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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, The Storytelling Animal …
Professoren i buret
Idet et MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)-treningssenter flytter inn over gata for kontoret hans, ser engelskprofessoren Jonathan Gottschall en mulighet, og en utfordring. Han nærmer seg …
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym opens across the …
The Story Paradox
Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of …
The Literary Animal
In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that …
Professor in the Cage
An English professor begins training in the sport of mixed martial arts and explores the science and history behind the violence of menWhen a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in …
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
Evolution, Literature, and Film
Featuring thirty-nine essential essays by pioneering scholars, scientists, and critics, Evolution, Literature, and Film opens with an introduction to the principles of evolution, …
The Rape of Troy
Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's …
Storytelling Animal
“Insightful...draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”—The New York Times Book Review Humans live in …
Rape of Troy
Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's …