"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...

A wordless picture book that shows a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.

A gray mouse's journey through what appears to be the grass, rocks, and tree branches of a forest proves his mother's adage that "Things are not always what they seem."

An exploration of light for artists, using a wide variety paintings to show how the behavior of light defines and nuances of form, color, space, and atmosphere; and discussing different mediums and their results.

A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.

Explores how still-life paintings can look three-dimensional, how open doors can lead nowhere, and how other optical illusions are created in paintings by artists ranging from Raphael to Escher.

The purpose of this book is to train (or retrain) you to paint what your eye actually sees -- sometimes the hardest of all jobs.