Who created Wonderland? When did films begin to talk? Where did jazz come from? What’s one kind of 3-D art?
In The Arts, you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll learn about the wide variety of visual and performing arts and meet some of the greatest artists of yesterday and today.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern history and culture and readers with an interest in memory, mnemonics, and the synergy of text and image.

The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition, and those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers, sermons, pictures, and music. The mixing of visual and verbal media was commonplace throughout medieval cultures: pictures contained visual puns, words were often verbal paintings, and both were used equally as tools for making thoughts. The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.

This book is truly a visual feast for the eyes, a fun book just to browse and look at or to learn about visual illusions.
The theory about how each optical illusion works can be very simple, or very complex, sometimes requiring advanced neurophysiology and even mathematics and calculus to understand, so there's great variation in terms of the range of difficulty and complexity.
Anyway the learning experiences you can get out of visual illusions are a greater understanding - & appreciation - of how the brain really works & its innate abilities.

Schaum's Outline of Visual Basic by Byron S Gottfried

Book Description

This comprehensive, easy-to-use introduction to Visual Basic contains: complete, solved examples that illustrate a range of material, from simple points to more complex programming problems; chapter-ending programming problems that reinforce concepts; and a comprehensive, annotated appendix for easy reference.