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The Extraordinary Eye

Taline Dorna
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Author : Taline Dorna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798584851699

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A family's journey of how an incredible young boy's cancer diagnosis leads to bravery, self discovery, and a new extraordinary eye! An illustrated children's story written to aid patients, and help their siblings understand retinoblastoma from diagnosis, to enucleation, to living with an ocular prosthesis. Join this family as they learn of a child's cancer diagnosis at the doctors office, treatment at the hospital, and acceptance of a new prosthesis at home. Meet all the wonderful doctors, ophthalmologists, nurses and ocularists that help out along the way. About the author Taline Dorna is an elementary teacher (grade one), by profession; and a mother to 3 children under the age of 6. When her youngest was 5 months old, he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma (a very rare eye cancer). She searched high and low for story books that feature a child with a prosthetic eye and they were few and far between. As a result, she decided to write a children's story book that could be used in a classroom setting as a social story; or for newly diagnosed patients, as well as a way to spread general awareness about retinoblastoma.

Extraordinary Eyes

Sandra Sinclair
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Author : Sandra Sinclair
Publisher : Dial
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000045780233

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Describes how vision works and compares and contrasts the eyes of such animals as the honeybee, fish, frog, and bird.

The Mind's Eye

Oliver Sacks
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Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307594556

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In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.

The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eye Stories

Maxim Jakubowski
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Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642500790

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A cornucopia of the best new whodunits, collected by one of the mystery scene’s eminent editors, “a giant of the genre” (Lee Childs). One of the best mystery books of the 21st century, this volume features outstanding new stories of crime, derring-do, fast-paced adventures, and puzzles, featuring hardy amateur detectives ranging from young to old and grizzled private eyes whose patches cover the city streets, all in the hallowed tradition of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Philip Marlowe. Jakubowski’s many anthologies, like The Book of Extraordinary Historical Mystery Stories, have attracted plenty of attention and awards. His newest collection, The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuths and Private Eye Stories, features never-before-seen short fiction by some of the most renowned American and British crime and thriller authors of today. Whether the victim was done in at the party uptown or discovered in the other room of a particularly difficult woman or man, these mysteries will have you reading at the edge of your seat. Praise for Maxim Jakubowski and His Books “I have been a fan of Maxim Jakubowski for years. There just is no finer mystery writer and editor anywhere. Find a comfortable chair and a strong drink and prepare to be enthralled.” —Alexander Algren, author of Out in a Flash: Murder Mystery Flash Fiction “Maxim Jakubowski is deeply experienced in the field . . . Sometimes a brief zap of great writing is just what you’re in the mood for or have time for. That’s when anthologies like his are ideal . . . intellectually outstanding.” —New York Journal of Books

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

Robert Dugoni
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Author : Robert Dugoni
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1638086907

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Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called "Devil Boy" or Sam "Hell" by his classmates; "God's will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother's devout faith, his father's practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends.

Sight Unseen

David Carroll
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Author : David Carroll
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Blindness
ISBN : 9781443146906

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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?

Children with Emerald Eyes

Mira Rothenberg
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Author : Mira Rothenberg
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1556434480

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Mira Rothenberg pioneered both the clinical distinction and treatment protocol for autistic and severely disturbed children as separate from those for the mentally retarded. Winner of a Woman of the Year award from the New York City Chamber of Commerce and the National Organization for Mentally Ill Children, she eloquently recounts a lifetime of taking on seemingly hopeless cases and bringing these children, through painstaking therapy and love, back into the world. Unflinchingly honest, whether dealing with the raw pain of her patients' lives or with Rothenberg's own complex feelings for them, Children with Emerald Eyes explores the landscape of mental illness while never losing sight of the humanity within each patient.

The Naked Eye

Charles Saatchi
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Author : Charles Saatchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781861543523

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Charles Saatchi's new book based on extraordinary unphotoshopped images

Look Me in the Eye

John Elder Robison
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Author : John Elder Robison
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307396181

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” It was not until he was forty that he was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way he saw himself—and the world. A born storyteller, Robison has written a moving, darkly funny memoir about a life that has taken him from developing exploding guitars for KISS to building a family of his own. It’s a strange, sly, indelible account—sometimes alien yet always deeply human.

The Life Project

Helen Pearson
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Author : Helen Pearson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781619028104

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In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching people across the globe, they are one of the world's best-kept secrets.

Eyes that Speak to the Stars

Joanna Ho
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Author : Joanna Ho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : 1955675589

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A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before-in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are visionary. Inspired by the men in his family, he recognizes his own power and strength from within. This extraordinary picture book redefines what it means to be truly you.

The Naked Eye

Yōko Tawada
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Author : Yōko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811217396

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"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency."--Michael Porter, The New York Times

Eye Level

Jenny Xie
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Author : Jenny Xie
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979928

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera For years now, I’ve been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse. I’ve gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight, my overreactive motion sickness. 9 p.m., Hanoi’s Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine. Voices outside the door come to a soft boil. —from “Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season” Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet, caught in between things and places, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “all that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.”

The Cosmological Eye

Henry Miller
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Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811201104

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A collection of prose by Henry Miller

The Extraordinary

Brad Schaeffer
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Author : Brad Schaeffer
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642939439

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Wesley Scott is a teenage boy with autism. He lives within his own intimate realm of sensory overload, dysfunction, sometimes violence, and fear of the outside world. He describes himself as the only actor on a stage without a script. We learn through Wes’ own words that he is a deep, thoughtful young man…but no one knows it. Wes is unable to connect with anyone other than his father, a captain in the Marine Corps. He in turn adores his extraordinary son, his “Ex-man,” as he fondly calls him. When Captain Scott ships off to fight in the Middle East, Wes is confused and senses foreboding in what it all means, although he cannot express it to his family, friends, or teachers. With his father overseas, Wes finds himself further isolated in a world of “Ords” (his dad’s term for the ordinaries, unlike his “Ex” son) and a stranger in his own family. His mother is distant and cold, his high school brother resents the inordinate attention his autistic brother constantly steals from him, and his twenty-something sister has chosen to move away from it all to Manhattan. The burden on the family gets exponentially worse when Captain Scott returns home wounded. The family tries to cope as best they can, but when his father succumbs to PTSD, Wes must somehow make sense of all that has happened—which is difficult for a teenager under normal conditions, let alone one on the autism spectrum who’s suddenly lost the only family member who ever really bothered to know him. The Scotts seem on the verge of unraveling and Wes finds himself in a bewildering land of family turmoil. How will Wes come to understand this tragedy? And how will the family ever come to fill the void left by a father who understood what the rest have yet to discover…that Wes is an extraordinary young man indeed. And that all of us, no matter how much the world seems to scorn our existence—or has simply forgotten our pain—have something extraordinary to offer and make that world a better place. Extraordinary is not just the title of this book—it’s a description of the beauty within the pages.