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About Face
What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, …
Imagine There's No Woman
A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality.Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of …
Knowledge and the Flow of Information
What distinguishes clever computers from stupid people (besides their components)? The author of Seeing and Knowing presents in his new book a beautifully and persuasively written …
Loneliness
Loneliness is among the most common distresses. In one survey, a quarter of Americans interviewed said that they had suffered from loneliness within the past few weeks. Yet for a …
Visual Cognition
These essays tackle some of the central issues in visual cognition, presenting experimental techniques from cognitive psychology, new ways of modeling cognitive processes on …
Cosmic Clouds 3-D
Amazing 3-D images take readers inside the birth and death of stars.This visually amazing volume, with text and 3-D images, takes readers inside the birthplace of stars-the cosmic …
The Cerebral Code
The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better …
Principles and Methods for Historical Linguistics
Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.
A Logical Journey
Hao Wang (1921-1995) was one of the few confidants of the great mathematician and logician Kurt Goedel. A Logical Journey is a continuation of Wang's Reflections on Goedel and also …
Cross-Polity Time-Series Data
The assembly of an archive of longitudinal data on the world's nation-states was undertaken by the Center for Comparative Political Research in 1968, with computer-facilitated …
Housing Partnerships
Although the United States has developed highly sophisticated markets for funding corporate investment projects, markets for financing home ownership are comparatively rudimentary. …
Electromagnetic Fields, Energy, and Forces
This book develops a consistent macroscopic theory of electromagnetism and discusses the relation between circuit theory and field theory. The theory is developed in successive …