The silence of Dean Maitland : a novel

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Barbara's brothers

About a mile-and-a-lialf from the picturesque sea-coast of the west of England, and half a mile from the flourishing town of St. Hilda, stood a comfortable family mansion, substantially built of red brick, and shut in behind solid walls, that had evidently not been built yesterday. There was a rather extensive garden enclosed behind these walls, a garden gay with flowers during the greater part…

The cognitive-emotional brain: From interactions to integration

The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioural, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this book, Luiz Pessoa moves beyond the debate over functional specialization, describing the many ways that emo…

Memoirs of Duke de Richelieu

History of Mme. la marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV. n6e Poisson, wife of M. le Normand d'Etioles. — Binet, a relative of hers, procures her for the king. — Uneasiness of Boyer and of the pious party. — Two parties were produced at the court, that of the favorites and that of the dauphin. — Their reciprocal views and interests. — Portrait of M. d'Etioles, husband of the fav…

Addiction and responsibility

This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors dicuss questions concerning whether or not we are responsible for our own addictions and what responsibilities others have to help.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Parasites, pathogens, and progress: Diseases and economic development

In this work, the authors combine biological and economic perspectives to suggest an innovative view of American history with implications for how we understand history as a whole.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Taking [a]part: The politics and aesthetics of participation in experience-ce…

Title appears as: Taking [a]part.In Taking [A]part, John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a series of boundary-pushing research projects in human-computer interaction (HCI) in which the design of digital technology is used to inquire into participative experience. McCarthy and Wright view all of these projects -- which range from the public and performative to the private and interpersonal --…

Why have children?: The ethical debate

"In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children i…

Julius the street boy : or, Life in the west

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History of civilization in Europe : from the fall of the Roman Empire to the …

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