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Language
English
Description
"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin-the 'anthropologist from Mars,' as Oliver Sacks dubbed her-transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest 'object visualizers' like Grandin herself,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Includes stories of six individuals who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing "indispensable" senses and faculties: the ability to read, the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation.
10) Black on white
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Black illustrations against a white background depict such objects as an elephant, butterfly, and leaf. On board pages.
Author
Publisher
Brown Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A weathered door handle. A spiraling staircase. The face of a shorn ewe. Hand-painted kitchen containers. Textured lawn furniture. A statue of the Buddha. These objects possess true meaning if framed in just the right way. They can fortify and motivate, and perhaps more importantly, they can tell us much about ourselves. This is the philosophy of Carol Mossa, a photographer who uses the power of the image to heal and to inspire. In Linger Longer:...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Amy Herman has trained experts from many fields how to perceive and communicate better. By showing people how to look closely at images, she helps them hone their 'visual intelligence', a set of skills we all possess but few of us know how to use properly. Whether you want to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward your loved ones, or more alert to the trove of possibilities and threats all around us, this book will show...
16) White on black
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Formats
Description
White illustrations against a black background depict such objects as a horse, baby bottle, and sailboat. On board pages.
19) Zoom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.