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The spell of the sensuous
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David Abram |
[In this book, the author] draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician … |
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Making Thinking Visible
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Ron Ritchhart |
"Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rath… |
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Beyond the Brain
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Louise Barrett |
"When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms … |
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Language and action in cognitive neuroscience
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Yann Coello,Angela Bartolo |
"This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language p… |
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The number sense
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Stanislas Dehaene |
"Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. No… |
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The wandering mind
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Michael C. Corballis |
"The point of this piece of writing is to get you to pick up this book. But what if it takes us a few sentences to explain? What if we need to go into some detail? Are you even going to be paying att… |
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Ethnographies of Reason
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Eric Livingston |
Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, "Ethnographies of Reason" is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it il… |
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Mental models
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P. N. Johnson-Laird |
This book offers a unified theory of the major propertries of mind, including comprehension, inference, and consciousness. The author argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental repli… |
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The Language Instinct ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science)
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Steven Pinker |
From the Preface...
I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kin… |
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
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Fluid Analogies Research Group,Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificia… |
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
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Richard J., Jr. Heuer |
ix, 216 pages : 21 cm |
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How we decide
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Jonah Lehrer |
How We Decide provides insight into how people make decisions. The book approaches this question from a scientific perspective, and uses real world examples to help the reader understand. |
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Getting to Got It! Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn
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Betty K. Garner |
Explore the hidden reasons students struggle and what teachers can do to help them become self-directed learners. |
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