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The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
Can You Believe Your Eyes?
Given the list of reference works in their bibliography, it's surprising that the list of visual illusions isn't more extensive. It was interesting to see sections explaining how proximity creates illusions of scale and makes people group together objects which are simply near each other. Still, the text doesn't suggest much more about where these habits might lead in practice. It does include an excellent example showing that all dials in a airplane are oriented the same way, so that any dials with unexpected readings will immediately pop out. The wild variability in the visual examples made it visually exhausting. I nearly missed a few excellent but "less noisy" examples. I also regret not plumbing the bibliography before dropping the book. But the authors did guarantee me that the same weight will seem heavier in a smaller bag.
