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Author | : William A. Donius |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1476751536 |
Updated edition of the author's Thought revolution published in 2012.
Author | : John Borstlap |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486823350 |
Essays by a prominent contemporary composer explore a current trend in classical music away from atonal characteristics and toward more traditional forms. Topics include cultural identity, musical meaning, and the aesthetics of beauty.
Author | : Mark Changizi |
Publisher | : BenBella Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010-06-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 193525121X |
In The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, complete with a number of full-color illustrations to demonstrate his conclusions and to engage the reader. Written for both the casual reader and the science buff hungry for new information, The Vision Revolution is a resource that dispels commonly believed perceptions about sight and offers answers drawn from the field's most recent research. Changizi focuses on four “why" questions: 1. Why do we see in color? 2. Why do our eyes face forward? 3. Why do we see illusions? 4. Why does reading come so naturally to us? Why Do We See in Color? It was commonly believed that color vision evolved to help our primitive ancestors identify ripe fruit. Changizi says we should look closer to home: ourselves. Human color vision evolved to give us greater insights into the mental states and health of other people. People who can see color changes in skin have an advantage over their color-blind counterparts; they can see when people are blushing with embarrassment, purple-faced with exertion or the reddening of rashes. Changizi's research reveals that the cones in our eyes that allow us to see color are exquisitely designed exactly for seeing color changes in the skin. And it's no coincidence that the primates with color vision are the ones with bare spots on their faces and other body parts; Changizi shows that the development of color vision in higher primates closely parallels the loss of facial hair, culminating in the near hairlessness and highly developed color vision of humans. Why Do Our Eyes Face Forward? Forward-facing eyes set us apart from most mammals, and there is much dispute as to why we have them. While some speculate that we evolved this feature to give us depth perception available through stereo vision, this type of vision only allows us to see short distances, and we already have other mechanisms that help us to estimate distance. Changizi's research shows that with two forward-facing eyes, primates and humans have an x-ray ability. Specifically, we're able to see through the cluttered leaves of the forest environment in which we evolved. This feature helps primates see their targets in a crowded, encroached environment. To see how this works, hold a finger in front of your eyes. You'll find that you're able to look “through" it, at what is beyond your finger. One of the most amazing feats of two forward-facing eyes? Our views aren't blocked by our noses, beaks, etc. Why Do We See Illusions? We evolved to see moving objects, not where they are, but where they are going to be. Without this ability, we couldn't catch a ball because the brain's ability to process visual information isn't fast enough to allow us to put our hands in the right place to intersect for a rapidly approaching baseball. “If our brains simply created a perception of the way the world was at the time light hit the eye, then by the time that perception was elicited—which takes about a tenth of a second for the brain to do—time would have marched on, and the perception would be of the recent past," Changizi explains. Simply put, illusions occur when our brain is tricked into thinking that a stationary two-dimensional picture has an element that is moving. Our brains project the “moving" element into the future and, as a result, we don't see what's on the page, but what our brain thinks will be the case a fraction of a second into the future. Why Does Reading Come So Naturally to Us? We can read faster than we can hear, which is odd, considering that reading is relatively recent,
Author | : Helen Conroy |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1620878844 |
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Santiago Melazzini |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9789508890481 |
Photographs by Santiago Melazzini.
Author | : Hanno Berger |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2022-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110754703 |
This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.
Author | : Rachel Basinger |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1620234181 |
Preface: March 17, 1883 -- Trier (1818-1836) -- Bonn and Berlin (1836-1842) -- Cologne (1842-1843) -- Paris (1843-1845) -- Brussels (1845-1848) -- Cologne II (1848-1849) -- London I (1849-1859): "The second as farce" -- London II (1859-1883): "The greatest living thinker" -- Major works: the Jewish question, the Communist Manifesto, and Das Kapital -- Lasting significance and legacy: "A not very important nineteenth century philosopher
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1432 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : World politics |
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