Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Melvyn A. Goodale and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is just so rich, so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience from the world itself. Even when we just think about the world and don't look at it directly, we can't help but 'imagine' what it looks like. We think of 'seeing' as being a conscious activity--we direct our eyes, we choose what we look at, we register what we are seeing. The series of events described in this book radically altered this attitude towards vision. This book describes one of the most extraordinary neurological cases of recent years--one that profoundly changed scientific views on consciousness. It is the story of Dee Fletcher--a woman recently blinded--who became the subject of a series of scientific studies. As events unfolded, Milner and Goodale found that Dee wasn't in fact blind--she just didn't know that she could see. Taking us on a journey into the unconscious brain, the two scientists who made this incredible discovery tell the amazing story of their work, and the surprising conclusion they were forced to reach. Written to be accessible to students and popular science readers, this book is a fascinating illustration of the power of the 'unconscious' mind.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by David Carroll and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it feel like to know you are going blind? Thirteen-year-old Finn loves bike riding -- the more dangerous the trail, the better. But he had a spectacular crash a few months ago, and he's just received a diagnosis that will change his life. He is slowly going blind. In a few years his vision will be gone. Desperate to salvage something of his "last" summer, Finn invites a friend to the cottage and is drawn to a strange island that seems to glimmer -- but no one else can see it. When he gets close, he's sucked into something he could never have anticipated. Can Finn's friend Cheese help him come to terms with "lights out" . . . or will it take something much more extraordinary?
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Martin A. Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling and challenging work."—Frances K. Pohl, author of Framing America "Berger is unafraid to tackle the major issues, and this book shows it."—Bruce Robertson, author of Marsden Hartley and Reckoning with Winslow Homer "Berger, writing on topics as diverse as landscape photography and early film, pushes into fascinating issues of gender, race, and class with sensitivity, insight, and largely jargon-free analysis. Having made a mark as a key Eakins scholar, he promises to achieve a similar feat in Sight Unseen, getting us to rethink traditional material in a new light."—John Wilmerding, Christopher Binyon Sarofim Professor of American Art, Princeton University
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Ellyn Kaschak and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Iris Johansen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was safe in a world of darkness. Now danger threatens in the cold light of day... Before the experimental surgery that gave her sight, Kendra Michaels developed her other senses to an amazing capacity. Now she can identify a Nissan by the sound of its engine, a Norelco electric razor by the pattern of stubble it leaves behind, or an obscure colorless fire accelerant by its sweet smell. Law enforcement agencies clamor for her rare powers of perception and observation, too often disrupting the life she has built helping others through music therapy. Because so very often, only Kendra can get the job done. But in this case, it's Kendra who first realizes that the apparent traffic accident on San Diego's historic Cabrillo Bridge is in fact a murder scene, and she rushes to alert the police before crucial evidence is destroyed. As the body count rises and one murder unveils another, a gruesome pattern emerges. Someone is killing people in ways that mirror Kendra's most notorious cases. She has a fan: someone who admires her work and is twisted enough to show that admiration through murder--while naming himself after the biggest art forger of the 20th century. He views himself not as a monster but as an artist. And he is not working alone. In Iris Johansen's New York Times bestseller, Sight Unseen, as the darkness closes in, near enough to touch Kendra and those she loves, Kendra must come face to face with her greatest fears--and her most ruthless enemy. A man who moves through the shadows, a man she may even know, who hides behind the mask of sanity, sight unseen.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Georgina Kleege and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what it is like to be blind, or to be thought of as blind by sighted society, discusses how blindness has been portrayed in literature and film, and recounts the author's experiences adjusting to macular degeneration, learning braille, and coping with the inability to establish eye contact
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Andrew Menard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Frémont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditions he would lead to the Far West, Frémont and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. At the time, virtually this entire region was known as the Great Desert, and many Americans viewed it and the Rocky Mountains beyond as natural barriers to the United States. After Congress published Frémont's official report of the expedition, however, few doubted the nation should expand to the Pacific. The first in-depth study of this remarkable report, Sight Unseen argues that Frémont used both a radical form of art and an imaginary map to create an aesthetic desire for expansion. He not only redefined the Great Desert as a novel and complex environment, but on a summit of the Wind River Range, he envisioned the Continental Divide as a feature that would unify rather than impede a larger nation. In addition to provoking the great migration to Oregon and providing an aesthetic justification for the National Park system, Frémont's report profoundly altered American views of geography, progress, and the need for a transcontinental railroad. By helping to shape the very notion of Manifest Destiny, the report became one of the most important documents in the history of American landscape.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by James Swallow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on Star Trek and Star Trek: the next generation created by Gene Roddenberry."
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Budd Hopkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of "Witnessed" and "Intruders" returns with astonishing evidence that otherworldly beings are a very real--and growing--part of our earthly lives.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Robert Tinnell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind neuro-physicist Frank Byron's experiments, based on the visual and auditory processing of his seeing-eye dog, have given him the ability to see and hear spirits. Unfortunately for Frank, his newfound technological ability has thrust him into the heart of unfathomable evil. --Book jacket.
Download or read book Sight Unseen and Other Plays written by Donald Margulies and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1995 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of plays Margulies explores a range of themes including childhood, adolescence, parent-child relationships, death in the family and the struggles of an artist.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Donald Margulies and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jonathan Waxman is the artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world where a publicist is as necessary as a brush and canvas. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, Jonathan jou
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Andrew Neiderman and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy is blessed with second sight—and cursed by what he sees—in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate. A little knowledge can be a deadly thing. Everyone knows that David is a smart one. He can tell you the end of a story from the first sentence. The other kids won’t even go to the movies with him anymore; he always spoils the ending. People begin to wonder about David. There is, after all, such a thing as being too smart for your own good. David has learned the hard way to keep his thoughts to himself. But now David is growing up, and his gift is turning into a power. The power to read people’s minds. To see the future. To know things—terrifying things—that he didn’t want to know. Like who would live. And who would die . . .
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Melvyn Goodale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated and extended edition of their book, Goodale and Milner explore one of the most extraordinary neurological cases of recent years—one that profoundly changed scientific views on the visual brain. Taking us on a journey into the unconscious brain, this book is a fascinating illustration of the power of the 'unconscious' mind.
Download or read book London written by Antony Armstrong-Jones Earl of Snowdon and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about brick and mortar : the same wry look directed at London itself. The result is a surprising array of unique and varied architecture, so frequently overlooked.
Download or read book Sights Unseen written by Kaye Gibbons and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family portraits in lyrical prose, using as her palette the rich, vibrant colors of the American South. Sights Unseen shows the author at her most passionate and heartfelt best -- an unforgettable tale of unconditional love, and of a family's desperate search for normalcy in the midst of mental illness. It is a novel of rare poignancy, wit, and evocative power -- the story of the relationship between Hattie Barnes and her emotionally elusive mother, Maggie, known by their neighbors as "that Barnes woman with all the problems." This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Download or read book Sight Unseen written by Heidi Reed and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild and poignant exploration of love, loss, healing, and miracles on a writer's way home to herself. This book will ignite your heart, stir your imagination, and soothe your soul. In the spring of 2018 the author left behind a bad marriage and a tiny condo in New England to meet up with a spacious brown brick house on an acre of land in the American Southeast--purchased sight unseen. This is the story of how her traumatic past helped shape that fateful decision, and how the leap of faith unexpectedly lined her up with her Twin Flame, the lessons of Mother Nature, and the life experiences she needed to overcome her once-debilitating self-doubt.
