The Mind S Eye Lost Man 5

Author : David Roy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326348717

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The Mind's Eye (Lost Man 5) by David Roy Pdf

Author : David Roy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244640811

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Terminus by David Roy Pdf

Author : David Roy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291057638

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The Lost Man by David Roy Pdf

Author : David Roy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244339692

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Smoke Without Fire by David Roy Pdf

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307366368

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The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Pdf

From the author of the #1 national bestselling Musicophilia comes a truly visionary book: an exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding new forms of perception to create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world. Following the phenomenal success of his international bestseller Musicophilia, the inimitable Oliver Sacks returns with another book on the extraordinary interaction between our brain and our senses — in this case, vision. In The Mind's Eye, Sacks examines questions ranging from the primary experiences of how we perceive depth or color or motion to the complex matter of how different individuals have varied ways of thinking and experiencing or recreating the visual world. Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks's new book is based primarily on individual stories — including Sacks's own experience of an ocular tumor that left him unable to perceive depth. As always, he embeds these case histories in a rich historical and scientific context. Sacks goes beyond basic vision to explore perception, hallucination and the power of visualization, as well as the ocular effects of migraine, epilepsy and other conditions. Oliver Sacks is our perfect guide to the visual world, a realm that, it turns out, is much, much more complicated than we could have imagined.

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307594556

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The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Pdf

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.

Author : Dr. Guy Leschziner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781250272379

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The Man Who Tasted Words by Dr. Guy Leschziner Pdf

In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us. Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable? The Man Who Tasted Words shows that what we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning—the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance—is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control. In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner explores how our nervous systems define our worlds and how we can, in fact, be victims of falsehoods perpetrated by our own brains. In his moving and lyrical chronicles of lives turned upside down by a disruption in one or more of their five senses, he introduces readers to extraordinary individuals, like one man who actually “tasted” words, and shows us how sensory disruptions like that have played havoc, not only with their view of the world, but with their relationships as well. The cases Leschziner shares in The Man Who Tasted Words are extreme, but they are also human, and teach us how our lives and what we perceive as reality are both ultimately defined by the complexities of our nervous systems.

Author : Craig B. Polenz
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781617392573

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The Chronicles of Elijah by Craig B. Polenz Pdf

Step by step, we shall follow the prophet Elijah through God's holy terrain, diligently dissecting divine truths along the awe-inspiring highway toward glory. We shall shake the ground of religion and rattle the cage of restraint. God's intent is to set us free. But are you inclined to follow, no matter the cost? In this informative and approachable guide, Craig Polenz carefully examines each aspect of Elijah's life and explains its relevance in terms we can easily understand today. Whether it is responding to God's initial call, pulling oneself out of the pit of despair and self-pity, or surviving the whirlwind of everyday living, there are valuable lessons to be gleaned from the prophet. It is only when we set aside everything else to seek God wholeheartedly that we can become His inspired and divinely-empowered agents of change. In an expert blend of studious research and humor, Craig shows readers that The Chronicles of Elijah are the perfect road map for our Christian journey.

Author : B. Forshaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230363502

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Death in a Cold Climate by B. Forshaw Pdf

Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .

Author : Elizabeth Caroline Dodd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780803215665

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In the Mind's Eye by Elizabeth Caroline Dodd Pdf

The author of Archetypal Light explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest, in a collection of exquisite essays.

Author : June Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192554499

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The Center of the World by June Howard Pdf

Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this study explores how regional writing shapes ways of imagining not only the neighborhood or the province, but also the nation, and ultimately the world. Its key premise is that thinking about place always entails imagining time. It analyzes how concepts crystallize across disciplines and in everyday discourse and proposes ways of revising American literary history and close readings of particular authors' work. It demonstrates, for example, the importance of the figure of the school-teacher and the one-room schoolhouse in local color and subsequent place-focused writing. Such representations embody the contested relation in modernity between localities and the knowledge they produce, and books that carry metropolitan and cosmopolitan learning. The volume discusses fiction from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including works by Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Gaines, Wendell Berry, and Ursula LeGuin as well as romance novels and regional mysteries.

Author : Samuel Ayscough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002024343Z

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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare by Samuel Ayscough Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : UVA:X002171517

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Schwann by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Marshall,Emily Masty
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782981386335

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Mind's Eye by Susan Marshall,Emily Masty Pdf

Based on over two decades of extensive interviews, Mind’s Eye documents the stories told by eighteen Cree elders in Whapmagoostui, a mixed community of Cree, Inuit, and non-Natives, located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Great Whale River in northern Quebec. From testimonies about battles with the Inuit, raids by Cree from southern James Bay, and early contact with Europeans, to simple descriptions of playing games and making caribou-skin coats, these stories record the history of the James Bay Cree and illustrate the degree to which the presence of the supernatural was considered a normal part of daily life. More recent stories tell of challenges to the Whapmagoostui Cree community in the first half of the twentieth century—the influence of Christian missionaries, the decline of game animals, and the establishment of the military base at Great Whale River. Recorded from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, the stories were told against the backdrop of proposed hydroelectric development on the Great Whale River and Little Whale River that would threaten the health, livelihood and culture of the Cree and Inuit communities in the region. This evocative collection of stories from northern Quebec connects readers to the vibrant history of the Whapmagoostui Cree, and aims to maintain this community’s rich cultural traditions. Storytellers: Sam Atchynia, Nellie Atchynia, Frankie Dick, Matthew George, Rupert George, John Kawapit, Suzanne Kawapit, William Kawapit, Noah Mamianskum, Ann Masty, Sam Masty, Samson Masty, Hannah Natachequan, Andrew Natachequan, Philip Natachequan, Joseph Rupert, Maggie Sandy, Peter Sandy, Ronnie Sheshamush

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : English language
ISBN : NLS:V000559083

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The Complete Concordance to Shakspere by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf