Visual Intelligence

[abp:054438105X:c:alignright]Author: Amy E. Herman Rating: [rating: 2.5/5] It's a unique approach teaching people how to see and communicate effectively by studying works of art, and it's practically useful to apply these skills to the everyday life no matter what your occupation is. However, the originality cannot support entire 300+ pages.…

Supersense

[abp:0061452645:c:alignright]Author: Bruce M. Hood Rating: [rating: 4/5] Supernatural beliefs are often associated with religions or superstitious. Does it mean that an atheist or a scientifically-trained highly-rational person is immune from super natural thinking? We try to avoid touching things that criminals have touched or living in the room that people…

Blink

[abp:0316172324:c:alignright]Author: Malcolm Gladwell Rating: [rating: 3/5] The author starts the book with an event around Getty's collection of a kouros sculpture: how historians hunch the kouros sculpture might be a fake at the first sight, but all the scientific approaches fail to discover. The author then introduces the center phrase…