With the help of 150 illustrations, Donald Hoffman unveils the rules that govern our visual experience and explores what this means in the arts and technology.

This textbook on vision reflects the integrated computational approach of modern research scientists, combining psychological, computational and neuroscientific perspectives. It covers topics from early neural processing of image structure in the retina to high-level visual attention and awareness.

Focusing on the basic phenomena of visual perception, this edition features over 30 additional illustrations, together with a clear design and large format. It is suitable for both student and general reader alike.

Provides details about building organizations that prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond, and also about visionary companies. This book contains specific examples and is organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at various levels.

We recognize the artistry of Mona Lisa's smile, but is there an underlying science? This study explains how vision works. It tells us how great painters fool the brain: why Mona Lisa's smile seems so mysterious, Monet's Poppy Field appears to sway in the breeze, and Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie blinks like the lights of Times Square.

Crary aims to provide a different perspective on the visual culture of the 19th century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This is an analysis of the historical formation of the observer and an account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle .

A classic study of image-making, this text seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? Professor Gombrich's exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him to examine, question and re-evaluate old and new ideas.

Beginning with the seemingly simple act of seeing red, the fact of a conscious sensation, this book builds toward an explanation of why consciousness matters, why it makes evolutionary sense. It develops a theory of how sensations are created, suggesting that consciousness developed from the 'privatising' of sensation and experience.

This pragmatic guide shows how to create an organization of learners. The stories in this book show that businesses, schools, agencies and even communities can undo their learning disabilities and achieve superior performance.

If Barack Obama is successful in his quest to become President of the United States, he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world. This book discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and how the ideals of its democracy can be renewed.

A spiritual allegory that explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

This collection of essays by interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy.

The most amazing and comprehensive collection of optical illusions ever assembled. Includes 300 different illusions, most of them never before published.

An introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of vision. The book introduces the reader to the anatomy of the eye and visual cortex and then proceeds to discuss image and representation, face recognition, printed word recognition, visual sematic memory and visual attention and perception.

First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia - where

New, larger format -- even easier to read! -- edition of this classic self-help health title. Still includes the pull out chart.

In The Quest for Consciousness Christof Koch, one of the leading researchers in the emerging science of consciousness, explores the biological basis of the subjective mind in animals and people.