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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In his first major book, Lotto draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didn't evolve to see the world accurately. It can't! Visually stunning, with entertaining illustrations and optical illusions throughout, and with clear and comprehensive explanations of the science behind how our perceptions operate, Deviate will revolutionize the way you see yourself, others and the world."--Amazon.com.
2) Restart
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
6) The gift
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Annie has 'the Gift'. Some fear her, others claim she's a witch. But now, a murder has ben committed and only she can solve it. On a twisted trail of open infidelity and jealous rage, she sees visions that will haunt her and discovers a truth that will tear the town apart"--Promotional materials.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
The seven lessons in this video, presented by noted author and educator, Dr. Betty Edwards, will teach you the basic skills of drawing and will enhance your capacity for creativity.
Dr. Betty Edwards, Director of the Center for the Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research, California State University, Long Beach, discusses the differences between the left and right brain and the need for both, during a lecture given at Ball State University's...
10) Zoom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
The author offers a groundbreaking examination of human perception.
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they...
13) The mind's eye
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Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book 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...
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Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; cm
Description
"Timekeepers is a vivid exploration of the ways we have perceived, contained and saved time over the last 250 years, narrated in the highly inventive and entertaining style that bestselling author Simon Garfield is fast making his own. As managing time becomes the greatest challenge we face in our lives, this multi-layered history helps us tackle it in a sparkling new light."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new...
18) The other side
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
A wordless picture book that shows a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.
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For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling,...
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