Blindness

Blindness
Author: José Saramago
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780547537597

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A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master.”—Boston Globe A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit. "This is a an important book, one that is unafraid to face all of the horror of the century."—Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

Willful Blindness

Willful Blindness
Author: Margaret Heffernan
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780802777959

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“With deft prose and page after page of keen insights, Heffernan shows why we close our eyes to facts that threaten our families, our livelihood, and our self-image--and, even better, she points the way out of the darkness.” --Daniel H. Pink In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's Willful Blindness is a tour de force on human behavior that will open your eyes. Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and say, How could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers, and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures-even crimes against humanity. We turn a blind eye in order to feel safe, to avoid conflict, to reduce anxiety, and to protect prestige. But greater understanding leads to solutions, and Heffernan shows how-by challenging our biases, encouraging debate, discouraging conformity, and not backing away from difficult or complicated problems-we can be more mindful of what's going on around us and be proactive instead of reactive.

Blindness what it Is what it Does and how to Live with it

Blindness  what it Is  what it Does  and how to Live with it
Author: Thomas J. Carroll
Publsiher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1961
Genre: Blind
ISBN: UOM:39015001653941

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Wilful Blindness How a Network of Narcos Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West

Wilful Blindness  How a Network of Narcos  Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West
Author: Sam Cooper
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 0888903146

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The author offers evidence of covert Chinese government influence in Canadian politics and crime.

Inattentional Blindness

Inattentional Blindness
Author: Arien Mack,Irvin Rock
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0262133393

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Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it. Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no such thing -- that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it. The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised, and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention, and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciousness.

The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment

The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment
Author: Jill Sardegna,Susan Shelly
Publsiher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780816066230

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A comprehensive guide to causes of blindness, information on diseases and treatments available.

Blindness

Blindness
Author: Moshe Barasch
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2001-04-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781136799754

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This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of

Blindness

Blindness
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 12
Release: 1938
Genre: Blindness
ISBN: MINN:31951D03887403E

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