Seeing Things

Seeing Things
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466855738

Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.

Seeing Things My Way

Seeing Things My Way
Author: Alden R. Carter
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Children with visual disabilities
ISBN: 9780807572962

A second-grader describes how she and other students learn to use a variety of equipment and methods to cope with their visual impairments.

Things I'm Seeing Without You

Things I'm Seeing Without You
Author: Peter Bognanni
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0735228051

When tragedy strikes, Tess drops out of school and moves in with her funeral director dad, forcing her to examine life, death, and the boy she thought she knew and loved in a brand new light.

Seeing Things

Seeing Things
Author: Joel Meyerowitz
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781597113151

Uses photographs to provide examples on how to interpret and appreciate photographs, offering advice on characteristics such as color, timing, and emotion.

Making Things See

Making Things See
Author: Greg Borenstein
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2012-01-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449307078

A guide to creating computer applications using Microsoft Kinect features instructions on using the device with different operating systems, using 3D scanning technology, and building robot arms, all using open source programming language.

The Objective Leader

The Objective Leader
Author: Elizabeth R. Thornton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466879440

We are all subjective—it's human nature. We overreact to situations; we judge people too quickly and unfairly; we take something personally when it was not really meant that way. As a result, we lose relationships, reputation, money, and peace of mind. And in our ever-more-complex world, leaders must make decisions faster and with more conflicting information; widespread insecurity makes people territorial and risk-averse; and the consequences of every action are played out on a disproportionately large stage. Imagine how much more prepared Mitt Romney could have been for his landslide loss on election night, if his advisors had acknowledged the facts staring them in the face. To succeed, we must consciously seek to increase our objectivity—seeing and accepting things as they are without projecting our mental models, fears, background, and personal experiences onto them. This way, we not only avoid costly cognitive errors, but open ourselves to engage new cultures, new markets, and new opportunities. In The Objective Leader, Thornton draws on her original research, as well as her years of experience as a manager and entrepreneur, to offer proven strategies for identifying limiting and unproductive ways of thinking and creating powerful new mental models that ensure continued success.

Seeing Things as They are

Seeing Things as They are
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199385157

This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.

More Things in the Heavens

More Things in the Heavens
Author: Michael Werner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691191964

A sweeping tour of the infrared universe as seen through the eyes of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought the infrared universe into focus as never before. Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt are among the scientists who worked for decades to bring this historic mission to life. Here is their inside story of how Spitzer continues to carry out cutting-edge infrared astronomy to help answer fundamental questions that have intrigued humankind since time immemorial: Where did we come from? How did the universe evolve? Are we alone? In this panoramic book, Werner and Eisenhardt take readers on a breathtaking guided tour of the cosmos in the infrared, beginning in our solar system and venturing ever outward toward the distant origins of the expanding universe. They explain how astronomers use the infrared to observe celestial bodies that are too cold or too far away for their light to be seen by the eye, to conduct deep surveys of galaxies as they appeared at the dawn of time, and to peer through dense cosmic clouds that obscure major events in the life cycles of planets, stars, and galaxies. Featuring many of Spitzer’s spectacular images, More Things in the Heavens provides a thrilling look at how infrared astronomy is aiding the search for exoplanets and extraterrestrial life, and transforming our understanding of the history and evolution of our universe.

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520045958

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space

Seeing Things Their Way

Seeing Things Their Way
Author: Alister Chapman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Intellectual life
ISBN: 9780268022983

Editors and contributors urge intellectual historians to explore the religious dimensions of ideas and commend the methods of intellectual history to historians of religion.