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Lady Audley\\'s Secret [EasyRead Edition]

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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The doctor's wife (1864)

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A Natural History of the Senses (Vintage)

A Natural History of the Senses (Vintage)

by Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. "Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in."--The New York Times. (Literature--Classics... (more)

Lady Audley's Secret

by M. E. Braddon, David Skilton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as "high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently... (more)

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet.Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.

Sensation And Perception (Gray Matter)

by Mike May

Everything that we experience depends on sensing and perceiving. Specialized receptors for the five senses - hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching - capture information from chemical compounds, compressed air, electromagnetic waves, mechanical sensations, and more. From that information, our brain creates an impression of the world around us. "Sensation and Perception" focuses on how these systems work,... (more)

Iolani; or, Tahiti as It Was

by Ira Bruce Nadel, Wilkie Collins

"It is not an exaggeration to claim that the resurfacing of Iolani , the first stab at fiction by a major Victorian novelist, is a literary event of genuine importance."--Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, New York. Written 150 years ago, never published, and presumed lost for nearly a century, Wilkie Collins's earliest novel now appears in print for the first time. Iolani is a sensational romance--a tale of terror... (more)

Eye and Brain

by R. L. Gregory

Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. In this book, Richard L. Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception normally works and why it... (more)

MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality

MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality

by Robert Ornstein

The Frog who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

The Frog who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

by Jamie Ward

As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many other people, has synesthesia - a fascinating condition in which music can have color, words can have taste, and time and numbers float through space. Everyone will be closely acquainted with at least 6 or 7 people... (more)

Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)

Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)

by Erin Manning

With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement. From this idea of intensity—the incipiency at the heart of movement—Manning... (more)

The Beetle

by Richard Marsh

The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siècle London in search of vengeance for the defilement of a sacred tomb in Egypt. In imitation of various popular fiction genres of the late nineteenth century, Marsh unfolds a tale of terror, late imperial fears, and the... (more)

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Lady Audley\\'s Secret [EasyRead Edition]

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The doctor's wife (1864)

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A Natural History of the Senses (Vintage)

by Diane Ackerman

Lady Audley's Secret

by M. E. Braddon, David Skilton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Sensation And Perception (Gray Matter)

by Mike May

Iolani; or, Tahiti as It Was

by Ira Bruce Nadel, Wilkie Collins

Eye and Brain

by R. L. Gregory

MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality

by Robert Ornstein

The Frog who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

by Jamie Ward

Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)

by Erin Manning

The Beetle

by Richard Marsh