A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital markets. In Too Sensational, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice …
An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech."How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essent…
A Bradford book."An essay on the importance of touch to children's growth and development and to the physical and mental well-being of people of all ages.The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy, well into childhood. Touch is critical for children's …
Rev. and expanded version of papers, essays, etc. published during the last twenty years; cf. v. 1, p. 6."A Bradford book."In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention a…
A Bradford book."In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches t…
In Invisible Mind, Lasana Harris takes a social neuroscience approach to explaining the worst of human behavior. How can a person take part in racially motivated violence and then tenderly cradle a baby or lovingly pet a puppy? Harris argues that our social cognition—the ability to infer the mental states of another agent—is flexible. That is, we can either engage or withhold social cogniti…
A Bradford book.""This book has its origins in a meeting, entitled "Toward replacement parts for the brain: intracranial implantations of hardward models of neural circuitry" that took place in Washington, D.C. in August 1989"--Preface.The continuing development of implantable neural prostheses signals a new era in bioengineering and neuroscience research. This collection of essays outlines cur…
A Bradford book."Papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Arizona in April of 1994.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.