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The Art of Looking Sideways

Alan Fletcher

2001·1066 pages·Nonfiction

Literary Fiction Science & Mind

A primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, trivia, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the limitless resources of the human mind.

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The Art of Looking Sideways

Year

2001

Pages

1066

Type

Nonfiction

Literary Fiction Science & Mind

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A primer in visual intelligence and an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination is comprised of an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, trivia, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the limitless resources of the human mind.

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