I See Shapes

Children see that people come in many different shapes, and then are asked to pick which shape they are.

Simple text and illustrations help young readers to recognize shapes.

Basic shapes--triangles, circles, squares, rectangles--suggest common objects for a birthday party.

Look around you. What shapes do you see? Can you find circles, triangles, and squares? How about cones, cubes, and spheres? In this book you will join Mrs. Fox’s class as they learn about shapes, sizes, and colors on a local playground. After your adventure, follow the class back to school to create beautiful art projects using the shapes you found! Concepts include flat and three-dimensional shapes, and an interactive art connection. Have fun searching for shapes everywhere!

'Grey Shapes' is a supernatural-mystery novel written by E. C. Vivian. The story follows a detective stumbling upon a vicious crime scene that eventually led him to an investigation where the main suspect is an inhuman being.

Outlines a health and fitness program designed especially for plus-size men and women, presenting a simple eating plan and fitness regimen to encourage smarter food choices and an overall healthier lifestyle.

In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human. Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject. Sharing a root with anesthesia ("no sensation"), synesthesia means "joined sensation," whereby a voice, for example, is not only heard but also seen, felt, or tasted. The trait is involuntary, hereditary, and fairly common. It stayed a scientific mystery for two centuries until Cytowic's original experiments led to a neurological explanation—and to a new concept of brain organization that accentuates emotion over reason. That chicken dinner two decades ago led Cytowic to explore a deeper reality that, he argues, exists in everyone but is often just below the surface of awareness (which is why finding meaning in our lives can be elusive). In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, far from being a mere curiosity, illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what is means to be human—a view that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotional knowledge, and self-understanding. This 2003 edition features a new afterword.