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Line of Sight: How Vision Shapes Our Minds

Line of Sight: How Vision Shapes Our Minds

Andrew Parker

W. W. Norton Company
2022
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Color does not really exist in the world around us: objects reflect the sun's rays in different proportions; our eyes collect those reflected rays and our brains apply color. But why invent color?In Line of Sight, scientist Andrew Parker explains his famous "Light Switch Theory," which holds that the evolution of vision caused the "Cambrian explosion" more than 520 million years ago. He examines the origins of the eye in our earliest animal ancestors and how modern sight developed over the course of millions of years. He then delves into how vision has driven the evolution of specifically human characteristics, from consciousness to artistic expression, language development, and emotion. Finally, Parker considers how we might use evolutionary knowledge of the eye to improve our lives and society, from introducing morale-boosting colors and shapes in hospitals to improving technologies such as the motion-detecting systems crucial for self-driving cars.
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Line of Vision

Line of Vision

David Ellis

G.P. Putnam's Sons
2002
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David Ellis's Line of Vision won the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Marty Kalish is a young man suffocating in the heat of an affair with a married woman named Rachel. When Rachel's husband disappears one night, Marty is one of the first to be questioned. With few likely suspects, the police arrest him for murder. We know Marty was outside their home that night. We know he has a motive. We know he's guilty of something. But is it murder? Everything we have learned--about Marty as a man, his affair with Rachel, and the night in question--comes from Marty himself. But as the trial unfolds to a jaw-dropping conclusion, we learn that there is more to the truth than one man's narrow line of vision.
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Line of Fire

Line of Fire

Jo Davis

Penguin Publishing Group
2010
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To his fellow firemen, Tommy Skyler has it all. But the golden boy of Station Five hides a private pain. He was once a star quarterback until tragedy derailed his dream. Since then, he's struggled with his choices-including his decision to become a firefighter. His one ray of light shines in beautiful nurse Shea Ford. When a dangerous rescue lands Tommy in the ER, what better opportunity to win her over? But when a conspiracy culminates in deadly arson, Tommy realizes that a ruthless enemy is closing in, threatening to destroy the couple's love- and their lives.
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Line of Fire

Line of Fire

W. E. B. Griffin

G.P. Putnam's Sons
1993
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Two marines trapped on a small Coastwatcher island while reporting on Japanese air activity must rely for their survival on the special rescue team that has been assembled to save them. Reprint.
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Line of Fire

Line of Fire

Andy McNab

Transworld Publishers Ltd
2018
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'Like the best action films in book form' FHMNick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong. Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil's bargain.
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Line of Fire

Line of Fire

Andy McNab

Random House UK
2018
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Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he?s very, very wrong.Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil?s bargain. In exchange for his own safety ? a life for a life ? Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn?t want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK. And for the first time in a long time, he?s not operating alone.But Stone and his team don?t find just anyone. They find a world-class hacker, so good that her work might threaten the stability of the western world as we know it. These are dangerous waters and Stone is quickly in over his head. Before he finally knows which way to turn, the choice is ripped out of his hands.Most people might think of home as safety but Nick Stone isn?t most people. For him and his team, it?s just another place to get caught in the line of fire?
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Line of Fire

Line of Fire

Andy McNab

Random House UK
2017
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'Like the best action films in book form' FHM Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn't want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK.
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Line of Dissent

Line of Dissent

Ray Scott

Silverbird Publishing
2023
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A relaxing round of golf is interrupted by an assassin with mysterious motivations...Two golfers playing a round of golf are shot at by a sniper. Investigation indicates the shots came from a knot of trees alongside one of the fairways. Days later one of the players, Philip Meredith, is nearly run down in the street, a week later he is again shot at whilst on a sales trip in a country area of Victoria. Being an upright citizen with, he believes, no enemies he is utterly perplexed by these attacks.During one attack he hears one of his given names uttered by one of his attackers, so he is definitely their selected target, but why? Then he receives a message from a stranger who says he has the answer to the mystery, but during their meeting they realise they are both at risk.There is an exciting chase as they are pursued through country Victoria to Melbourne by an organization determined to kill them both. Meredith has to reach London, alive, before everything can be resolved.
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Line in the Sand

Line in the Sand

Rachel St. John

Princeton University Press
2012
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Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
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Line by Line

Line by Line

Jennifer Delamere

Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
2020
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Alice McNeil resolved at a young age to travel through life unencumbered by love or marriage, free to make her own decisions. A seasoned telegrapher, she's recently acquired a coveted position at an important trading firm, but when the company's ambitious junior director returns to London, things begin to change in ways Alice could never have imagined.For Douglas Shaw, years of hard work and ingenuity enabled him to escape a life of grinding poverty. He's also determined to marry into high society--a step that will ensure he never returns to the conditions of his past. He and Alice form a friendly relationship based on mutual respect, but anything deeper is not in their plans. However, when Alice accidentally raises the ire of a jealous and vindictive coworker who's intent on ruining her life, Alice and Douglas are forced to confront what is truly important in their lives. Will their growing bond give them the courage to risk finding a better way?
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