Language and Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought (Braine David)(Pevná vazba)

Language and Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought (Braine David)(Pevná vazba)

Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, David Braine draws on insights from all these fields, sifting through the discordant schools of linguists. He concludes that one extended logic or 'integrated semantic syntax'

Livewired - David Eagleman

A revolutionary new understanding of the human brain and its changeable nature.The brain is a dynamic, electric, living forest. It is not rigidly fixed but instead constantly modifies its patterns - adjusting to remember, adapting to new conditions, building expertise. Your neural networks are not

Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Inference (Delamain Catherine)(Paperback)

Suitable for teachers and speech and language therapists working in the fields of language and literacy, and concerned with developing inferencing skills in their students, this book contains a collection of 300 texts which are graded, and lead the student gradually from simple

Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Eisenstein Jacob)(Pevná vazba)

A survey of computational methods for understanding, generating, and manipulating human language, which offers a synthesis of classical representations and algorithms with contemporary machine learning techniques.This textbook provides a technical perspective on natural language processing--methods

Bright and Bold Human Body: The Brain and Nervous System (Howell Izzi)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the human body in glorious

Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness (Zeki Semir)(Paperback)

Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity (Friederici Angela D.)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex

Thoreau and the Language of Trees (Higgins Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow

Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development - Essays in honour of Bencie Woll(Pevná vazba)

Neuropsychology (Goldstein Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

In this volume of the series Human Brain Function: Assessment and Rehabilitation we cover the area of how brain function is assessed with behavioral or neuropsycholog- ical instruments. These assessments are typically conducted by clinical neuropsy- chologists or behavioral neurologists, and so we

Mary Douglas: Understanding Social Thought and Conflict (6. Perri)(Paperback)

Mary Douglas's innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces

Wittgenstein and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Action (Verheggen Claudine)(Pevná vazba)

Wittgenstein and Davidson are two of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century philosophy. However, whereas Wittgenstein is often regarded as a deflationary philosopher, Davidson is considered to be a theory builder and systematic philosopher par excellence. Consequently,

The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (Botz-Bornstein Thorsten)(Pevná vazba)

Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the real world. The authors of this volume suggest that the humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence procedures on a

Language and Literacy in Refugee Families (Duran Chatwara Suwannamai)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis'. With a focus on language and literacy

Daughters of The Labyrinth (Padel Ruth)(Pevná vazba)

An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of instability, about love, loss and memory, parents and children, the fragility of life, and the forgotten Jews of

Operations and Supply Chain Management (Collier David a.)(Pevná vazba)

Gain a clear understanding of the fundamental concepts and applications behind operations and supply chain management with the reader-friendly approach in Collier/Evans' popular OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, 2E. The authors present detailed, solved problems throughout this edition to

Language, Syntax, and the Natural Sciences (Gallego ngel J.)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of human language from the perspective of the natural sciences, this outstanding book brings together leading specialists to discuss the scientific connection of language to disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and

Brain Signals: Physics and Mathematics of Meg and Eeg (Ilmoniemi Risto J.)(Pevná vazba)

A unified treatment of the generation and analysis of brain-generated electromagnetic fields.In Brain Signals, Risto Ilmoniemi and Jukka Sarvas present the basic physical and mathematical principles of magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG), describing what kind of

Linguistics for the Age of AI (McShane Marjorie)(Pevná vazba)

A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on

Genius Within - Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence (Adam David)(Pevná vazba)

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't

Indigenous Language Acquisition, Maintenance, and Loss and Current Language Policies (Okamura Toru)(Pevná vazba)

Presents research on the diverse policies, influences, and frameworks of indigenous languages in various regions of the world. The book discusses the maintenance, attrition, or loss of indigenous languages; language status in society; language policies; and the grammatical characteristics of

Welsh Mod: Our Story - Documenting the roots and the revival of the subculture in Wales (Mahoney Claire)(Pevná vazba)

The Human Face of Water Security (Devlaeminck David)(Pevná vazba)

This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual. Beginning with the big picture, this book aims to

Human Resource Management in Context: Insights, Strategy and Solutions (Farnham David)(Paperback)

HR functions within both internal and external contexts. The understanding of both contexts is crucial for comprehending how and why they drive HR strategies and practices in organizations, as well as the rules and structures within which they work. Built around five major themes which impact upon