Author: Hannah Fairbairn
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398092826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book was first projected in 2004, when Author Hannah Fairbairn was teaching interpersonal skills at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts. The experiences of her adult students—and her own experience of sight lost—convinced her that everyone losing vision needs access to good information about the process of adjustment to losing sight and practical ways to use assertive speech. When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes is intended for anyone going through vision loss, their friends, and families. It will inform readers how to get expert professional help, face the trauma of loss, and navigate the world using speech more than sight. Each of the twelve chapters in the book contain many short sections and bullet-point lists, intended to facilitate access to the right information. It begins where you begin—at the doctor’s office or the hospital. Since vision loss takes many forms, there are suggestions for questions you might ask to get a clear diagnosis and the best treatment. Part One also has a description of legal blindness and possible prevention, advice about your job, and tips for life at home. Part Two is about believing in yourself as you deal with the loss, the anger, and the fear before you come up for air and consider training. Parts Three and Four describe using assertive speech and action in all kinds of settings as your independence and confidence increase. Part Five gives detailed information about everything from dating, and caring for babies to senior living, volunteering, and retaining your job. It is hoped that by reading and trying out the suggestions, the reader will recover full confidence, become a positive, assertive communicator, and lead a satisfying life. Because vision loss happens mostly in older years, the book is written with seniors particularly in mind. Professionals will also find it to be a useful resource for their patients.
When You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Author: Hannah Fairbairn
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398092826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book was first projected in 2004, when Author Hannah Fairbairn was teaching interpersonal skills at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts. The experiences of her adult students—and her own experience of sight lost—convinced her that everyone losing vision needs access to good information about the process of adjustment to losing sight and practical ways to use assertive speech. When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes is intended for anyone going through vision loss, their friends, and families. It will inform readers how to get expert professional help, face the trauma of loss, and navigate the world using speech more than sight. Each of the twelve chapters in the book contain many short sections and bullet-point lists, intended to facilitate access to the right information. It begins where you begin—at the doctor’s office or the hospital. Since vision loss takes many forms, there are suggestions for questions you might ask to get a clear diagnosis and the best treatment. Part One also has a description of legal blindness and possible prevention, advice about your job, and tips for life at home. Part Two is about believing in yourself as you deal with the loss, the anger, and the fear before you come up for air and consider training. Parts Three and Four describe using assertive speech and action in all kinds of settings as your independence and confidence increase. Part Five gives detailed information about everything from dating, and caring for babies to senior living, volunteering, and retaining your job. It is hoped that by reading and trying out the suggestions, the reader will recover full confidence, become a positive, assertive communicator, and lead a satisfying life. Because vision loss happens mostly in older years, the book is written with seniors particularly in mind. Professionals will also find it to be a useful resource for their patients.
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398092826
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This book was first projected in 2004, when Author Hannah Fairbairn was teaching interpersonal skills at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Massachusetts. The experiences of her adult students—and her own experience of sight lost—convinced her that everyone losing vision needs access to good information about the process of adjustment to losing sight and practical ways to use assertive speech. When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes is intended for anyone going through vision loss, their friends, and families. It will inform readers how to get expert professional help, face the trauma of loss, and navigate the world using speech more than sight. Each of the twelve chapters in the book contain many short sections and bullet-point lists, intended to facilitate access to the right information. It begins where you begin—at the doctor’s office or the hospital. Since vision loss takes many forms, there are suggestions for questions you might ask to get a clear diagnosis and the best treatment. Part One also has a description of legal blindness and possible prevention, advice about your job, and tips for life at home. Part Two is about believing in yourself as you deal with the loss, the anger, and the fear before you come up for air and consider training. Parts Three and Four describe using assertive speech and action in all kinds of settings as your independence and confidence increase. Part Five gives detailed information about everything from dating, and caring for babies to senior living, volunteering, and retaining your job. It is hoped that by reading and trying out the suggestions, the reader will recover full confidence, become a positive, assertive communicator, and lead a satisfying life. Because vision loss happens mostly in older years, the book is written with seniors particularly in mind. Professionals will also find it to be a useful resource for their patients.
You Can't Believe Your Eyes
Author: Joan Fleming
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1471902048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Four people were in the room when Richard Rangward was murdered, and a butler was coming and going during the dinner at which he died. However, when each one gave his eyewitness story, there were five different accounts of what had happened. While it is rare that any two people see anything in exactly the same way, it could only be supposed in this case that there were a great many reasons why the witnesses did not wish to tell the whole truth. Strangely enough, old Mr Totterdell, who was rumoured to be blind, seemed to have seen the most clearly ...
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1471902048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Four people were in the room when Richard Rangward was murdered, and a butler was coming and going during the dinner at which he died. However, when each one gave his eyewitness story, there were five different accounts of what had happened. While it is rare that any two people see anything in exactly the same way, it could only be supposed in this case that there were a great many reasons why the witnesses did not wish to tell the whole truth. Strangely enough, old Mr Totterdell, who was rumoured to be blind, seemed to have seen the most clearly ...
Trust Your Eyes
Author: Linwood Barclay
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385669585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen. Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon--but has not--in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered. Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy. And now they are in the crosshairs.
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385669585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen. Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon--but has not--in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered. Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy. And now they are in the crosshairs.
God's Big Idea
Author: RosAnne Corakay Tetz
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828017626
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The author starts with God's plan to create a new world and guides the child through the six days of Creation, and ends up with God's plan for a new earth. In between, children solve many of life's lesser mysteries (do fish sleep?) and think about a few of the greater ones (why am I here?). And every fascinating fact about the world we live in becomes a doorway to big truths about life.
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828017626
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The author starts with God's plan to create a new world and guides the child through the six days of Creation, and ends up with God's plan for a new earth. In between, children solve many of life's lesser mysteries (do fish sleep?) and think about a few of the greater ones (why am I here?). And every fascinating fact about the world we live in becomes a doorway to big truths about life.
You Won't Believe Your Eyes
Author: Mark Thomas McGee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781593932732
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This was the day that engulfed the world in terror! Up from the forbidden depths comes a tidal wave of terror. What was this awesome beast born fifty million years out of time? It claws... it drains blood. Bullets won't kill it! Flames can't hurt it! Nothing can stop it! Body of a Boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing! No girl was safe as long as this HEAD HUNTING THING roamed the land! Human emotions stripped raw! It happens before your horrified eyes! Amazing! Exciting! Terrifying! Thrills! Shock! Suspense! It can and DID happen! Based on authentic facts you're been reading about. The most amazing motion picture of our time! Like nothing your eyes have ever seen before! Uncut! Shown exactly as filmed! We urge you not to panic or bolt from your seat. Don't see it alone!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781593932732
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This was the day that engulfed the world in terror! Up from the forbidden depths comes a tidal wave of terror. What was this awesome beast born fifty million years out of time? It claws... it drains blood. Bullets won't kill it! Flames can't hurt it! Nothing can stop it! Body of a Boy! Mind of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing! No girl was safe as long as this HEAD HUNTING THING roamed the land! Human emotions stripped raw! It happens before your horrified eyes! Amazing! Exciting! Terrifying! Thrills! Shock! Suspense! It can and DID happen! Based on authentic facts you're been reading about. The most amazing motion picture of our time! Like nothing your eyes have ever seen before! Uncut! Shown exactly as filmed! We urge you not to panic or bolt from your seat. Don't see it alone!
John Martin's Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Incredible Visual Illusions
Author: Al Seckel
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781839407710
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Incredible Visual Illusions is the most comprehensive and amazing collection of optical illusions ever assembled, with almost three hundred different artworks. You will be amazed as some images flash and scintillate before your eyes, while others disappear right in front of you. Size and shape can lose their meaning, you'll see motion where there is no motion and the laws of perspective are turned on their heads! You won't believe your eyes!" --
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781839407710
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Incredible Visual Illusions is the most comprehensive and amazing collection of optical illusions ever assembled, with almost three hundred different artworks. You will be amazed as some images flash and scintillate before your eyes, while others disappear right in front of you. Size and shape can lose their meaning, you'll see motion where there is no motion and the laws of perspective are turned on their heads! You won't believe your eyes!" --
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Author: Donald Hoffman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393254704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393254704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.
Don't Close Your Eyes
Author: Carlene Thompson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429909501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Nestled on the shores of Lake Erie, the small town of Port Ariel, Ohio, is a welcome haven for Natalie St. John. Back home for the first time in years, she plans to visit old friends, mend a broken heart, and take a break from her busy veterinarian practice. But her peace is shattered her first night back, when she discovers the murdered body of her friend, Tamara Peyton. Was it a random act of violence...or something personal? The answer becomes clear as Natalie is stalked by the voice of "Tamara," whose terrifying phone calls warn her that she too, is going to die. One by one, the people closest to Tamara are being savagely murdered. But neither Natalie nor Sheriff Nick Meredith recognizes the face of the devious killer who walks among them, hiding behind a well-crafted lie. Now, a murderer's deadly act of vengeance demands one more sacrifice-and Natalie has been chosen to pay the price...
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429909501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Nestled on the shores of Lake Erie, the small town of Port Ariel, Ohio, is a welcome haven for Natalie St. John. Back home for the first time in years, she plans to visit old friends, mend a broken heart, and take a break from her busy veterinarian practice. But her peace is shattered her first night back, when she discovers the murdered body of her friend, Tamara Peyton. Was it a random act of violence...or something personal? The answer becomes clear as Natalie is stalked by the voice of "Tamara," whose terrifying phone calls warn her that she too, is going to die. One by one, the people closest to Tamara are being savagely murdered. But neither Natalie nor Sheriff Nick Meredith recognizes the face of the devious killer who walks among them, hiding behind a well-crafted lie. Now, a murderer's deadly act of vengeance demands one more sacrifice-and Natalie has been chosen to pay the price...
Drowning in Her Eyes
Author: Norma D'amico
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467079650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Drowning In Her Eyes is the story of Lindsey, a selfish and willful, beautiful young woman, who will go to any length, even murder to attain what she wants. She craves money, status, and the “good life” to which she feels she is entitled. From the day Lindsey was born she knew how to manipulate people and when Harry Sanders meets her he believes his good fortune has brought him this gorgeous beauty with the most dazzling blue eyes he as ever seen. All too soon he is caught in her web of deceit and duplicity, and slowly begins to realize his lust for her has changed his life greatly and there is no turning back. Drowning In Her Eyes will take you into a world of evil, suspense, and tragedy.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467079650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Drowning In Her Eyes is the story of Lindsey, a selfish and willful, beautiful young woman, who will go to any length, even murder to attain what she wants. She craves money, status, and the “good life” to which she feels she is entitled. From the day Lindsey was born she knew how to manipulate people and when Harry Sanders meets her he believes his good fortune has brought him this gorgeous beauty with the most dazzling blue eyes he as ever seen. All too soon he is caught in her web of deceit and duplicity, and slowly begins to realize his lust for her has changed his life greatly and there is no turning back. Drowning In Her Eyes will take you into a world of evil, suspense, and tragedy.