Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality (Churchland Patricia S.)(Paperback)

Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality (Churchland Patricia S.)(Paperback)

A provocative new account of how morality evolved What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the

Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Performance (Kemp Rick)(Paperback)

'A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms identifies ... foundational principles of activity that link the three elements of theatre; Story, Space, and Time. The three meet in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor's body.' - from the Introduction Embodied Acting is

Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are (Davies Stephen)(Paperback)

Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up

Hear, My Son - Teaching And Learning In Proverbs 1-9 (Estes Daniel J. (Author))(Paperback / softback)

A presentation of what Proverbs 1-9 tells us about learning to live

The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language (Costa Albert)(Paperback)

'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher Spectator The definitive study of bilingualism and the

Hamlet Doctrine - Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing (Critchley Simon)(Pevná vazba)

What Shakespeare's greatest play tells us about the modern

What Animals Teach Us about Politics (Massumi Brian)(Paperback)

What Dementia Teaches Us About Love (Gerrard Nicci)(Paperback / softback)

Sum - Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Eagleman David)(Paperback / softback)

What happens to us when we die? And what does that tell us about being

Where Is My School? (Sage Alison)(Paperback)

This is a non-fiction information book about Kim, who tells us about the location of her school. The book shows the exact whereabouts of Kim's classroom within her school, and then expands to locate her school in her city, country and the world. Illustrations include labelled photographs, simple

We Know It When We See It - What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think (Masland Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Definitive pop science from a world

A Tiger Like Me (Engler Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Life is more fun when you're a tiger like me A little boy--um, no, a tiger --tells us all about what he gets up to on an ordinary day: how he wakes up in his tiger den, what he eats for breakfast at his feeding spot, and how little tigers feel when they are wide awake, hungry, thirsty, or in the

Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live (Sellars John)(Paperback / softback)

Gametek (Engelstein Geoffrey)(Paperback)

What games can teach us about life, the universe and ourselves. If you shuffle a deck of cards what are the odds that the sequence is unique? What is the connection between dice, platonic solids and Newton's theory of gravity? What is more random: a dice tower or a number generator? Can you

Sex by Numbers - What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour (Spiegelhalter David)(Paperback / softback)

Everything you ever wanted to know about sex (and

Sex Myth - Why Everything We're Told is Wrong (Magnanti Brooke)(Paperback / softback)

Why everything the media tells us about sex is wrong

Two Beats Ahead - What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity and Innovation (Panay Panos A.)(Paperback / softback)

Thinking in Pictures (Grandin Temple)(Paperback / softback)

A gifted and successful animal scientist, the author, who is autistic, tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way - somewhat akin to how animals think. She gives an insight into autism and its challenges using her observed understanding of the

Quantum Mechanics and Experience (Albert David Z.)(Paperback)

The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question

The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us about Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future (Robbins Jim)(Paperback)

No Visible Bruises - what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us (Snyder Rachel Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Fashion as Communication (Barnard Malcolm)(Paperback)

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways

Nothing: A Very Short Introduction (Close Frank)(Paperback)

This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about 'nothing.' What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space--'nothing'--exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and

The Resolution for Men (Kendrick Stephen)(Paperback)

'A man cannot be passive about what Scripture tells him to do for his family and expect to be found faithful to God in the end. He must see with spiritual eyes and realize that future generations are directly impacted by his daily decisions.' --The Resolution for Men The Resolution for Men is the