books about: illusions     books:       OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion9 reviews Lucas Conley PublicAffairs, 2008 Why DID you buy that? I had to chuckle at the title of this book "Obsessive Branding Disorder." This sounds like the latest mental disease to make the rounds of television talk shows, but the author is pointing up a marketing "disease" in business. In the absence of an original idea of worth, in a world awash with me-too products, marketing tries desperately to grab a few milliseconds of our attention to influence our ...             Magic Moving Images: Animated optical illusions (Animated Optical Illusions)5 reviews Colin Ord Tarquin Publications, 2007 Great fun for adults and kids If you're one of those who loves the zoetrope at the local museum, this book makes you feel like you took a piece of it home with you! My whole family enjoyed it. I think it will make a great birthday present for some of our young friends.             The Palace of Illusions: A Novel20 reviews Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Doubleday, 2008 Panchali's Mahabharat The Palace of Illusions. Or as the author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, also calls it - Panchali's Mahabharat. Beautifully written, this book is the Indian epic Mahabharat written from Princess Panchali's perspective. Panchali or Draupadi, is born from fire along with her brother, Dhrishtadyumna. Panchali, strong-willed, is clear from very early in her childhood that her life has more meaning than ...             Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion28 reviews Al Seckel Sterling, 2007 You cannot trust your eyes This is a fascinating book to dip and absorb and marvel at how the artists use various techniques to show what we look at we dont see, and we see what we are "programmed" to see. Good fun.             The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and ...456 reviews Gary R. Renard Hay House, 2005 Love it All I was raised Catholic and competently educated by the Jesuit Order of the church. This became a problem, because I was taught to be intelligent and then I was asked to believe all the nonsense pedalled as Truth; like an all loving God will send you to hell after you die if you break some silly rules that everyone breaks, including the priests. All-Loving! Are you kidding? And the hypocracy, my ...             The Future of an Illusion20 reviews Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, ... W. W. Norton & Company, 1989 Roger Schmeeckle Misrepresents Freud In his 27 Feb 2006 review of Freud's The Future of an Illusion, Roger Schmeeckle misrepresents Freud's explanation (on pages 38-42 of this Norton publication) between Illusion and Delusion. Roger correctly identified Freud's concept of Delusion as "something that is believed that is not true" -- but then oversimplifies by stating that Freud said an Illusion is "something that may be true or ...             Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give ...23 reviews Judith Viorst Free Press, 1998 Good for everyone Sometimes we wonder why life is so damn tough and sad and tragic. Well, this book doesn't help to answer those questions or to make it seem any better, but it does normalize all of those feelings, and it does explore all of the normal and necessary losses people experience in their lives. My therapist recommended it to me when my not-good-for-me boyfriend broke up with me and in turn, facilitated ...             The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By36 reviews Scott A. Shane Yale University Press, 2008 Believe or not, we study entrepreneurship, but much of our implicit belief about entrepreneurship turned out to be wrong I was drawn to this book when Dr. Shane gave us a quiz about the FACTS of entrepreneurship. Believe it or not, although many of us might have thought we were savvy in entrepreneurship, we got almost none of the questions correct. After that, I placed a pre-order for this book and waited for months before this book was first in print and available. It was quite a worthwhile. What we got ...             Illusions472 reviews Richard Bach Arrow Books Ltd, 2001 A book to read, then read 10 more times! This book happily holds the title of my favorite book of all time. I first read it 15 years ago, and it's still held strong as the best. It's inspirational, adventurous, and deep. It's an easy read, yet you'll never forget it. If you're anything like me, your copy will end up highlighted, bent, wrinkled, broken, and beautiful.             The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation61 reviews Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas Disney Editions, 1995 Great Book For Animators! Anyone who loves Disney animation and anyone who is learning the process of animation needs to get their hands on this book. It is long, it is detailed, but it is well worth it. This book mainly covers the essential Principles of Animation such as Squash and Stretch, Anticipation, Follow Through, etc. Go get it!             Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World10 reviews Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Understand the complexity of the Internet Jack and Tim made one thing dramatically clear: The Internet is no lawless enclave in our world. Their journey from the very beginning to the modern Internet is full of clear examples and anecdotes describing the "rude awakening" of idealists and patient people who participated in the development of the globe-consuming web. When I read that the authors come from the dry plains of law science I ...             News: The Politics of Illusion (8th Edition) (Longman Classics in Political Science) Lance Bennett Longman, 2008             Magic Eye Beyond 3D: Improve Your Vision8 reviews Magic Eye Inc., Marc Grossman Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004 Some see where others can only look! The last book like this that I reviewed was Magic Eye II ;which I reviewed on May 25,2004. That book was published in 1994 ,several years after we first became familiar with these 3-D or Stereograms. This book was published in 2004 and we can see that there has been considerable advances in this artform.The one characteristic of these pictures has been that thay are easy to identify because of ...             The Ultimate Book of Optical Illusions3 reviews Al Seckel Sterling, 2006 exceeded expectations, fun for whole family I cannot tell you how pleased I am with this book. I had been loooking for a "science-y" type book to donate to my son's kindergarten class - something to get kids excited about science other than dinosaurs. Well, my son got so excited when he started "getting" the illusions that I literally thought he was going to have a potty accident. He wanted to look at page after page - some of the ...             Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World6 reviews Magic Eye Inc. Andrews and McMeel Publishing, 1993 You Never Forget Your First Time Yep, the first time those seemingly random sqiggles of color in Magic Eye leap into formation and you're staring down at an object under all that chaotic visual mess...it's a magic moment for sure. These books are a lot of fun and worth the effort it takes to get the knack of how to do it. It took me a few tries before I saw anything here, so if at first you don't succeed, stay with it because ...             The Illusion of Conscious Will (Bradford Books)26 reviews Daniel M. Wegner The MIT Press, 2003 Excellent step forward an a core issue of cognitive science, but punches get pulled a bit at the end Along with that, it's an excellent refutation of the illogic and weak knees of someone like Dan Dennett, as well as seeming to scare the hell out of a lot of amateur readers who perhaps should never be allowed near material like this in the first place. The title speaks for itself. Wegner then looks at the latest findings in modern neuroscience, along with the latest speculation in cognitive ...             Magic Eye Gallery: A Showing Of 88 Images11 reviews Magic Eye Inc. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1995 you will be able to appreciate the power of 'splatter vision' practised by secret service agents, army snipers, fighter pilots! Magic Eye Gallery: A Showing Of 88 Images by N.E. Thing Enterprises I am pleasantly surprised that this treasury of eighty-eight colourful random-dot stereograms is still around. The publisher is apparently the leading pioneer in this field. I thought the 'craze' had faded towards the end of the nineties. Personally, I am also fascinated by random-dot stereograms. My first exposure to them ...             The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design37 reviews Leonard Susskind Back Bay Books, 2006 A new Law of Nature? Thought provoking and fascinating book that gives a clear notion what anthropic principle is about. Have the physicists discovered a new fundamental law of nature? This book gives a definite impression that this indeed happened.             News: The Politics of Illusion (7th Edition) (Longman Classics in Political Science) W. Lance Bennett Longman, 2006 This favorite of both instructors and students is a "behind-the-scenes" tour of news in American politics. The core question explored in this book is: How well does the news, as the core of the national political information system, serve the needs of democracy? In investigating this question, the book examines how various political actors—from presidents and members of Congress, to interest organizations and citizen-activists—try to get ...             The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Citadel Underground)21 reviews Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, ... Citadel, 2000 Tomorrow Never Knows Since there is so much talk about the Beatles song, Tomorrow Never Knows, I have decided to use it as the 'working title' of this review. We don't know what tomorrow will bring. It is a bit audacious on our part to even think that there might even be a tomorrow because all supposed tomorrows are simply extensions of our today. I picked this book up in a used bookstore in San Francisco. I ...              search for books animated, animation, borderless, business, conscious, controls, deception, dependencies, disappearance, disorder, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, expectations, experience, forgiveness, illusion, illusions, impossible, intelligent, investors, landscape, miracles, necessary, obsessive, political, politics, psychedelic, ultimate, underground, universe books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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