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Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. In this fascinating book, Ray Jackendoff emphasizes the grammatical commonalities across languages, both spoken and signed, and discusses...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Is change possible? Everyone who has tried and failed, wished they could be happier, or has been told they were too old to learn something, has wondered why we just seem to be stuck with ourselves. But this amazing and hopeful audio book shows us that it is not only possible for us to control our brains but also for us to rewire them. In late 2004, the Mind and Life Institute brought Western Scientists together with the Dalai Lama and other distinguished...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the line, the smallest imaginable objects in nature? Can the universe be divided into infinitely smaller units in the same way the universe is ever-expanding? Alan Lightman explores these questions in his characteristic accessible and lyrical prose, considering the igniting element behind consciousness, the origin of life, the anatomy...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With her knack for making science easy to understand, Temple Grandin explains different types of thinkers, who are good with language, and visual thinkers, who think in pictures and patterns. You will discover all kinds of minds and how we need to work together to create solutions to help solve real-world problems."--
Author
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This booklet offers countercultural advice to graduates: "Do not follow your dreams. Do not march to the beat of your own drummer. And whatever you do, do not be true to yourself." The world says you are what you feel. The world says your is equals ought. The world says you must find yourself, be true to yourself, and express yourself. Jesus gave us a different and better way to live. "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into...
Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
We are on the brink of understanding ancient mysteries: how we know, what governs our nature, what makes a person different from a thing. In the last decade, more than twenty disciplines dealing with every aspect of the brain have contributed to a revolution in the neurosciences--a revolution as significant, in the view of many observers, as the Galilean and Copernican revolutions in mathematics and physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence-plant, animal, human, artificial-and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos"--