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English
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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
MITP Verlags GmbH & Co. KG
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
Deutsch
Description
Wie wir sehen, wahrnehmen und denken Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung verstehen Die Wirkung von Bildern reflektieren und begreifen Welche Fotos beeindruckend gut sind und warum Wie kommt es, dass Ihnen ein bestimmtes Foto besonders gut gefällt? Welche psychologischen Mechanismen wirken dabei im Hintergrund? Wieso erscheinen manche Fotos lebendig und wie wird dem Gehirn dieser Eindruck vermittelt? Und wenn eine Bildkomposition Ihre Erwartungen enttäuscht,...
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Publisher
A K Peters/CRC Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (540 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book provides an introduction to human visual perception suitable for readers studying or working in the fields of computer graphics and visualization, cognitive science, and visual neuroscience. It focuses on how computer graphics images are generated, rather than solely on the organization of the visual system itself; therefore, the text pro.
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Publisher
O'Reilly
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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"This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world's most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. Gamestorming is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity while bringing more structure and clarity to the workplace"...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we’ve ignored the
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Morgan Kaufmann
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
3rd [ed.].
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information. The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by the way information is presented. It is essential that visual data be designed in such a way that key information and important...
10) Visions of heat
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Series
Psy-Changeling series volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Psychic Faith NightStar, plagued by visions of forbidden pleasure, finds herself the prey of changeling Vaughn D'Angelo, part man, part jaguar, who is determined to claim her as his own, while her people, needing her gift for their own evil purposes, strive to keep them apart.
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English
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The greatly revised and expanded edition of The Elements of Photography is a new kind of textbook for a new generation of photographers. Moving far beyond the usual technical manual, Angela Faris Belt dives deep into merging technique and vision, allowing you to master craft while adding meaning to your images. Here you'll really learn to see photographically, expand your creative and conceptual use of apertures and shutter speeds, and choose the...
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (5 hr., 17 min.))
Language
English
Description
Have you ever felt you're not getting through to the person you're talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You're not alone. Most of us assume that other people see us as we see ourselves, and that they see us as we truly are. But neither is true. Our everyday interactions are colored by subtle biases that distort how others see us-and also shape our perceptions of them. You can learn to clarify the message you're sending once you understand...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 online resource
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English
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"The topics of self-awareness and elevating consciousness are subjects of perennial interest. That is especially true in the present times. We are in the midst of a fundamental transition; over the last few years, we have been experiencing multiple awakenings: the "me too" movement, the acknowledgment of systemic racism, the need to rethink capitalism, the elevation of the feminine, the existential threat of climate change, the rapid erosion of our...
16) Olive's ocean
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English
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On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
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English
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Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training, Second Edition develops your critical and expert listening skills, enabling you to listen to audio like an award-winning engineer. Featuring an accessible writing style, this new edition includes information on objective measurements of sound, technical descriptions of signal processing, and their relationships to subjective impressions of sound. It also includes information on hearing...
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Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : color illustrations
Language
English
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To achieve the complex task of interpreting what we see, our brains rely on statistical regularities and patterns in visual data. Knowledge of these regularities can also be considerably useful in visual computing disciplines, such as computer vision, computer graphics, and image processing. The field of natural image statistics studies the regularities to exploit their potential and better understand human vision. With numerous color figures throughout,...
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English
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Her despicable husband left her for a lingerie model who's barely more than a teenager, and her kids are busy with their own lives. But before Miriam Elizabeth Swanson can work herself up into a true snit about it all, her newest tenant, Liz, arrives from Birmingham with plenty of troubles of her own. Then Miriam meets a man named Harrison, who makes her laugh, makes her cry, and makes her feel like a brand-new woman.
It's almost too much
...20) Engleby: a novel
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English
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Meet Mike Engleby, a second-year student at university. Despite the fact that Mike is obviously intelligent, and involved in many clubs, it is clear that something about Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland, and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved?
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