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  • Human Lifeworlds

    The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution

    Edited by David Dunér, Göran Sonesson ...
    This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Meaning, Mind and Communication

    Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics

    Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Göran Sonesson, Piotr Konderak ...
    This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics – the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics – from a multitude of established and younger scholars. The chapters deal with the interaction between language and other semiotic resources, the role of consciousness ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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    by Ambrose Bierce ...
    In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed—enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang. ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

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  • The Story of English

    How the English language conquered the world

    by Philip Gooden ...
    Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower.Worldwide some 380 million people speak English as a first language and some 600 million ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume

    Edited by David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Filthy English: The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing

    The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing

    by Peter Silverton ...
    When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Hungarian: An Essential Grammar

    by Carol Rounds ...
    Series series Routledge Essential Grammars
    Hungarian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of this fascinating language.All students of Hungarian, whether beginners or at intermediate and advanced levels, will welcome its clarity of presentation and jargon-free explanations. It is ideal for those studying independently or following a taught course.Topics include:verbal prefixesaspect and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Robotics in Germany and Japan

    Philosophical and Technical Perspectives

    by Bernhard Irrgang, Michael Funk ...
    Series Book 5 - Dresden Philosophy of Technology Studies / Dresdner Studien zur Philosophie der Technologie
    Germany and Japan are two of the worldwide leading countries in robotics research. Robotics as a key technology introduces technical as well as philosophical and cultural challenges. How can we use robots that have a human-like appearance in everyday life? Are there limits to technology? What are the cultural similarities and differences between Germany and Japan? These are some of the questions ... Read more

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  • Dimensions of the Logical

    A Hermeneutic Inquiry

    by Friedrich Hogemann ...
    Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. Misch’s notion of a logic of life considers the Word in the plenitude of its great powers. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study via Misch’s anthropological conception on to the phenomenological ontology of Martin Heidegger and Josef Koenig’s investigation of ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • English Is Not Easy

    A Visual Guide to the Language

    by Luci Gutiérrez ...
    A cheeky, sophisticated, and strikingly illustrated guide that leaves generic English reference books in the dustWhen prominent Barcelona-based illustrator Luci Gutiérrez found herself tuning out in English class, she used her love of drawing to help retain what she’d learned. Ditching the kind of bland and useless phrases that fill most English textbooks, Gutiérrez uses whimsical characters, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD