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    George Sand (Unabridged)

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    by Bertha Thomas ...
    Narrated by Wade Dorton, Jacob Beck, William Snider, Doris Bensch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    Embark on an immersive literary journey with the unabridged audiobook "George Sand" by Bertha Thomas, a captivating exploration of the life and legacy of the iconic French novelist. As the velvety tones of the narrator weave through the pages of Sand's tumultuous existence, listeners will be transported to 19th-century France, where this trailblazing literary figure defied societal norms. Bertha ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds

    Edited by Kristin Andrews, Jacob Beck ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major topic in philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising nearly fifty chapters by a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • A Natural History of Human Thinking

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Tomasello maintains that our ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William Ramsey ...
    Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

    by Robert C. Richardson ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Developmental Psychology

    A Student's Handbook

    by Margaret Harris, George Butterworth ...
    Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook is a major textbook that provides an up-to-date account of theory and research in the rapidly-changing field of child development. Margaret Harris and George Butterworth have produced an outstanding volume that includes recent research from Britain, Europe, and the USA.The text is designed for undergraduate students who have little or no prior ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • How Things Shape the Mind

    A Theory of Material Engagement

    by Lambros Malafouris ...
    An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in the head.” This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • More than Nature Needs

    Language, Mind, and Evolution

    by Derek Bickerton ...
    The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selection. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but his ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Evolution of Language

    by W. Tecumseh Fitch ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Developmental Psychology

    How Nature and Nurture Interact

    by Keith Richardson ...
    This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture debate and present the reader with new ways of thinking about these issues. The book begins with ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Animal Minds

    Edited by Robert W. Lurz ...
    This volume is a collection of fourteen essays by leading philosophers on issues concerning the nature, existence, and our knowledge of animal minds. The nature of animal minds has been a topic of interest to philosophers since the origins of philosophy, and recent years have seen significant philosophical engagement with the subject. However, there is no volume that represents the current state ... Read more

    $40.99 USD