Europe's Optical Illusion - Scholar's Choice Edition

Europe's Optical Illusion - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Norman Angell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781293986691

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Europe's Optical Illusion (Classic Reprint)

Europe's Optical Illusion (Classic Reprint)
Author: Norman Angell
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780331812077

Excerpt from Europe's Optical Illusion The sentimental motive for aggression - Why it is based on an illusion similar to that which creates the motive of material interest. - Signs of decay already apparent. History of the decay of the duel. - The Code Duello in international politics. - anglo-saxon world leading the way. - Material well-being the highest test of useful states manship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Optical Illusions Activity Book

Optical Illusions Activity Book
Author: Sam Taplin
Publisher: Usborne Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Optical illusions
ISBN: 9781409551591

An amazing, interactive book which allows children and adults to discover the world of optical illusions in a new way. By adding stickers and drawing patterns and shapes, you can create dozens of eye-popping illusions and find out how they work.

Vanities of the Eye

Vanities of the Eye
Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2007-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780199250134

In this original and fascinating book, Stuart Clark investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe. At a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was a focus for debate in medicine, art theory, science, and philosophy, there was an explosion of interest in the truth (or otherwise) of miracles, dreams, magic, and witchcraft. Was seeing really believing? Vanities of the Eye wonderfully illustrates how this was woven into contemporary works such as Macbeth - deeply concerned with the dangers of visual illusion - and exposes early modern theories on the relationship between the real and the virtual.

Masters of Deception

Masters of Deception
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781402705779

Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions
Author: Arthur Gilman Shapiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2017
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 019979460X

Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --

Living the Great Illusion

Living the Great Illusion
Author: Martin Ceadel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191570710

Sir Norman Angell, pioneer both of international relations as a distinct discipline and of the theory of globalization, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and one of the twentieth century's leading internationalist campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic, lived the great illusion in three senses. First, his 'life job', as he came to call it, was founded upon and defined by The Great Illusion, a best-seller whose original version appeared in 1909: it perceptively showed how economic interdependence would prevent great powers profiting from war; yet it made other, less felicitous, claims from whose implications he spent decades trying to extricate himself. Second, his magnum opus and all his best work derived, to an extent unusual for a public intellectual, not from abstract thinking but from an eventful and varied life as a jobbing journalist in four countries, a cowboy, land-speculator, and gold-prospector in California, production manager of the continental edition of the Daily Mail, author, lecturer, pig farmer, Labour MP, entrepreneur, and campaigner for collective security. Third, he fostered many an enduring illusion about himself by at various times giving wrongly his age, name, nationality, marital status, key career dates, and core beliefs. By dint of careful detective work, this first biography of Angell reveals the truth about a remarkable life that has hitherto been much misrepresented and misinterpreted.