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Author : Jay Fox
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038424269
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Snake Venom Metalloproteinases written by Jay Fox and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Snake Venom Metalloproteinases" that was published in Toxins
Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622533X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Imagination written by Stephen T. Asma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ambitious and exciting book about creativity . . . chart[s] new territory.” —Science Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases—all on the fly. Or a comedy troupe riffing on cues from the audience until the whole room erupts with laughter; a team of software engineers brainstorming their way to the next Google; or the Einsteins of the world code-cracking the mysteries of nature. Maybe it’s simply a child playing with her toys. What do all of these activities share? With wisdom, humor, and joy, philosopher Stephen T. Asma answers that question: imagination. And from there he takes us on an extraordinary tour of the human creative spirit. Guided by neuroscience, animal behavior, evolution, philosophy, and psychology, Asma burrows deep into the human psyche to look at the enigmatic, powerful engine that is our improvisational creativity—the source, he argues, of our remarkable imaginational capacity. How, he asks, can a story evoke a whole world inside us? How are we able to rehearse a skill, a speech, or even an entire scenario simply by thinking about it? How does creativity go beyond experience and help us make something completely new? And how does our moral imagination help us sculpt a better society? As he shows, we live in a world that is only partly happening in reality. Huge swaths of our cognitive experiences are made up by “what-ifs,” “almosts,” and “maybes,” an imagined terrain that churns out one of the most overlooked but necessary resources for our flourishing: possibilities. Considering everything from how imagination works in our physical bodies to the ways we make images, from the mechanics of language and our ability to tell stories to the creative composition of self-consciousness, Asma expands our personal and day-to-day forms of imagination into a grand scale: as one of the decisive evolutionary forces that has guided human development from the Paleolithic era to today. The result is an inspiring look at the rich relationships among improvisation, imagination, and culture, and a privileged glimpse into the unique nature of our evolved minds.
Author : Damian Sharp
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573242615
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Simple Chinese Astrology written by Damian Sharp and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient science tells what to expect--in life, career, and romance--in the coming years. Published to coincide with the Millennium Year of the Dragon, this guide makes this exacting science and art of divination and personal analysis accessible to Western readers. Illustrations & tables.
Author : Ludwig Huber
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031608038
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book The Rational Animal written by Ludwig Huber and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Dubinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139496948
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Understanding Language through Humor written by Stanley Dubinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology.
Author : Reuven Dukas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226169375
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Ecology II written by Reuven Dukas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive ecology investigates how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints on nervous systems limit or bias animal behavior. Research in cognitive ecology has expanded rapidly in the past decade, and this second volume builds on the foundations laid out in the first, published in 1998. Cognitive Ecology II integrates numerous scientific disciplines to analyze the ecology and evolution of animal cognition. The contributors cover the mechanisms, ecology, and evolution of learning and memory, including detailed analyses of bee neurobiology, bird song, and spatial learning. They also explore decision making, with mechanistic analyses of reproductive behavior in voles, escape hatching by frog embryos, and predation in the auditory domain of bats and eared insects. Finally, they consider social cognition, focusing on alarm calls and the factors determining social learning strategies of corvids, fish, and mammals. With cognitive ecology ascending to its rightful place in behavioral and evolutionary research, this volume captures the promise that has been realized in the past decade and looks forward to new research prospects.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book FDA Consumer written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Wharton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483218
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication written by Tim Wharton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, providing a unique examination of non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective. It charts a point of contact between pragmatics, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, ethology and psychology, and provides the analytical basis to answer some important questions: How are non-verbal behaviours interpreted? What do they convey? How can they be best accommodated within a theory of utterance interpretation?
Author : Theodora Lau
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 006077777X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes 5e written by Theodora Lau and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fifth edition, "The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes" remains the definitive, classic work on this fascinating subject and artfully combines the Eastern lunar calendar with Western solar-based astrology.
Author : S. Matthew Liao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199357676
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Moral Brains written by S. Matthew Liao and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience. This is the first volume to take stock of fifteen years of research of this fast-growing field of moral neuroscience and recommend future directions for research.
Author : Daniel D. Hutto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283451
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Presence of Mind written by Daniel D. Hutto and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will our everyday account of ourselves be vindicated by a new science? Or, will our self-understanding remain untouched by such developments? This book argues that beliefs and desires have a legitimate place in the explanation of action. Eliminativist arguments mistakenly focus on the vehicles of content not content itself. This book asks whether a naturalistic theory of content is possible. It is argued that a modest biosemantic theory of intentional, but nonconceptual, content is the naturalist’s best bet. A theory of this kind complements connectionism and recent work on embodied and embedded cognition. But intentional content is not equivalent to propositional content. In order to understand propositional content we must rely on Davidsonian radical interpretation. However, radical interpretation is shown to be at odds with physicalism. But if the best naturalised theory of content we are likely to get from cognitive science is only a theory of intentional content, then a naturalistic explanation of scientific theorising is not possible. It is concluded that cognitive science alone cannot explain the nature of our minds and that eliminativism is intellectually incoherent. (Series A)
Author : Carlton Foster
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728344832
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book THE POWER OF THE YOKES written by Carlton Foster and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of The Yoke tackles head-on the importance of starting off children the right way during the early years of life. The things that happen to children whether good or bad during the early years will have a significant impact later throughout the rest of their lives. The book deals with issues that could yoke people and prevent them from fulfilling their destiny. The yoke is not for the present but it is for the future. The yoke is a symbol of servitude. The book helps you to recognize the competing forces and voices that that will prevent you from becoming all that God has planned for your life. You are equipped to recognize the abundance of yokes. You are reminded that your life has worth and exposes the many snares that Satan sets to enslave you, causing you to live life short of What God destined you to become.
Author : Sherman Lewis
Publisher : Hayward Area Planning Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Ridgelands! The Closing of a Frontier written by Sherman Lewis and published by Hayward Area Planning Association. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, the open space lands from Hayward to Pleasanton in California were privately owned and sprawl development was booming. By 2020, the frontier was closed, and almost all the shorelands and ridgelands in this large area were protected as public open space and by regulation. The land was saved by many advocates and these are their stories, many narratives sometimes parallel to each other, other times connecting, involving elections, referendums, litigation, bond measures, lobbying, organizing, and campaigns. Each story is simple enough, but taken together they add up to a long and complex history.
Author : Janet R. Shapiro
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039371165X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Neurobiology For Clinical Social Work, Second Edition: Theory and Practice (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) written by Janet R. Shapiro and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying neurobiology and presenting it anew for the social-work audience. The art and science of relationship are at the core of clinical social work. Research in neurobiology adds a new layer to our understanding of the protective benefits of relationship and specifically, to our understanding of the neurobiology of attachment and early brain development. This second edition of Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work explores the application of recent research in neuroscience to prevention and intervention in multiple systems, settings, and areas such as the neurobiology of stress and the stress response system, the impact of early adversity and toxic stress on brain development, early childhood and adolescent brain development, and the application of this science to prevention and intervention in areas such as child welfare and juvenile justice. Social workers collaborate with individuals, families, communities, and groups that experience adversity, and at times, traumatic stressors. Research in neuroscience adds to our models of risk and resilience; informing our understanding of the processes by which adversity and trauma impact multiple indicators of wellbeing across time. Social workers can use this knowledge to inform their work and to support the neuroprotective benefit of relationship in the lives of individuals, families, and communities. This text provides essential information for cutting-edge social work practice.
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547527543
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author : Abrol Fairweather
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108179428
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention written by Abrol Fairweather and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary cognitive science clearly tells us that attention is modulated for speech and action. While these forms of goal-directed attention are very well researched in psychology, they have not been sufficiently studied by epistemologists. In this book, Abrol Fairweather and Carlos Montemayor develop and defend a theory of epistemic achievements that requires the manifestation of cognitive agency. They examine empirical work on the psychology of attention and assertion, and use it to ground a normative theory of epistemic achievements and virtues. The resulting study is the first sustained, naturalized virtue epistemology, and will be of interest to readers in epistemology, cognitive science, and beyond.
Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223033
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Bird Way written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
