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Shifting Baselines
"Shifting Baselines" explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, …
Jerome Bruner
Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of “the cognitive revolution” in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In …
The Literature of Hell
Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts. Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted …
Making Sense
Understanding, as Descartes, Locke and Kant all insisted, is the primary 'faculty' of the mind; yet our modern sciences have been slow to advance a clear and testable account of …
The Mind on Paper
Although the importance of literacy is widely acknowledged in society and remains at the top of the political agenda, writing has been slow to establish a place in the cognitive …
Psychological Theory and Educational Reform
For well over a century educational reformers have looked for a breakthrough in the sciences of psychology and pedagogy that would dramatically improve the effectiveness of …
The World on Paper
What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature and ourselves? In this historical and developmental account, David Olson offers a …
Covert Action
Following their military defeat in the Battle of Taiwan, China opens a new front in the struggle for geopolitical supremacy. As China's Belt and Road Initiative brings together the …
Developing Theories of Intention
The chapters collected in this volume represent the "e;state-of-the-art"e; of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that …
Literacy, Narrative and Culture
First book from the new World of Writing seriesInterdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of linguistics, psychology, history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and history of …
Developing Theories of Intention
The chapters collected in this volume represent the "state-of-the-art" of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the …
Weapons of Mass Deception
The greatest intelligence failure of our time...or the greatest deception? When Navy SEAL Lieutenant Brendan McHugh captures an Iranian diplomat on a raid, he knows something is …