On Seeing

Author : F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715635360
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Gary Klein
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392752
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Michelle Dunn Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735642321
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : William R. Uttal
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317668928
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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 364 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.

Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047410890
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Henry Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.VF/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Laurence Klavan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822210252
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Thomas Steffe CRISP
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Errol Morris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124250
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Believing Is Seeing written by Errol Morris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academy Award–winning director Errol Morris turns his eye to the nature of truth in photography In his inimitable style, Errol Morris untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs. Each essay in this book is part detective story, part philosophical meditation, presenting readers with a conundrum, and investigates the relationship between photographs and the real world they supposedly record. Believing Is Seeing is a highly original exploration of photography and perception, from one of America’s most provocative observers.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252986
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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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