Download or read book Death Perception written by Victoria Laurie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Cooper?s betting the house on her inner eye... It took a while for Abby Cooper?s FBI agent boyfriend, Dutch Rivers, to accept her psychic gifts as the real deal. But these days he knows better than to question Abby?s visions. So when his favorite cousin Chase is kidnapped in Vegas, they both catch the next flight to Sin City. Abby?s inner eye insists that Chase is still alive, but nothing else about the case adds up?especially Dutch?s reluctance to involve his own Bureau. On top of everything, Dutch is battling a mysterious illness, and Abby keeps having disturbing dreams that predict his death. Dutch wants Abby to promise that if the investigation goes south, she?ll head home to safety. But when the chips are down, Abby won?t fold without a fight...
Download or read book Depth Perception written by Dedrick D.L. Pitter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book, Dedrick ushers the reader into a space where only his deepest musings reside. From poems of love, anger, and spirituality - he makes sure to have something for everyone to grasp. In an endeavor to give life to the phrase "my life is an open book," join Dedrick as he explores his inner self, and find out just how deep he is in Depth Perception.
Download or read book Depth Perception written by Robin Morgan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth book of poems from award-winning author Robin Morgan has an almost-novelistic shape, with plot twists that are realizations of self, other, and the nature of change In this book of transitions, Robin Morgan’s poetry crosses the boundaries of age, race, culture, and gender. The lifelong love-hate passion between mother and daughter is here, as is a vivid, rhetoric-free depiction of the suffering and rage of women cross-culturally. Morgan also traces the slow dissolution of a marriage, parsed in poems of alternating hope and despair, humor and fury—and also in a tragicomic, two-character, one-act verse play, “The Duel: A Masque.” The play, which inverts the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, was performed at the Public Theater in New York City. Praised by the literary world for her technique, but dedicated to keeping her craft accessible and impassioned, Morgan takes us through inevitable deaths and resurrections of the self in pitch-perfect language shot through with dazzling imagery and irony.
Download or read book Perceiving in Depth Volume 3 Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception written by Ian P. Howard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 3 addresses all depth-perception mechanisms other than stereopsis. The book starts with an account of monocular cues to depth, including accommodation, vergence eye movements, perspective, interposition, shading, and motion parallax. A chapter on constancies in depth perception, such as the ability to perceive the sizes and shapes of objects as they move or rotate in depth, is followed by a chapter on the ways in which depth cues interact. The next chapter reviews sources of information, such as changing disparity, image looming, and vergence eye movements, used in the perception of objects moving in depth. Various pathologies of depth perception, including visual neglect, stereoanomalies, and albanism are reviewed. Visual depth-perception mechanisms through the animal kingdom are described, starting with insects and progressing through crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The chapter includes a discussion of how stereoscopic vision may have evolved. The next chapter describes how visual depth perception is used to guide reaching movements of the hand, avoiding obstacles, and walking to a distant object. The next three chapters review non-visual mechanisms of depth perception. Auditory mechanisms include auditory localization, echolocation in bats and marine mammals, and the lateral-line system of fish. Some fish emit electric discharges and then use electric sense organs to detect distortions of the electric field produced by nearby objects. Some beetles and snakes use heat-sensitive sense organs to detect sources of heat. The volume ends with a discussion of mechanisms used by animals to navigate to a distant site. Ants find their way back to the nest by using landmarks and by integrating their walking movements. Several animals navigate by the stars or by polarized sunlight. It seems that animals in several phyla navigate by detecting the Earths magnetic field.
Download or read book Recent Researches in Education written by Emin Atasoy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions; pre-service teachers; children and play; early childhood education; elements of education; children’s rights; digital education; attitudes of students towards the environment; art education; and problem solving skills, among many others. It will attract the attention of researchers, but will also be of great interest to academics, teachers, students and staff in social sciences departments and related researchers.
Download or read book The Psychology of Death written by Robert Kastenbaum, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-02-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extensively updated and revised edition, Dr. Kastenbaum continues to examine and expand upon issues of dying and the ways in which we shape and reshape our conceptions of death. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death; Death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician assisted death and Regret Theory and Denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety, Terror Management Theory, and Edge Theory, and much more. A major contribution to the literature -- this book is must reading for professionals and students of psychology, thanatology, gerontology, social work, and those working in hospice care.
Download or read book Death Perception written by Victoria Laurie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Cooper?s betting the house on her inner eye... It took a while for Abby Cooper?s FBI agent boyfriend, Dutch Rivers, to accept her psychic gifts as the real deal. But these days he knows better than to question Abby?s visions. So when his favorite cousin Chase is kidnapped in Vegas, they both catch the next flight to Sin City. Abby?s inner eye insists that Chase is still alive, but nothing else about the case adds up?especially Dutch?s reluctance to involve his own Bureau. On top of everything, Dutch is battling a mysterious illness, and Abby keeps having disturbing dreams that predict his death. Dutch wants Abby to promise that if the investigation goes south, she?ll head home to safety. But when the chips are down, Abby won?t fold without a fight...
Download or read book Materialities of Passing written by Peter Bjerregaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay. This book begins with the idea that since all material things - whether animals, human beings, objects or buildings - undergo some form of passing, then the specific transformation in these passages and the materiality actively given to it can offer us a grasp of otherwise precarious temporalities. It examines how human beings strive to relate to the temporal dimension of death and decay, by giving new shape and direction to being and by examining its natural transformations. Focusing on the materiality of passing, and thereby the relationship between embodiment, temporality and death, Materialities of Passing offers rich case studies from Europe, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the Russian Far East for exploring the material, spatial and directional aspects of the very interface between life and death. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, death studies, archaeology, philosophy and cultural studies.
Download or read book Perception of Death written by Louise Anderson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some things it’s better not to know. In Louise Anderson’s terrifying debut thriller, a twisted killer brings to life a woman’s worst nightmare–a dark secret she hoped she’d never have to face again. Hardly ten A.M. and attorney Erin Paterson was already having the worst day of her life. One of Glasgow’s top litigation lawyers, her specialty was victim compensation, not criminal law. But in the next twenty-four hours, she’d assault her soon-to-be-ex boyfriend and become the chief suspect in the brutal murder of an old schoolmate. Erin hardly remembered Lucy Grant, so what were messages from the dead woman and her killer doing on her phone the day of the murder? It’s a question that will soon unravel Erin’s carefully wrapped life to uncover a family trauma she and her troubled sister have done their best to leave behind. Suddenly Erin’s on the verge of losing everything–her reputation, her family’s law firm, and her life. For she’s on the short list of a serial killer concealed in the one place she’d almost rather die than look….
Download or read book Digital Human Modeling Applications in Health Safety Ergonomics and Risk Management Health and Safety written by Vincent G. Duffy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 10286 + 10287 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management, DHM 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 75 papers presented in these volumes were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: anthropometry, ergonomics, design and comfort; human body and motion modelling; smart human-centered service system design; and human-robot interaction. Part II: clinical and health information systems; health and aging; health data analytics and visualization; and design for safety.
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention written by Danuta Wasserman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, the new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention remains a key text in the field of suicidology, fully updated with new chapters devoted to major psychiatric disorders and their relation to suicide.
Download or read book Stress and Anxiety written by Petra Buchwald and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a lifetime, people are vulnerable to stress and anxiety in various domains, which may lead to impaired well-being and deteriorated health. To address both aspects, this book comprises two parts which deal with stress, anxiety and coping (1) over the life span and (2) in the context of health promotion. Part one is concerned with stressful person-environment interactions and the ways stress impact upon individual and group functioning in different life phases. For example, sources of adolescents' stress may include school demands and frustrations due to sexuality, while stress among the elderly might be caused by negative thoughts and feelings about physical deterioration and social isolation. Part two is dedicated to recent research on health promotion. Over time, stress and anxiety may lower resistance and make people more vulnerable to illness. From that perspective, antecedents, side effects and consequences of stress that may cause limitations in physical and psychological functioning are investigated, leading to a variety of serious health problems.
Download or read book The Linguistic Dimension of Kant s Thought written by Frank Schalow and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among modern philosophers, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) has few rivals for his influence over the development of contemporary philosophy as a whole. While the issue of language has become a key fulcrum of continental philosophy since the twentieth century, Kant has been overlooked as a thinker whose breadth of insight has helped to spearhead this advance. The Linguistic Dimension of Kant’s Thought remedies this historical gap by gathering new essays by distinguished Kant scholars. The chapters examine the many ways that Kant’s philosophy addresses the nature of language. Although language as a formal structure of thought and expression has always been part of the philosophical tradition, the “linguistic dimension” of these essays speaks to language more broadly as a practice including communication, exchange, and dialogue.
Download or read book Assessing Spirituality in a Diverse World written by Amy L. Ai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses an important problem in social scientific research on global religions and spirituality: How to evaluate the role of diverse religious and spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices within the rapid evolution of spiritual globalization and diversification trends. The book examines this question by bringing together a panel of international scholars including psychologists, sociologists, and researchers in religious studies, public health, medicine, and social work. The content includes chapters describing innovative concepts of post-Christian spirituality, Eastern forms of meditation, afterlife beliefs associated with the three dominant cultural legacies, various non-religious worldviews, spiritual Jihad, and secular and religious reverence. The book also covers such important themes as spiritual well-being, faith, struggle, meaning making, modeling, and support, as well as mysticism and using prayer to cope with existential crises. This book advances the understanding of the role of R/S across different faiths and cultural systems, including both Western and non-Western ones, and enriches the mainstream of psychological sciences and practices. It appeals to students, educators, researchers, and clinicians in multiple related fields and disciplines.
Download or read book The Eyes of Death written by Donald L Vasicek and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah Powers sustains a head injury, her prom queen world turns from white to black. During her best friend, Emily's funeral, she sees a white-gray ghost image radiating around Emily's casket, but no outline around Emily. This convinces Hannah that she is brain damaged even though her neuropsychologist tells her she is not. Then, she is plunged into a terrifying world of being able to predict death before it happens without being able to do anything about it.
Download or read book Foundations of Perception written by George Mather and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Perception provides a comprehensive general introduction to perception. All the major and minor senses are covered, not only examining them from a perceptual perspective but also taking into account their biological and physical context. In addition to covering all material essential to understanding the functioning of the senses, each chapter also includes a 'Tutorials' section. This provides an opportunity for more advanced students to explore supplementary information on recent or controversial developments in subjects such as: The physics and biology of audition ; Shape and object perception ; Individual differences in perception.
Download or read book Helping Children Cope With Grief written by Alan Wolfelt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. A common myth is that that young children (say around three years of age) do not understand death or give the death of friend, pet, brother, sister, parent, grandparent, other relative, or give it a Raggedy-Ann doll meaning. However, research has indicated that they do. If it is difficult for us to think about our death, it is the author’s hypothesis that to think of the death of our children is an even greater difficulty. We dread the thought of our children suffering pain, dying, and death. Similarly the thought of our children suffering grief is difficult for us to comprehend. Helping Children Cope With Grief is more universal to more than the area of grief and is a valuable tool for parents, teachers, and counselors when their goal is to develop happier, more loving children.
