The Sense Of Touch

Author : Ron Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Sense of Touch written by Ron Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 Sprung from the variously lush, rugged, and frozen emotional landscapes of the north country, this luminous collection of stories captures the progress of a diverse ensemble of souls as they struggle to uncover themselves and negotiate a meaningful communion, of any kind, with the world around them. A brilliant but troubled Bangladeshi physics student searches for balance, acceptance, and his own extraordinary destiny after his father disappears. When a Halloween blizzard immobilizes Minneapolis, a young woman is forced to confront the snow-bound nature of her own relationships and emotions. During an excursion to an idyllic swimming hole hidden in the Black Hills, two old friends unexpectedly compete for the affections of an irresistible, though married, Lakota woman. Like a mythical expedition to reach the horizon or the quest to distill truth from the beauty around us, the revelation confirmed by these imaginative stories - elegant, sometimes jarring, always wonderfully absurd - is that the very act of reaching is itself a form of touch.

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780531218365
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Sense of Touch written by Elaine Landau and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the role of the sense of touch in human life; the parts played by the skin, nerves and brain in feeling; pain and other reactions to touch; technological developments afffecting touch; and the psychological importance of the sense.

Author : Mark Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000190153
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Senses of Touch written by Mark Paterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Picking through some of these threads, the book 'feels' its way towards writing and thinking about touch as both sensory and affective experience. Taking a broadly phenomenological framework that traces tactility from Aristotle through the Enlightenment to the present day, the book examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies. The Senses of Touch thereby demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the diverse range of our 'senses' of touch.

Author : Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004477489
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin written by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative ideal, as signified by the sense of sight, to an active reality, as signified by the sense of touch. From posture to piety, from manicure to magic, the book discovers touch in a critical period of its historical development, in anatomy and society. It features new interpretations of two landmarks of western civilization: Michelangelo's fresco of the Creation of Adam and Calvin's doctrine of election. It also accords special attention to the typing of women as sensual creatures by using their hands as a heuristic. Its alternative interpretations explore in theory and in practice the sensuality, the creativity, and the plain utility of hands, thus integrating biology and culture.

Author : Mari Schuh
Publisher : Bellwether Media
ISBN 13 : 1612112986
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sense of Hearing, The written by Mari Schuh and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that you don't remember all the sounds you hear in a day? Your brain lets you know what sounds are important to pay attention to. Students will discover how their ears allow them to hear loud noises, whispers, music, and many other sounds.

Author : Alberto Gallace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199644462
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book In Touch with the Future written by Alberto Gallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the science of touch. It brings together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. The book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge regarding themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness (consciousness) and tactile attention.

Author : Jay A. Gottfried
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 142006729X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward written by Jay A. Gottfried and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing coverage of sensation and reward into a comprehensive systems overview, Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward presents a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach to the interplay of sensory and reward processing in the brain. While over the past 70 years these areas have drifted apart, this book makes a case for reuniting sensation a

Author : Constance Classen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094409
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Deepest Sense written by Constance Classen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity. This intimate and sensuous approach to history makes it possible to foreground the tactile foundations of Western culture--the ways in which feelings shaped society. Constance Classen explores a variety of tactile realms including the feel of the medieval city; the tactile appeal of relics; the social histories of pain, pleasure, and affection; the bonds of touch between humans and animals; the strenuous excitement of sports such as wrestling and jousting; and the sensuous attractions of consumer culture. She delves into a range of vital issues, from the uses--and prohibitions--of touch in social interaction to the disciplining of the body by the modern state, from the changing feel of the urban landscape to the technologization of touch in modernity. Through poignant descriptions of the healing power of a medieval king's hand or the grueling conditions of a nineteenth-century prison, we find that history, far from being a dry and lifeless subject, touches us to the quick.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : No Limits
ISBN 13 : 9780231199537
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Touch written by Richard Kearney and published by No Limits. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.

Author : David J. Linden
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143128442
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Touch written by David J. Linden and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Compass of Pleasure" examines how our sense of touch is interconnected with our emotions Dual-function receptors in our skin make mint feel cool and chili peppers hot.