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Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship
Through four key themes, this book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain and the crosstalk between them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behaviour to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. Specially commissioned exp…
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- 9781461934394
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 662 pages).
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Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
"With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book a…
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- 0262315696
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- 1 online resource (xlv, 428 pages) :illustrations
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
A college campus offers an ideal setting for exploring and practicing sustainability. Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the dire threat it poses to the planet. They provide opportunities for both research and implementation; they have the capacity to engage students, staff, and faculty in collaborative enterprises that inspire campu…
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- 9780262321570
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Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern…
"Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landscape, in which hierarchical structures are giving way to systems of networked interdependence, changing ever…
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- 9781461950349
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages)
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Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…
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- 9780262306003
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- 1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects…
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with long-lasting radionuclides. Yet the damage from the massive fallout was largely impe…
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- 9780262325417
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- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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Reliability in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Meta-Meta-Analysis
Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly claim that brain images generated by new brain imaging technologies reflect, correlate, or represent cognitive processes. This book warns against these claims, arguing that, despite its utility in anatomic and physiological applications, brain imaging research has not provided consistent evidence for correlation with cognition. It bases this argument on a …
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- 9780262312042
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) :illustrations
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The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural resources, producing high levels of pollution, and concentrating harmful emissions precisely where the population is most concentrated. Cities appear to be parti…
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- 9780262314091
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461943273
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- 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages).
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Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of ""nature"" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326988
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- 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) :illustrations
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