Author: Philip Core
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN: 9780136424550
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Original Eye
Author: Philip Core
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN: 9780136424550
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
ISBN: 9780136424550
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Eye Test
Author: Chris Jones
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1538730685
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In a world increasingly ruled by numbers and algorithms, award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes a compelling case for a more personal approach to analytical thinking. THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem-solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element—for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he’s learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers, astrophysicists, and detectives in the world. There are lessons in their mastery. Of course, there is a place for numbers in decision-making. No baseball player should be judged by his jawline. But the analytics revolution sparked by Michael Lewis’s Moneyball now threatens to replace one kind of absurdity with another. We have developed a blind faith in the machine, the way a driver overly reliant on his GPS might be led off the edge of a cliff. Not all statistical analysis is sound. Algorithms aren’t infallible, and spreadsheets aren’t testaments. Trust in them too much, and they risk becoming instruments of destruction rather than understanding. Worse, data’s supremacy in our daily lives has led to a dangerous strain of anti-expertise: the belief that every problem is a math problem, and anyone given access to the right information will find the right answer. That taste doesn’t matter, experience doesn’t matter, creativity doesn’t matter. That we can’t believe our eyes, no matter how much they’ve seen. THE EYE TEST serves as a reminder that if beauty is less of a virtue in the age of analytics, a good eye still is. This book is a celebration of our greatest beholders—and an absorbing, inspiring guide for how you might become one, too.
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1538730685
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In a world increasingly ruled by numbers and algorithms, award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes a compelling case for a more personal approach to analytical thinking. THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem-solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element—for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he’s learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers, astrophysicists, and detectives in the world. There are lessons in their mastery. Of course, there is a place for numbers in decision-making. No baseball player should be judged by his jawline. But the analytics revolution sparked by Michael Lewis’s Moneyball now threatens to replace one kind of absurdity with another. We have developed a blind faith in the machine, the way a driver overly reliant on his GPS might be led off the edge of a cliff. Not all statistical analysis is sound. Algorithms aren’t infallible, and spreadsheets aren’t testaments. Trust in them too much, and they risk becoming instruments of destruction rather than understanding. Worse, data’s supremacy in our daily lives has led to a dangerous strain of anti-expertise: the belief that every problem is a math problem, and anyone given access to the right information will find the right answer. That taste doesn’t matter, experience doesn’t matter, creativity doesn’t matter. That we can’t believe our eyes, no matter how much they’ve seen. THE EYE TEST serves as a reminder that if beauty is less of a virtue in the age of analytics, a good eye still is. This book is a celebration of our greatest beholders—and an absorbing, inspiring guide for how you might become one, too.
The Eye Book
Author: Theo. LeSieg
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375800336
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Our eyes see flies. Our eyes see ants. Sometimes they see pink underpants. Oh, say can you see? Dr. Seuss’s hilarious ode to eyes gives little ones a whole new appreciation for all the wonderful things to be seen!
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375800336
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Our eyes see flies. Our eyes see ants. Sometimes they see pink underpants. Oh, say can you see? Dr. Seuss’s hilarious ode to eyes gives little ones a whole new appreciation for all the wonderful things to be seen!
Story of the Eye
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141913673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141913673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
Author: Susan Denham Wade
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750992948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Eyes were one of the very first body parts to evolve more than 500 million years ago, and their structure has remained virtually unchanged through most of evolutionary history. But eyes alone were never enough for Homo sapiens. From the mastery of fire a million years ago to the smartphone today, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, smartphones – these tools didn't just add to our visual repertoire, they shaped cultures around the world and made us who we are. Drawing on sources from anthropology to zoology, neuroscience to Netflix, As Far As the Eye Can See traces the history of seeing from the first evolutionary stirrings of sight and discovers that each time we changed how or what we see, we changed ourselves and the world around us. Along the way, it finds, sight slowly eclipsed our other senses. Are we now at 'peak seeing', the author asks. Can our eyes keep up with technology? Have we gone as far as the eye can see?
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750992948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Eyes were one of the very first body parts to evolve more than 500 million years ago, and their structure has remained virtually unchanged through most of evolutionary history. But eyes alone were never enough for Homo sapiens. From the mastery of fire a million years ago to the smartphone today, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, smartphones – these tools didn't just add to our visual repertoire, they shaped cultures around the world and made us who we are. Drawing on sources from anthropology to zoology, neuroscience to Netflix, As Far As the Eye Can See traces the history of seeing from the first evolutionary stirrings of sight and discovers that each time we changed how or what we see, we changed ourselves and the world around us. Along the way, it finds, sight slowly eclipsed our other senses. Are we now at 'peak seeing', the author asks. Can our eyes keep up with technology? Have we gone as far as the eye can see?
Allan Pinkerton
Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822549239
Category : Detectives
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Original Private Eye.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822549239
Category : Detectives
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Original Private Eye.
Mudd in Your Eye
Author: Jerry Oltion
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN: 9780671002602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Captain Kirk is assigned to investigate when peace breaks out between two planets that have been at war for over 12,000 years, and he is very suspicious when he learns that the architect of the peace treaty is a notorious con artist.
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN: 9780671002602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Captain Kirk is assigned to investigate when peace breaks out between two planets that have been at war for over 12,000 years, and he is very suspicious when he learns that the architect of the peace treaty is a notorious con artist.
Literature and Evil
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Eye of the Tempest
Author: Nicole Peeler
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316201243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Nothing says "home" like being attacked by humans with very large guns, as Jane and Anyan discover when they arrive in Rockabill. These are professionals, brought into kill, and they bring Anyan down before either Jane or the barghest can react. Seeing Anyan fall awakens a terrible power within Jane, and she nearly destroys herself taking out their attackers. Jane wakes, weeks later, to discover that she's not the only thing that's been stirring. Something underneath Rockabill is coming to life: something ancient, something powerful, and something that just might destroy the world. Jane and her friends must act, striking out on a quest that only Jane can finish. For whatever lurks beneath the Old Sow must be stopped. . .and Jane's just the halfling for the job.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316201243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Nothing says "home" like being attacked by humans with very large guns, as Jane and Anyan discover when they arrive in Rockabill. These are professionals, brought into kill, and they bring Anyan down before either Jane or the barghest can react. Seeing Anyan fall awakens a terrible power within Jane, and she nearly destroys herself taking out their attackers. Jane wakes, weeks later, to discover that she's not the only thing that's been stirring. Something underneath Rockabill is coming to life: something ancient, something powerful, and something that just might destroy the world. Jane and her friends must act, striking out on a quest that only Jane can finish. For whatever lurks beneath the Old Sow must be stopped. . .and Jane's just the halfling for the job.
Pumpkin Eye
Author: Denise Fleming
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805076356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Simple rhymes describe the sights, sounds, and smells of Halloween.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805076356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Simple rhymes describe the sights, sounds, and smells of Halloween.