Search Results: Perception

Oxford England: Oxford University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. Date inked on free front endpage, DJ price clipped ; Introduces one to the psychology of perception, and raises questions about the way we interpret our environment. Chief among the illusions is a large selection of 'random-dot' stereograms which spring dramatically into 3 dimensions when viewed through the special red/green spectacles provided with the book. ; 8 3/4 x 10 "; 160 pages.

New York: Viking Press, (1991). First American Edition, 1st Printing. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, xx + 293 pages. First printing with number line to "1". Review copy with review slip and publicity sheet laid in. 040414B

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 1978,, 1978. third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages xvi + 155, octavo, hardcover, third printing. Includes black and white illustrations. Includes bibliography. Book and dust jacket in Very Good condition. 022904A Jazz music -- instruction and study, the hand, Phenomenology,

New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing. 293 pp. Fine book (no markings) / Fine dust jacket (price not clipped). A clean, fresh copy.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1990. 1st printing. Hardcover. Good condition in fair d.j./fair. 257 p.

London: Head of Zeus. 2015. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Discreet remainder mark to bottom edge. Illustrated with colour plates. 432 pages. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2003. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 240 pages. This book reveals the difficulty in working out how we make and receive our visual perceptions. It explains how our brain interprets what we see. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Oxford University Press. 1998. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and drawings. x, 280 pages. Accompanied an exhibition of the same name. Provides a non-technical introduction to the science of the human face and to the psychology of face perception with illustrations and demonstrations drwan from science and the art of portraiture. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.

Frankfurt am Main.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag., 1976.. Taschenbuch.. Einband leicht berieben. Schnitt fleckig. Berechtigte Übersetzung von Ch. Mayer. Gebrauchsspuren. ISBN 343602239X.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1998. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. xv, 201 pages. One of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, show how our mind and brain accomplich the amazing feat of constructing our past. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Like New. 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Oxford University Press,. Paperback. 416pp. Aimed at undergraduates, and to particularly bridge the arts/science divide by providing the necessary background in natural science. Deals with light, colour, sound, size distance etc. Some uneven fading and moderate edge and reading wear. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. 1979.

Hartford, CT: George Goodwin & Sons, 1821. Second American Edition. 8vo. 8vo, 460 pages, full sheep, tidal stain at top margin, edgeworn, top joint separating. Alison's wrote a famed study of the History of Europe during the French Revolution. This one deals with the questlons of whatever is beautiful, on sublimity, the emotions of sublimity and beauty, and how they are perceived.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: An October Book, The MIT Press. 1999. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 397 pages. A major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. Focusing on the period from about 1880 to 1905, it examines the connections between the modernisation of subjectivity and the dramatic expansion and industrialisation of visual/auditory culture. It approaches these issues through analysis of works by three modernist painers - Manet, Seurat, and Cezanne. . 1st Edition. Hardback.