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John Manson, Nancy Mattson, David M. Miller, Rosemary Norman, Ruth O'Callaghau
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R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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The Wisdom of the Eye is a survey of the major concepts underlying
many of the basic sciences related to the human eye and visual
brain in one volume, using anecdotes and a minimum of highly
technical language to emphasize the important points. This book
presents an up-to-date treatment on how the eye and visual system
work to help us see, interpret what we see, and communicate what we
feel. It also examines how this description of the visual system
teaches us more about ourselves.
Key Features
* Written in a user-friendly style, absent of jargon
* Humanizes vision research using anecdotes
* Uses many original illustrations and examples to demonstrate
concepts
* Provides a synthesis of many disciplines including ophthalmology,
optometry, and basic science
* Presents the visual system consistently in the context of its
survival advantages
* Covers a wide variety of topics including infant vision, adult
retinal image, animal vision, eye injuries, refractive areas, the
eye as a transmitter and receiver of information, optical
illusions, color, visual awareness, and more
"The word 'spiritual' is, in this volume, ripped away from the New
Age and returned to its sources in Kabbalah and early Christian
(gnostic) writings. But it carries with it the world as we have it
now. A heap of horrors, remnants, a sense of the feminine under
assault, and the drive to love. Therefore the dimensions are
multiple and unstable. To be human is to be a spiritual entity more
aligned with nature than with culture, and therefore to rebel. I am
happy to have and to hold this book." -Fanny Howe, on Series 1-5 of
Spiritual Letters.
Comprising work from the early 1970s onwards, Reassembling Still is
by far the largest and most comprehensive collection of David
Miller's poetry, and includes all of his poetry that he wishes to
keep, with the exceptions of the ongoing Spiritual Letters project
and his visual poems.
This anthology highlights the radical contribution to narrative
fiction made in the past 40-odd years by poets in the UK and North
America. Their attention to the materiality of language,
discontinuous form, constructivism and sheer playfulness show that
there are countless possibilities for narrative prose. The 28 poets
whose narrative prose writing is sampled here are: Guy Birchard,
Paul Buck, Vahni Capildeo, Johan de Wit, Lawrence Fixel, Giles
Goodland, Barbara Guest, Paul Haines, Lee Harwood, Lyn Hejinian,
Fanny Howe, Robert Lax, John Levy, Tom Lowenstein, Daphne Marlatt,
Brian Marley, Bernadette Mayer, David Miller, bpNichol, Will
Petersen, Kristin Prevallet, David Rattray, Ian Robinson, Robert
Sheppard, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Stephen Watts, M J
Weller.
Thirteen experts here explore the relationship between the Mosaic
law and early Christian ethics, examining early Christian
appropriation of the Torah and looking at ways in which the law
continued to serve as an ethical reference point for
Christ-believers - regardless of whether they thought Torah
observance was essential or not. These noteworthy essays compare
differences in interpretation and application of the law between
Christians and non-Christian Jews, investigate ways in which
Torah-inspired ethical practices helped Christ-believing
communities articulate their distinct identities and social
responsibilities, and look at how presentations of the law in early
Christian literature might inform contemporary Christian social and
ethical practices. Posing a unified set of questions to a diverse
range of texts, Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity will
stimulate new thinking about a complex phenomenon commonly
overlooked by scholars and church leaders alike.
Water at the Surface of the Earth: An Introduction to Ecosystem
Hydrodynamics provides an introduction to the ways in which
biological, physical, cultural, and urban systems at the surface of
the earth operate, with a particular focus on the hydrodynamics of
ecosystems, i.e., water and its association with other forms of
matter, including pollutants, and with several forms of energy. The
chapter sequence in this book follows the downward progress of
water from the lower atmosphere, through ecosystems at the earth's
surface, through the soil and mantle rock, to the ""waters under
the earth."" In other words, the book begins with input of water to
ecosystems, then describes how it is processed in these systems,
and ends with the liquid water yield from them. The book first
discusses storms in the atmosphere. These are systems that convert
inflows of water vapor into outflows of raindrops and snowflakes
that are precipitated to the underlying surface. This is followed
by separate chapters on how water is delivered from the atmosphere
to surface ecosystems; water budgets at the surface and in the
soil; evaporation from these systems back to the atmosphere; water
in the local air and rocks; and horizontal movement of water
transformed by ecosystems where the preceding storages and fluxes
were located.
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