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2) The eye book
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Series
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English
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A boy and rabbit both have two eyes that see all kinds of things, from blue and red to a bird and a bed.
6) Glasses
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction 'biography' of glasses, an everyday object that has become ubiquitous, starting with the discovery of the magnifying properties of glass through the development of the eye chart, plastic lenses, and contact lenses"--
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a world in which words have colors and sounds have taste. Vladimir Nabokov described this neurological phenomenon in his autobiography. It helped inspire David Hockney's sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Arthur Rimbaud wrote a sonnet about it. Richard Feynman experienced it while formulating the quantum theory that won him a Nobel Prize." "Sometimes described as a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when one of the five senses is aroused,...
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Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
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English
Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
When Paula D'Arcy lost her husband and baby in a car crash, she began an inner search for a faith that was stronger than fear. In Gift of the Red Bird she shares her remarkable spiritual adventure: Paula literally journeyed alone into the wilderness for three days, allowing the Creator to speak through that creation. As she surrendered to the power of God alone, a red bird appeared and, without words, began to teach ...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This video presents a comprehensive range of visual behaviors, grouped into self-contained Developmental Sequence Clusters, which demonstrate how skills at each level lead to those at the next. Major topics include: reflexive patterns (pupillary reactions, doll's eye responses, and eyelid reflexes), and voluntary movements of localization (visual approach), fixation (visual grasp), ocular pursuit (visual manipulation), and gaze shift (visual release)....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate desperate to finish her dissertation, the novel begins when Liz's boyfriend abruptly ditches her, rendering Liz homeless and reduced to couch-surfing at best friend Petra's tiny Manhattan studio apartment. Trying to find an affordable living space, she stumbles across a Craigslist posting that will change her life: a room with a view in a pre-war Greenwich Village apartment. The rent is a pittance,...
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