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  • Beginnings

    de Shimon Edelman ...
    Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, and Edward Abbey walk into a bar on a small desert planet. "Is this really me?", murmurs Borges, staring at the mirror behind the counter. "Is this really a bar?", asks Dick. "Oh forget it, let's just go for a hike," says Abbey and heads back to the door. Those who go off into the desert do so, often, to leave the world of their past behind. What if there were a ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

    A Realist's View of the Human Condition

    de Shimon Edelman ...
    An expert on happiness presents an engaging and inspiring guide to making sense of the human condition via brief essays on concepts from action, to love, to thought, to youth.This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Consciousness Revolutions

    From Amoeba Awareness to Human Emancipation

    de Shimon Edelman ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book is about all things consciousness, great and small. It starts by pointing to the key characteristic of consciousness, without realizing which it cannot be understood: like everything else about the mind, it is fundamentally a kind of computation. Among many other matters, this explains: how it is that we share some aspects of consciousness with bacteria; how it can arise in artificial ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Language Universals

    de Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman ...
    Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word order. Nonetheless, languages do share certain regularities in how they are structured and used. The ... Leer más

    $79.19 USD

  • The Happiness of Pursuit

    What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life

    de Shimon Edelman ...
    When fishing for happiness, catch and release. Remember these seven words -- they are the keys to being happy. So says Shimon Edelman, an expert on psychology and the mind.In The Happiness of Pursuit, Edelman offers a fundamental understanding of pleasure and joy via the brain. Using the concept of the mind as a computing device, he unpacks how the human brain is highly active, involved in ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Only the Animals

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    de Ceridwen Dovey ...
    Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be humanThe souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench on the Western Front, a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany, a dog seeks enlightenment. A ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Abundance

    Narrative Essays Old and New

    de Annie Dillard ...
    In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author herself. With a foreword by Geoff Dyer.“A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • A Philosophy of Loneliness

    de Lars Svendsen ...
    Traducido por Kerri Pierce ...
    Loneliness is a difficult subject to address, because it has such negative connotations. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness: everyone is lonely at some point in their lives. You can belonely in a crowd or at home, outdoors or in an empty church, and countless songs have been written about the condition. For many people, loneliness can significantly impact their ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Best Travel Writing 2011

    True Stories from Around the World

    Edición de James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly ...
    Series series Best Travel Writing
    The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Critical History and Philosophy of Psychology

    Diversity of Context, Thought, and Practice

    de Thomas Teo, Angelina Baydala, Richard T. G. Walsh ...
    In line with the British Psychological Society's recent recommendations for teaching the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural and social elements that influenced psychology's development. The authors demonstrate that psychology is both a human (i.e. psychoanalytic or phenomenological) and natural (i.e. cognitive) science, exploring ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Time

    de Eva Hoffman ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books seriesTime has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these days we are tampering with time in ways that affect ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science

    de Stephen Van Evera ...
    Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD