Author: Mark Paterson
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: senses, sensibilities, technologies, haptics, touch, affects
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 1845204786
ISBN-13: 9781845204785
Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Not merely immediate skin sensation, touching and feeling are inextricably woven into embodied experiences that are emotional and expressive, personal and interpersonal, and mediated through technologies. Examining the role of touch in art, memory, digital design, developmental psychology, experiences of visual impairment, and tactile therapies, The Senses of Touch demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores
Author: Mark Paterson
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: senses, sensibilities, technologies, haptics, touch, affects
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1845204794
ISBN-13: 9781845204792
Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Not merely immediate skin sensation, touching and feeling are inextricably woven into embodied experiences that are emotional and expressive, personal and interpersonal, and mediated through technologies. Examining the role of touch in art, memory, digital design, developmental psychology, experiences of visual impairment, and tactile therapies, The Senses of Touch demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores
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Publisher: teNeues
Keywords: senses
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 3832792082
ISBN-13: 9783832792084
This startling collection showcases the work of internationally acclaimed fashion and glamour photographer, Frank De Mulder. His work has graced top advertising campaigns and leading magazines. Known for the electric eroticism of his work, De Mulder uses light and contour to create compositions with painterly clarity. Respectful of his subjects, De Mulder captures feminine beauty at its most intimate and beguiling. His sensuality goes far beyond mere titillation--a feast for the mind as well as for the eyes.
Author: Don E. Salier
Publisher: Abingdon Pre
Keywords: senses, come, worship
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0687014581
ISBN-13: 9780687014583
What makes Christian worship both true and relevant to ever-changing human circumstances? How can our gathering about the Scriptures, the Table of the Lord, and the waters of baptism shape and express authentic Christian faith in the world of everyday life? In this book, Don Saliers finds a fresh way of answering these questions by exploring four "senses" of God: awe, delight, truth, and hope. Why are wonderment, surprise, truthfulness, and expectancy so often missing or diminished in Christian liturgy today, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, "high church" or "low church", "traditional" or
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: senses, secret, hundred
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 1998-06-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375701524
ISBN-13: 9780375701528
The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia’s family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia’s sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of i
Author: Kay Woodward
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Keywords: senses, taste
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0836844092
ISBN-13: 9780836844092
There are so many tasty things in the world - some are sweet, some are salty; some are sour and some are bitter. Find out how your sense of taste allows you to try out all these incredible flavours. Discover how the senses of taste and smell are linked, how octopuses taste with the end of their tentacles and how people from around the world enjoy different flavours of food and drink. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the straightforward text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to taste things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact wi
Author: Kay Woodward
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Keywords: senses, hearing
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0836844068
ISBN-13: 9780836844061
You hear sounds all the time - some are high screeches and some are low rumbles; some are loud bangs and some are soft whispers. Find out how you use your sense of hearing to listen to all these incredible sounds. Discover how people who can’t hear use sign language to communicate, how a bat uses echoes to locate things around it and how some minibeasts hear things through their legs. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the simple text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to hear things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact with
