11 Top philosophy books like Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim

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Visual Thinking

By: Rudolf Arnheim

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, …

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1. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

Similar categories in Mark Wolynn's It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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2. Vadideki Zambak

By: Honoré de Balzac , Volkan Yalçıntoklu

3.72

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): 19. yy Fransız edebiyatının büyük ismi. Edebi kariyerine oyun yazarak… read more

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"Çok mutluyum, mutluluk benim için bir hastalık gibidir, beni yorar ve bir düş gibi silinip gitmesinden korkarım."

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux."

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais …"

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız. Sonra, bütün varlığımız acı deneylerden geçtiği, insanların ve olayların içine düştüğümüz zaman her şey, yavaş…"

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

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3. Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist: A Historical Experiment

By: E.H. Gombrich , Ernst Kris , Otto Kurz

3.64

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

“This is the first English translation of a brief, scholarly, and brilliantly original work which s… read more

Similar categories in E.H. Gombrich's Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist: A Historical Experiment book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
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4. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

Similar categories in Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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5. Fantasia

By: Bruno Munari

4.18

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Fantasia, invenzione, creatività e immaginazione nelle comunicazioni visive. È possibile capire com… read more

Similar categories in Bruno Munari's Fantasia book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • architecture
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
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6. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

By: E.H. Gombrich

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever re… read more

Similar categories in E.H. Gombrich's Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • art history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

Similar categories in Aristotle's Poetics book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

By: Marshall McLuhan , Lewis H. Lapham

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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9. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

Similar categories in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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10. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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11. Interaction of Color

By: Josef Albers , Nicholas Fox Weber

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Josef Albers's Interaction of Coloris a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as… read more

Similar categories in Josef Albers's Interaction of Color book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • architecture
  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
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12. How to Write a Thesis

By: Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Ital… read more

Similar categories in Umberto Eco's How to Write a Thesis book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

Similar categories in Marshall B. Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • philosophy
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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14. A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System

By: John Martineau

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A most unusual guide to the solar system, A Little Book of Coincidencesuggests that there may be fu… read more

Similar categories in John Martineau's A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

15. Critica portatile al visual design: Da Gutenberg ai social network

By: Riccardo Falcinelli

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Molte cose sembrano innocenti, e sono invece visual design. Durer era un visual designer come Steve… read more

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16. Women Who Run With the Wolves

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4.13

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more

Similar categories in Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With the Wolves book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

17. My Name Is Asher Lev

By: Chaim Potok

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more

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18. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more

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19. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's On Photography book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • art history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

20. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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21. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose … read more

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22. The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more

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23. Bodas de sangre

By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more

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24. Guardare, pensare, progettare. Neuroscienze per il design

By: Riccardo Falcinelli

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

I neuroni hanno qualcosa da insegnare ai designer e agli artisti? Assediati dai miti ingenui e abus… read more

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25. The Poetics of Space

By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more

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26. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

Similar categories in Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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27. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • nonfiction
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

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28. Mutlu Olma Sanatı

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

3.78

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Mutlu olmak, mutlu yaşamak mümkün müdür? Schopenhauer’in radikal kötümserliği, onun felsefesini … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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29. Figure: Come funzionano le immagini dal Rinascimento a Instagram

By: Riccardo Falcinelli

4.56

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Perché alcune immagini diventano famose e altre no, perché ci catturano, stupiscono, ipnotizzano: c… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • design
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30. Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

By: Riccardo Falcinelli

4.47

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

Perché le matite gialle vendono di più delle altre? Perché Flaubert veste di blu Emma Bovary? Perch… read more

Similar categories in Riccardo Falcinelli's Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
"Il colore è spesso un'idea o un'aspettativa. Ovvero certe tinte diventano tutt'uno con gli oggetti che le indossano al punto che è difficile pensarli altrimenti."

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

"Il pensiero critico può iniziare da fatti piccolissimi. Anche dal colore. Magari insegnando ai bambini che il verde si può fare mischiando il blu con il giallo. Si può. Funziona. È una delle grandi c…"

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

"Là fuori in sostanza esiste l'energia elettromagnetica e la fisica può studiarla, esistono precise lunghezze d'onda e la fisica può misurarle, ma non c'è il colore, che esiste solo quando un vivente …"

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

"Quasi sempre tendiamo a guardare il Rinascimento dal punto di vista degli artisti, eppure, se ci sforziamo di pensarci committenti, ci accorgiamo che il rapporto tra i Medici e Botticelli è molto sim…"

-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo

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31. Visual Thinking

By: Rudolf Arnheim

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, … read more

Similar categories in Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking book and Rudolf Arnheim's Visual Thinking

  • architecture
  • art
  • art history
  • film
  • art design
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business

20 Top nonfiction books like Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist: A Historical Experiment

E.H. Gombrich , Ernst Kris , Otto Kurz

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Fantasia

Bruno Munari

4.18

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7 Top philosophy books like How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco, Caterina Mongiat Farina, Geoff Farina

Transform Your Habits

Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Julia Cameron

3.96

Transform Your Habits

St. Augustine in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series)

Paul Strathern

3.13

Transform Your Habits

Momenti di trascurabile felicità

Francesco Piccolo

4.20

Transform Your Habits

How to Write a Thesis

Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None

4.62

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