March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 56m
English
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Introduction: Doing What Can’t Be Done
1. Details surrounding Armstrong’s life and death are from Thomas Lewis, Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (New York: HarperCollins, 1991).
2. Ibid., 254.
One: Through the Eye of An Iconoclast
1. Dale Chihuly, interview with author, Seattle, WA, November 15, 2006.
2. See Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Boyar, and Burt Boyar, Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965).
3. See Nancy Etcoff, Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (New York: Anchor Books, 1999).
4. See Brian A. Wandell, Foundations of Vision (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 1995).
5. See Kristin Koch et al., “How Much the Eye Tells the Brain,” Current Biology 16 (2006): 1428–1434. ...
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