid and vibrant celebrated continuum. These turns to represent reality in “living color” echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It’s everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of anything about it? Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural History of Color establishes that an understanding of color on many different levels is at the heart of learning about nature, neurobiology, individualism, even a philosophy of existence. Color and a fine tuned understanding of it is vital to understanding ourselves and our consciousness.
Author : Carrie Cariello
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784500941
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)
Download or read book What Color is Monday? written by Carrie Cariello and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One day Jack asked me, 'What color do you see for Monday?' 'What?' I said distractedly. 'Do you see days as colors?" Raising five children would be challenge enough for most parents, but when one of them has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, life becomes a bit more chaotic, a lot more emotional, and full of fascinating glimpses into a unique child's different way of thinking. In this moving memoir, Carrie Cariello invites us to take a peek into exactly what it takes to get through each day juggling the needs of her whole family. Through hilarious mishaps, honest insights, and heartfelt letters addressed to her children, she shows us the beauty and wonder of raising a child who views the world through a different lens, and how ultimately autism changed her family for the better.
Author : Pierce Brown
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345539796
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Red Rising written by Pierce Brown and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. “Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness “I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.” “I live for you,” I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.” Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. Praise for Red Rising “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler “Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Author : Joann Eckstut
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 9781579129491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Secret Language of Color written by Joann Eckstut and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world. Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these questions, nor are we aware that color pervades nearly all aspects of life, from the subatomic realm and the natural world to human culture and psychology. Organized into chapters that begin with a fascinating explanation of the physics and chemistry of color, The Secret Language of Color travels from outer space to Earth, from plants to animals to humans. In these chapters we learn about how and why we see color, the nature of rainbows, animals with color vision far superior and far inferior to our own, how our language influences the colors we see, and much more. Between these chapters, authors Joann Eckstut and Ariele Eckstut turn their attention to the individual hues of the visible spectrum?red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet?presenting each in fascinating, in-depth detail. Including hundreds of stunning photographs and dozens of informative, often entertaining graphics, every page is a breathtaking demonstration of color and its role in the world around us. Whether you see red, are a shrinking violet, or talk a blue streak, this is the perfect book for anyone interested in the history, science, culture, and beatuty of color in the natural and man-made world.
Author : Little Bee Books
Publisher : little bee books
ISBN 13 : 9781499805314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book My Book of Blue written by Little Bee Books and published by little bee books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce little ones to all sorts of blue objects in their world in this new bold board book! In My Book of Blue, little ones will be introduced to all sorts of different blue objects that they can encounter in their world, such as whales, birds, blueberries, and more! Each page includes embossed textures, creating a tactile experience for tiny hands. The pages of this book are filled with familiar, kid-friendly objects, and kids will be invited to identify other blue objects on the last spread!
Author : Christine Ammer
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452270404
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Seeing Red Or Tickled Pink written by Christine Ammer and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1993-10-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging compendium of 750 color-related terms--their origins and definitions--in 12 chapters covering color families, from White as Snow to All the Colors of the Rainbow. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kristin Sterling
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
ISBN 13 : 1512464635
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Red Everywhere written by Kristin Sterling and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Look around you. Do you see a stop sign? Ripe strawberries or tomatoes? A fire engine? Red birds or flowers? The color red is found in nature, in foods, in the community, and many other places. Read this book and become an expert at spotting red everywhere! Learn about the colors you see all around you in the Colors Everywhere series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038908
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Seeing Red written by Nicholas Humphrey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliantly inventive account of the evolution of consciousness, the best yet” (Paul Broks, Prospect). “Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is.” Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What’s involved in “seeing red”? What is it like for us to see someone else seeing something red? Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it also creates a new fact—a sensation in each of our minds, the feeling of redness. And that’s the mystery. Conventional science so far hasn’t told us what conscious sensations are made of, or how we get access to them, or why we have them at all. From an evolutionary perspective, what’s the point of consciousness? Humphrey offers a daring and novel solution, arguing that sensations are not things that happen to us, they are things we do—originating in our primordial ancestors’ expressions of liking or disgust. Tracing the evolutionary trajectory through to human beings, he shows how this has led to sensations playing the key role in the human sense of Self. The Self, as we now know it from within, seems to have fascinating other-worldly properties. It leads us to believe in mind-body duality and the existence of a soul. And such beliefs—even if mistaken—can be highly adaptive, because they increase the value we place on our own and others’ lives. “Consciousness matters,” Humphrey concludes with striking paradox, “because it is its function to matter. It has been designed to create in human beings a Self whose life is worth pursuing.” Praise for Seeing Red “A wonderful amalgam of science, philosophy, and art. [Seeing Red] is based on deep knowledge of visual processing by the brain and poetic understanding of human experience. This is a remarkable achievement.” —Richard Gregory, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Bristol, and editor of The Oxford Companion to the Mind “A brief, brilliant, and wonderfully lucid contribution to consciousness studies. By combining empirical scientific method, evolutionary theory, and a sensitive appreciation of the arts, Nicholas Humphrey argues plausibly that the “hard problem” of consciousness—the difficulty of explaining the connection between the material brain and the phenomenon of individual selfhood—may itself be the answer to a bigger question: what makes us human?”—David Lodge, author of Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays “Illustrating his argument with the musings of poets and painters, Humphrey stylishly inspires curiosity about consciousness.” —Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
Author : Charlotte Bronte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857200046
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Jane Slayre written by Charlotte Bronte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reader, I buried him.' So begins Sherri Browning Erwin's affectionate, funny and brilliantly clever monster mash-up of everyone's favourite literary classic. Mrs Reed and her children are vampires, Lowood is run by a voodoo headmaster who is turning his pupils into the walking dead, Mr Rochester's first wife is a werewolf, and Jane must learn to embrace her destiny as a slayer of evil before she can win her heart's desire. What's not to love? Jane Slayreis the one classic which can give Pride and Prejudice and Zombiesa run for its money, and Sherri Browning Erwin's masterful take on a timeless tale will delight monster fans and lovers of Charlotte Bronte alike.
Author : Patricia Angela Sieber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742511385
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Red is Not the Only Color written by Patricia Angela Sieber and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As urban China has undergone a rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone for the exploration of the meaning of social change. The short fiction in this volume highlights tensions between tradition and modernization, family and state, art and commerce, love and sex.
Author : Michel Pastoureau
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674047822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Bear written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.
Author : Optical Society of America. Committee on Colorimetry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Science of Color written by Optical Society of America. Committee on Colorimetry and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher : Rutledge Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 9781401602284
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Red Is the Color of My True Love's Neck written by Jeff Foxworthy and published by Rutledge Hill Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who see the romance and beauty of correctly spelling a girlfriend's name on a tattoo, serving fast food at a wedding reception, and watching a wife's delivery video backwards for laughs, this gift book from Jeff Foxworthy is perfect.
