Now in its fifteenth printing, "In the Mind's Eye" has been recognised as a classic in its field. The book still stands alone as a uniquely compelling argument for the great importance of visual thinking and visual technologies as well as the high creative potential of many individuals with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. In this second edition, Thomas G West reviews a number of recent developments that support and extend the perspectives and expectations originally set forth in the first edition. In addition to the original eleven portraits of famous individuals with learning difficulties (including Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison), he has added brief profiles of two dyslexic scientists known for their ability to generate, in quite different fields, powerful but unexpected innovations and discoveries: William J Dreyer, a Caltech professor who used his highly visual imagination to see things in molecular biology and immunology well before others; and John R (Jack) Horner, who flunked out of the University of Montana seven times (requiring letters of support for readmission) but is now known as one of the three most important palaeontologists in the world. Recognised as among the 'best of the best' by the American Library Association in their broad psychology and neuroscience category, this title belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in visual thinking, visual technologies and highly creative people with learning difficulties.
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Thomas G. West is a writer, lecturer and consultant based in Washington, DC. In connection with In the Mind's Eye, he has been invited to provide over 200 presentations, interviews and documentary segments for computer, business, education, art, design, scientific and medical groups in the U.S. and fourteen countries overseas.
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By A. MOSKOWITZ
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This is a book every parent of a Dyslexic child and every Dyslexic adult should read. It will open your eyes!!!!
By Susannah
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OK so I have to read this for my research, but you know what, it's really interesting. I have to take bite sized chunks and re-read the occassional bit and I'm only half way through but generally it's quite easy to swallow. It's also well organised with referenced notes at the back.
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an excellent source for dyslexics and their loved ones
12 Nov 2009
By Tony J. Castillo
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As someone who has an uncle with dyslexia and at times believes they themselves are dyslexic, this book showed me what is behind this learning difficulty and why things appear differently for some than for others. It also is quite a confidence booster to read about the examples of important people the author gives, as well as more recent advances in the understanding learning difficulties. I appreciated the explanation of thinking visually which can be done by anyone. This book definitely got me motivated to appreciate how dealing with learning difficulties allows people to see things in new ways.
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A Classic Made Even Better By New Additions
7 Dec 2009
By Brock & Fernette Eide
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Without any question Thomas G. West's "In the Mind's Eye" is one of the most important and insightful books ever written on the critical and critically neglected question: What is dyslexia (and related learning challenges) really all about? West provides critical evidence that the neurological variations that produce the reading, writing, spelling, arithmetical, and other challenges associated with dyslexia, are neither the only nor in a crucial sense the core features of dyslexia, but are in a way incidental accompaniments of a pattern of brain organization that can also create very real advantageous. West documents much of the growing body of work that supports this hypothesis, and he does so in a beautifully lucid and engaging fashion. This book, which has proven an invaluable source of enlightenment and encouragement for countless dyslexic individuals and those who work and care for them, is enhanced in this newly revised edition by an extended epilogue that touches on changes that have occurred in the nearly two decades since this now classic book first appeared. It's already wonderful resources and bibliography sections have also been updated. No one interested in dyslexia and related learning patterns should consider their education on this subject complete until they have read--and reread--this wonderful book.
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Inspirering and Educational
23 Jan 2011
By Hyrum Pratt Feriante
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As someone with learning disabilities I believe this book should be read by every educater and student, as it is not only a lesson in understanding alternate development but of inspirering and limitless human potential.
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