Free Download 3D Drawing, Optical Illusion, And Doodling on Graph Ruled Paper: Fun Guide To Drawing With Step-by-Step Pictures For Kids And Parents by Olivia Hill
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08M694LTN | 81 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
Does your child display a creative leaning and loves drawing and art?

Free Download Anthony Peake, "The Labyrinth of Time: The Illusion of Past, Present and Future"
English | ISBN: 1848378688 | 2012 | 336 pages | EPUB | 953 KB
Time is one of life's great mysteries. From sand passing through an hourglass to 'time's winged chariot hurrying near', we often perceive it as an unrelenting force which exists outside of ourselves. And yet anyone who remembers the long summers of childhood or has sat watching an agonisingly slow ticking clock feels that time is elastic. So which is it?

Free Download The Illusion of Choice by Chirag Patel
English | MP3@192 kbps | 2h 50m | 234.5 MB
Sometimes, honour and bravery can win a reprieve from destiny. A story of hope and despair, as Artificial intelligences, posthumans, and other minds struggle against their fates.

Free Download La Grande Illusion (BFI Film Classics) by Julian Jackson
English | October 13, 2009 | ISBN: 1844572854 | True EPUB | 96 pages | 10.6 MB
Jean Renoir's masterpiece La Grande Illusion (1937) tells the story of two French prisoners of war escaping through Germany towards France during World War I. Its themes of divided class, racial and national loyalties and the conflict between patriotism and pacifism made it a controversial film on its release on the eve of World War II. Goebbels, who had once declared the film 'Cinematic Public Enemy Number 1', ordered the prints to be confiscated during the Nazi Occupation of France.

Free Download Ian Price, "The Activity Illusion"
English | 2010 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 1848769490 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Why are we working harder than ever and yet being less effective? Why do we let work bleed into family life and holidays? The Activity Illusion breaks open the vicious circle of hyperactive work practices and shows how to fix it for you and your organisation. You will discover: · how to work less and be more effective in your job · why activity has become the new status · how up to 20% of your organisation's payroll gets soaked up by ineffective use of email · why we get "addicted" to email and BlackBerry · how to create the virtuous circle of an effective work life and a great life outside the office.

Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America By Wendy Bellion
2011 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 0807833886 | PDF | 19 MB
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.

Lorna Finlayson, "The Political is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy"
English | 2015 | pages: 212 | ISBN: 1783482869, 1783482877 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series of specific debates and arguments, Finlayson analyzes the way in which apparently neutral methodological devices such as "charitable interpretation" and "constructive criticism" function so as to protect against challenges to the status quo.

Jon Danielsson, "The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can "
English | ISBN: 0300234813 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail

The Deceptive Brain: Blame, Punishment, and the Illusion of Choice by Robert L. Taylor M.D.
English | November 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1789047552 | 171 pages | PDF | 1.04 Mb
Preposterous as it sounds, we are not who we seem to be. Not even close. At the heart of this misperception is our deep-seated conviction of free choice. Based on emerging neurobehavioral science findings, The Deceptive Brain makes the case for human experience as a narrative illusion―an executive summary of sorts―that emerges from an incredibly complex brain. The Deceptive Brain drills down on what this finding means for the way we blame and punish, and presents a bold alternative approach to criminal justice based on blameless responsibility.

Picturing: Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel By Michael Irwin
2016 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1138648914 | PDF | 5 MB
First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of 'picturing', exploring the principles and problems concerned, and sheds light on the workings of fiction ― reassessing a number of famous novels in the process. By so doing, this work relates the academic study of the novel to the writing and reading of fiction, and the teaching of creative writing. This book will appeal to students of literature.