A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

Author: Susan Denham Wade

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0750992948

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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?

More than the Eye Can See
More than the Eye Can See

Author: Helen Lavinia Underwood

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1483671895

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More Than The Eye Can See is about two young women, one sighted and one blind, living together as roommates in a small Southern college during the "peaches and cream" fifties. The sighted student reluctantly becomes reader to her blind roommate. A letter dated June 23, 1957 -- the author's wedding day -- turns up in a box of keepsakes in 2012. Written by the blind roommate as a paean to their college life together, the author realizes she has never read the letter and certainly never responded to it. The memoir becomes the long-overdue response. Poignant memories and hilarious escapades characterize the narrative.

Far as the Eye Can See
Far as the Eye Can See

Author: Robert Bausch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1620402610

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Bobby Hale is a Union veteran several times over. After the war, he sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. As he stumbles around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets-settlers and native people-and the violent history he both participates in and witnesses. Far as the Eye Can See is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people-a white man and a mixed-race woman-in the midst of such majesty and violence can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity. Robert Bausch is the distinguished author of a body of work that is lively and varied, but linked by a thoughtfully complicated masculinity and an uncommon empathy. The unique voice of Bobby Hale manages to evoke both Cormac McCarthy and Mark Twain, guiding readers into Indian country and the Plains Wars in a manner both historically true and contemporarily relevant, as thoughts of race and war occupy the national psyche.

More Than the Eye Can See
More Than the Eye Can See

Author: Betty Raymond Gubler

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1098051637

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At the end of her junior year of college, Miranda, a music major, meets David, an accomplished artist, at a wedding reception. They are immediately attracted to each other and begin dating. One thing that attracts Miranda to David, after he shows her his art gallery, is his explanation that before he can paint a picture, he seeks to discover the spirit and the truth of what he wants to paint in order to reveal how all things are spiritually connected by love. After Miranda graduates from college, they marry and have three daughters. During the course of their marriage, they have to deal with the loss of a long-desired son who died at birth, a handicapped granddaughter named Sarah, and an art student, Ashley, who wants to become romantically involved with David. Courtney, Sarah's younger sister, has problems in school because she is teased about her sister Sarah being handicapped. Because of her low self-esteem, Courtney becomes pregnant, but her boyfriend, who no longer cares for her, insists she have an abortion. David, who had a very special relationship with Sarah, after her death, struggles to find the real Sarah. After much pondering, he paints a picture of Sarah as a beautiful young girl presenting flowers to Jesus. Miranda is afraid now David is including Jesus in his paintings that he has reached the height of his career and that she will soon lose him. Learn how Miranda and David deal with these challenging situations in this inspiring novel, and what the meaning of "More than the Eye Can See" represents.

More Than The Eye Can See: Memoirs Of Gopinath Pillai
More Than The Eye Can See: Memoirs Of Gopinath Pillai

Author: Gopinath Pillai

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2022-08-24

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 981125575X

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More Than The Eye Can See tells the story of Gopinath Pillai, a Singaporean businessman and diplomat who served as Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to Iran (1989-2008) and High Commissioner to Pakistan (1994-2001). Alongside working with prominent members of Singapore's pioneering generation to strengthen the country's manufacturing profile and international trade during the Cold War, he broke into liberalising India as a trailblazing entrepreneur and contributed to the nation's public life as the first Chairman of NTUC Fairprice and Founder Chairman of the Institute of South Asian Studies.A self-described 'Jack of All Trades', Gopi's memoirs frame episodes of personal struggle against milestones in the progress of the nation. Born in Singapore to Malayalee parents in 1937, Gopi spent his early childhood in India throughout the Japanese Occupation, where he witnessed the Communist Movement in Kerala first-hand. When he returned to Singapore in 1946, Gopi grew up in a multi-racial society taking its fledgling steps as a democracy. His career took him all over — to Thailand and Malaysia as an economist and journalist and the Middle East and America as a manager — reflecting Singapore's early industrialisation and the pursuit of its values and interests abroad and at home.Co-written with John Vater, More Than The Eye Can See offers a panorama of a man and his century.

Visual Intelligence
Visual Intelligence

Author: Donald D Hoffman

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000-02-22

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780393319675

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In an informal style replete with illustrations, Hoffman presents the compelling scientific evidence for vision's constructive powers unveiling a grammar of vision--a set of rules that govern our perception of line, color, form, depth, and motion. 150 illustrations, 20 in color.

More Than Meets the Eye
More Than Meets the Eye

Author: Georgina Kleege

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0190604360

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More Than Meets the Eye seeks to dismantle traditional understandings of blindness through scrutiny of philosophical speculation, scientific case studies, literary depictions, and museum access programs for the blind. It introduces blind and visually impaired artists whose work has shattered stereotypes and opened up new aesthetic possibilities for everyone.

Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See

Author: Bill Finch

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0807838098

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Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But logging, suppression of fire, destruction by landowners, and a complex web of other factors reduced those forests so that longleaf is now found only on 3 million acres. Fortunately, the stately tree is enjoying a resurgence of interest, and longleaf forests are once again spreading across the South. Blending a compelling narrative by writers Bill Finch, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall with Beth Maynor Young's breathtaking photography, Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See invites readers to experience the astounding beauty and significance of the majestic longleaf ecosystem. The authors explore the interactions of longleaf with other species, the development of longleaf forests prior to human contact, and the influence of the longleaf on southern culture, as well as ongoing efforts to restore these forests. Part natural history, part conservation advocacy, and part cultural exploration, this book highlights the special nature of longleaf forests and proposes ways to conserve and expand them.

Touch the Top of the World
Touch the Top of the World

Author: Erik Weihenmayer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-03-26

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780452282940

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The incredible bestselling book from the author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break through the barriers of blindness: the mother who prayed for the miracle that would restore her son's sight and the father who encouraged him to strive for that distant mountaintop. And he tells the story of his dream to climb the world's Seven Summits, and how he is turning that dream into astonishing reality (something fewer than a hundred mountaineers have done). From the snow-capped summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge, Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream in the face of impossible odds. It is about finding the courage to reach for that ultimate summit, and transforming your life into something truly miraculous. "An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine."—Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air

More Than Meets the Eye
More Than Meets the Eye

Author: Richard Swenson

Publisher: Tyndale House

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1617472123

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Nature reveals a God who constantly nurtures and sustains His creation—including our own bodies—in ways that we can scarcely comprehend. Discover the wonders of creation and how they reveal a majestic God whose mastery of detail is evident everywhere. Learn to see yourself as God sees you: a treasured creation with whom He desires intimate relationship. Indexed for easy reference