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The Embodied Mind : Cognitive Science and Human Experience
A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262285476
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- 1 online resource (390 pages)
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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse
This is a collection of theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269742
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- 1 online resource (x, 465 pages) :illustrations.
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Life Support: The Environment and Human Health
A solutions-oriented examination of the connections between environmental degradation and human health.Life Support brings together the best medical information available on the implications for human health of the global environmental crisis. Written by prominent physicians and public health experts who see environmental degradation as a serious threat to public health, it provides essential i…
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- 1
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- 9780262279338
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Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language
How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that makes use of semantica…
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- 1
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- 9780262275729
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Timing of Behavior: Neural, Psychological, and Computational Perspectives
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282567
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- 1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) :illustrations
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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Concept Structuring Systems
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…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262284660
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- 1 online resource (viii, 565 pages) :illustrations.
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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring
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…
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- 9780262284677
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- 1 online resource (viii, 495 pages) :illustrations.
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The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
"A Bradford book."The Cerebral Code proposes a bold new theory for how Darwin's evolutionary processes could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time scale of thought and action. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you're awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262269711
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- 1 online resource (256 pages) :illustrations
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Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding…
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- 9780262279819
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- 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :illustrations.
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Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investiga…
For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific…
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- 9780262276641
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- 1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) :illustrations
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