Daniel Brooks - Special Guest Author and Speaker (Other) Events in New Orleans, Louisiana

Location:
Postal code 70124, United States

New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
When: March 19, 2010
Starts at: 7:00 PM
This is not an all day event

Description:
Please come and join us for our special guest Daniel Brooks author, photographer and renowned scientist. He will be talking about & signing copies of his new book My Brothers' Eyes. You can order books ahead of time and he'll sign them at the meeting, or he will have a limited number of copies on hand for 20% off- $35.00 cash only that he will sign. Just let me know if you would like to purchase a book at the meeting. Look forward to this exciting meeting. My BrothersÃ?Â' Eyes How My Blind Brothers Taught Me to See Daniel R. Brooks Biologist and photographer Dan Brooks honors the legacy of his two blind brothers in photographs and prose. Imagine youÃ?Â're 4 years old, and the world begins to vanish from the center out. You compensate by sitting closer and to the side of the television. You learn to look out of the corner of your eyes. You are 4 years old; you have no idea this is not what happens normally. You donÃ?Â't question it. Knowing nothing else, you accept it. This is what happened to Lucien and then to Duncan, two of the authorÃ?Â's brothers, in the late 1950s. Their mother quickly recruited her other four sons to act as their brothersÃ?Â' eyes. Lucien and Duncan died in their early twenties, but the experience of being their eyes affected the author profoundly throughout his life, helping him see the world better, and with empathy and tolerance. They showed him how to cope with obstacles that became constraints, constraints that became impossible barriers. They helped him understand the arbitrary distinction between objectivity and subjectivity, in athletics, science and the arts. The author has woven an homage to Lucien and Duncan in text and images. The photographs place non-visual physical sensations in a visual context for sighted readers, verbally manipulating a non-visual world into a visual reality. ItÃ?Â's a kind of sÃ?©ance, fanning the spark of Lucien and Duncan that remains in the author, who watches with happy anticipation to see what happens next. AUTHOR BIO Dan Brooks is a tropical biodiversity scientist. He is a professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences), and has received honorary degrees from Stockholm University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has traveled and done fieldwork extensively throughout Latin America, and has taught in more than 20 countries on 5 continents. His photography draws on two inspirations Ã?Â- his more than 30 years as a field biologist and lecturer, and his experience growing up with two blind brothers. Email: [masked] My BrothersÃ?Â' Eyes How My Blind Brothers Taught Me to See Daniel R. Brooks Suggested Retail Price: $44.92 Check out Amazon Price:$35.33 & this item ships for FREE Trim size: 8Ã?Â" x 10Ã?Â" - Trade Paperback Page Count: 210 ISBN: 1449906745 ISBN-13: 9781449906740