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This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision
and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and
recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual
processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including
attention and mental imagery -- and the relations between vision
and conscious awareness. Each chapter includes a tutorial overview
emphasizing the current state of knowledge and outstanding
theoretical issues in the authors' area of research, along with a
more in-depth report of an illustrative research project in the
same area.
The editors and contributors to this volume are among the most
respected figures in the field of neuropsychology and perception,
making the work presented here a standard-setting text and
reference in that area.
Lure of the Mountains is the first published biography of
accomplished photographer, ornithologist, teacher and 1924 Everest
expedition member Bentley Beetham (1886 - 1963). Written by the
late Michael D. Lowes, a pupil of Beetham's at Barnard Castle
School in County Durham, and with a foreword by Graham Ratcliffe
MBE, the first Briton to have summited Everest from both the North
and South sides, and also a pupil of Barnard Castle School, Lure of
the Mountains charts Beetham's life from childhood in Darlington,
to rock climbing in the Lake District and selection by the Mount
Everest Committee as a member of the infamous and ill-fated 1924
Everest Expedition on which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine
disappeared high on the mountain. Many of Beetham's images,
including those made on the 1924 expedition, were for over 25 years
curated by Michael Lowes and are reproduced in this book with the
kind permission of the Bentley Beetham Trust and Durham University.
His images of Tibet are 'an important historical record of Tibetan
culture and a way of life that in modern times has rapidly begun to
disappear'. Beetham was a highly skilled rock climber and a pioneer
of new routes in the Borrowdale Valley, where he established such
notable climbs as Little Chamonix on Shepherd's Crag, and Corvus on
Raven Crag. The author, like many other pupils Beetham inspired,
was introduced to climbing by his teacher in the Lake District on
club trips, and over the years he became a valuable source of
information and expert on Beetham's life and work.
On the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what
remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Following the
tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer's Into
Thin Air becoming an international bestseller. But has the whole
story been told? A Day to Die For reveals the full, startling facts
that led to the tragedy. Graham Ratcliffe, the first British
climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice, was a
first-hand witness, having spent the night on Everest's South Col
at 26,000 ft, sheltering from the deadly storm. For years, he has
shouldered a burden of guilt, feeling that he and his teammates
could have saved lives that fateful night. His quest for answers
has led to discoveries so important to an understanding of the
disaster that he now questions why these facts were not made public
sooner. History is dotted with high-profile disasters that both
horrify and capture the attention of the public, but very rarely is
our view of them revised to such devastating effect.
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