Blind Beauty
Title | Blind Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | K. M. Peyton |
Publisher | Scholastic UK |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-09-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1407154680 |
Buffoon doesn't look like much of a race horse. He's awkward and ugly. But Tess senses something special in him. Together, the unloved horse and the stubborn girl will forge a bond that will take them further than anyone could have imagined... An touching tale of how friendship can prevail when the odds are stacked against you.
A Color Blind Beauty
Title | A Color Blind Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | The Families |
Publisher | Dorrance Publishing |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2021-06-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1637642512 |
A Color Blind Beauty By: The Families What would be of humanity if she does not know flowers whilst love remains the answer to our living world of understanding? A Color Blind Beauty is a romance novel that profoundly speaks of why our difference should be our strength as it allows us a brilliant perception towards race, religion, gender equality, politics, and nationality. Mr. Wade was born to an Irish American mother and African father. His wellness signifies love above hate, and he is lucky to have found a colorblind beauty for a sweetheart. She works as an event organizer with the State Government of Illinois, where she hails from, while he starts as an unknown writer. It is the supreme power of love against all forms of challenge. Their love story will remind the world and her people about the importance of such unions. Take the journey and unfold the mystery of this wonderful novel.
The Blind Beauty
Title | The Blind Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Pasternak's lost work, an unfinished play, come to light nine years after his death.
Blindspot
Title | Blindspot PDF eBook |
Author | Mahzarin R. Banaji |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-08-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0345528433 |
“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington Post I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. “Blindspot” is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups—without our awareness or conscious control—shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential. In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot. The title’s “good people” are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can adapt beliefs and behavior and “outsmart the machine” in our heads so we can be fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our own minds. Brilliant, authoritative, and utterly accessible, Blindspot is a book that will challenge and change readers for years to come. Praise for Blindspot “Conversational . . . easy to read, and best of all, it has the potential, at least, to change the way you think about yourself.”—Leonard Mlodinow, The New York Review of Books “Banaji and Greenwald deserve a major award for writing such a lively and engaging book that conveys an important message: Mental processes that we are not aware of can affect what we think and what we do. Blindspot is one of the most illuminating books ever written on this topic.”—Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., distinguished professor, University of California, Irvine; past president, Association for Psychological Science; author of Eyewitness Testimony
Thriving Blind
Title | Thriving Blind PDF eBook |
Author | Kristin Smedley |
Publisher | Thriving Publications |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781732066403 |
Stories of blind people who use creativity and determination to live the life of their dreams. Also includes lists of resources for advocacy, rehabilitation, recreation, and support systems for the blind.
Unattainable Bride Russia
Title | Unattainable Bride Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Rutten |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2010-03-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0810126567 |
Throughout the twentieth century and continuing today, personifications of Russia as a bride occur in a wide range of Russian texts and visual representations, from literature and political and philosophical treatises to cartoons and tattoos. Invariably, this metaphor functions in the context of a political gender allegory, which represents the relationships between Russia, the intelligentsia, and the Russian state, as a competition of two male suitors for the former’s love. In Unattainable Bride Russia, Ellen Rutten focuses on the metaphorical role the intelligentsia plays as Russia’s rejected or ineffectual suitor. Rutten finds that this metaphor, which she covers from its prehistory in folklore to present-day pop culture references to Vladimir Putin, is still powerful, but has generated scarce scholarly consideration. Unattainable Bride Russia locates the cultural thread and places the political metaphor in a broad contemporary and social context, thus paying it the attention to which it is entitled as one of Russia’s modern cultural myths.
The Blind Photographer
Title | The Blind Photographer PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Rothenstein |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1616895640 |
The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images? The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness is itself a kind of seeing, and that those who can see are often blind to the strangeness and beauty of the world around them. As the blind photographer Evgen Bavcar writes, "Photography must belong to the blind, who in their daily existence have learned to become the masters of camera obscura." Through the photographs of more than fifty blind or partially sighted people from around the world, this exhilarating book—the first to explore this phenomenon in all its vibrancy and diversity—will make you see differently.