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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191620688
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning written by Ray Jackendoff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language, thought, and perception does not look much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced by language. Written with an informality that belies both the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019969320X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning written by Ray Jackendoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions this is the author's most important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of Language in 2002.

Foundations of Language

Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191574015
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Language written by Ray Jackendoff and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes on to propose a radical re-conception of how the brain processes language. This opens up vivid new perspectives on every major aspect of language and communication, including grammar, vocabulary, learning, the origins of human language, and how language relates to the real world. Foundations of Language makes important connections with other disciplines which have been isolated from linguistics for many years. It sets a new agenda for close cooperation between the study of language, mind, the brain, behaviour, and evolution.

Us

Author : Dan Tocchini
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 1434700828
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Us written by Dan Tocchini and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran marriage coach Daniel L. Tocchini doesn't want to improve marriages. He wants to transform them. Drawing on personal experience and stories from couples he has coached, he offers practical guidance to move couples beyond communication tricks and gimmicks to help them truly understand "Us" for the first time—talking honestly, listening generously, tackling tricky issues, breaking out of ruts, and abandoning self-centered "consumer thinking." Innovative, insightful, and thoroughly biblical, Tocchini's approach has helped thousands in his popular seminars. Whether a marriage is in deep trouble or just coasting along, it's time for Christian couples to read the User's Guide that God intended.

How to Read a Novel

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312359888
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Novel written by John Sutherland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is as humorous as it is learned, author Sutherland tells you how to read fiction better than you do now. He reminds readers how the delicate charms of fiction can be at once wonderful and inspired and infuriating. On one level this is about novels: how they work, what they're about, what makes them good or bad, and how to talk about them. At a deeper level, this book describes what happens when a reader meets a novel. Will a great love affair begin? Will the rendezvous end in disappointment? Taking his readers to the bookshop, Sutherland helps them judge a book by its cover, wondering aloud what genre might be best, even going so far as to analyze one of the latest American bestsellers, all to help the reader choose the novel that is right for him or her.--From publisher description.

Radically Happy

Author : Phakchok Rinpoche
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611807697
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Radically Happy written by Phakchok Rinpoche and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East meets West in this fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life. In Radically Happy, a meditating Silicon Valley entrepreneur teams up with a young, insightful, and traditionally educated Tibetan Rinpoche. Together they present a path to radical happiness—a sense of well-being that you can access anytime but especially when life is challenging. Using mindfulness techniques and accessible meditations, personal stories and scientific studies, you’ll get to know your own mind and experience how a slight shift in your perspective can create a radical shift in your life.

Obfuscation

Author : Finn Brunton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029731
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Obfuscation written by Finn Brunton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should. With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.

Think Like a Genius

Author : Todd Siler
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307756904
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Think Like a Genius written by Todd Siler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the easy steps to harnessing the incredible creative power of your mind that can enable anyone to Think Like A Genius. How you already think like a genius without even knowing it--page 6 The secret formula for genius: C.R.E.A.T.E.--page 22 Ways to overcome the fear that inhibits the genius within you--page 58 How to transform the cynicism of I can't do it to the confidence of I can do anything--page 66 Breaking out of mental ruts and daily routines that block your road to genius--page 77 How to turn the obvious into a work of art, a new insight, or a multimillion-dollar creation--page 92 Getting unstuck from the quicksand of indecision and procrastination--page 106 The secret essence of every stroke of genius--page 165 And much more!

A User's Guide to the Brain

Author : John J. Ratey, M.D.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375701079
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to the Brain written by John J. Ratey, M.D. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ratey, bestselling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, lucidly explains the human brain’s workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain, and demonstrates how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, and behavior. By giving us a greater understanding of how the brain responds to the guidance of its user, he provides us with knowledge that can enable us to improve our lives. In A User’s Guide to the Brain, Ratey clearly and succinctly surveys what scientists now know about the brain and how we use it. He looks at the brain as a malleable organ capable of improvement and change, like any muscle, and examines the way specific motor functions might be applied to overcome neural disorders ranging from everyday shyness to autism. Drawing on examples from his practice and from everyday life, Ratey illustrates that the most important lesson we can learn about our brains is how to use them to their maximum potential.

A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption

Author : Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317832469
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption written by Norbert M. Samuelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly guide will help students of the 'Star' to be able to discuss at a basic level what, at least conceptually, Rosenzweig intended to say and how all that he says is interrelated.

Silence: A User's Guide, Volume One

Author : Maggie Ross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725249499
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Silence: A User's Guide, Volume One by : Maggie Ross

Download or read book Silence: A User's Guide, Volume One written by Maggie Ross and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence is essential for the health and well-being of humans and the environment in which they live. Yet silence has almost vanished from our lives and our world. Of all the books that claim to be about silence, this is the only one that addresses silence directly. Silence: A User's Guide is just what the title says: it is a guide to silence, which is both a vast interior spaciousness, and the condition of our being in the natural world. This book exposes the processes by which silence can transfigure our lives--what Maggie Ross calls "the work of silence"; it describes how lives steeped in silence can transfigure other lives unawares. It shows how the work of silence was once understood to be the foundation of the teaching of Jesus, and how this teaching was once an intrinsic part of Western Christianity; it describes some of the methods by which the institution suppressed the work of silence, and why religious institutions are afraid of silence. Above all, this book shows that the work of silence gives us a way of being in the world that is more than we can ask for or imagine.

A User's Guide to Bible Translations

Author : David Dewey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830832734
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Bible Translations written by David Dewey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Dewey offers an easy-to-use handbook for digging through the mountain of Bible translation options until you find the right Bible for the right purpose.

The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

Author : Keith J. Holyoak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199313792
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning written by Keith J. Holyoak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning brings together the contributions of many of the leading researchers in thinking and reasoning to create the most comprehensive overview of research on thinking and reasoning that has ever been available.

A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262631431
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia written by Brian Massumi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-03-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze's entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of "state-happy" Marxism and "school-building" strains of psychoanalysis. The second, A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307414094
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was his college professor Morrie Schwartz. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. “The truth is, Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.

This Means This, This Means That Second Edition

Author : Sean Hall
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780673914
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book This Means This, This Means That Second Edition written by Sean Hall and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory. This new edition features an expanded introduction that carefully and clearly presents the world of semiotics before leading into the book's 76 sections of key semiotic concepts. Each short section begins with a single image or sign, accompanied by a question inviting us to interpret what we are seeing. Turning the page, we can compare our response with the theory behind the sign, and in this way, actively engage in creative thinking. A fascinating read, this book provides practical examples of how meaning is made in contemporary culture.

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113947166X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought written by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.