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Each chapter in Portraits of the Mind addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain, and each is introduced with an essay by a leading scientist in that field of study. Extended captions provide detailed explanations of each image as well as the major insights gained by scientists over the course of the past twenty years. The result is a peek at the mind's innermost workings, helping readers to understand, and offering clues about what may lie ahead. " Portraits of the Mind achieves a rare combination of beauty and knowledge." CARL ZIMMER , author of Soul Made Flesh and The Mind's Eye Goes Blind "John Keats's insistence that truth is beauty is exemplified by Carl Schoonover's wonderful book, Portraits of the Mind . Since one cannot understand the present without examining the past, this book offers a delightful and instructive way of accomplishing just that."
Carl Schoonover
Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century (9780810990333): Carl Schoonover: Books
Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the brain as never before. These black-and-white and vibrantly colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed daily by scientists around the world, but most have never before been seen by the general public. Each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced by a leading scientist in that field of study. Author Carl Schoonover’s captions provide detailed explanations of each image as well as the major insights gained by scientists over the course of the past 20 years.
The Black Book of Colors (9780888998736): Menena Cottin, Rosana Faria, Elisa Amado: Books
This is a very good book. The concept is innovative, the raised illustrations are engaging (even though they have no color), the language is beautiful. But the Braille is absolutely unreadable. It's simply not high enough, and it's in "Grade 1" Braille - the most basic (hardest to read) form of Braille out there, with no contractions or abbreviations.