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"Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists--from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...
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English
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"Look and look again...at the sense which lets us see: Sight! Award-winning authors and artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv achieve a remarkable fusion of a far-reaching scientific and historical exploration of the phenomenon of sight with a philosophic reflection on its nature. A stunning sequence of rich infographics provoke the reader to look...learn...and think"--
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North Light Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Talent, schmalent! Drawing is a skill that you can learn, just like tying your shoe or riding a bike. And this is just the book to show you how through bite-size lessons that will have you seeing like an artist and drawing confidently right away. -- adapted from back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discover secret math and science tricks to creating art! This title introduces young readers to the sciences, with a creative twist. Math and science educational pages are interspersed with cool optical illusion activities that offer practical applications of the information students learn in class. All activities include how-to photos, easy instructions, and clear explanations. Reinforce Common Core Standards in reading, math, and science, while...
14) Color zoo
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
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Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.
15) This is a ball
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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"In this humorous parody of a concept book for young children, words and pictures don't match, inviting contrary responses from readers"--
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Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
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English
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"A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page--a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"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,...
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