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Handbook of Vowels and Vowel Disorders
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 84.95In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants. But what vowels are, how they differ from one another, how they vary among speakers, and how they are subject to disorder, are questions that require a closer examination. This Handbook presents a comprehensive, cogent, and up-to-date analysis of the... more...
Who Was Mrs Willett?
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 17.99Here is an account of mentality and human experience, written for a multi-disciplinary readership. The focus is on how mind, consciousness and selves inter-relate, extending into exploration of ideas about the nature of awareness and a search for relevant evidence.'Consciousness studies' has reached something of a crossroads nowadays. Computational... more...
The Life of the Mind
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 80.00This detailed look at the development of microgenetic theory provides a comprehensive and coherent model of cognitive processing in the brain, based on patterns of breakdown in pathology. In so doing, it illustrates the clinical record that supports and documents microgenetic theory, and presents a basis for future work in the study of the brain. Coverage... more...
Living Independently on the Autism Spectrum
F+W Media 2013; US$ 15.95Shape your way in the world and overcome any challenge! Living on your own for the very first time can be exciting yet nerve-wracking--you'll search for roommates, interview for jobs, manage finances, and form relationships. But adjusting to this new life can seem especially difficult when you're on the Autism Spectrum. Drawing on her experiences,... more...
Invisible Heroes
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships?or a tragedy like 9/11?all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors become ?invisible heroes,?... more...
El cerebro al descubierto
Editorial Kairos 2007; US$ 10.99Using clinical studies, this exploration of the human brain proposes that its development is a continuous process. From the point of view of genetics to a more practical approach, such as understanding child development or the process of aging, the book illustrates the importance of gaining a deeper understanding of this "great unknown" in the medical... more...
The Postmodern Brain
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 102.00This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought. A nonlinear dynamical model of brain states is viewed as an autopoietic, autorhoetic, self-organizing, self-tuning eruption under multiple constraints and guided by an overarching optimization principle which insures conservation... more...
Signs, Mind, and Reality
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 165.00The book presents a new science of semiotic linguistics. The goal of semiotic linguistics is to discover what characterizes language as an intermediary between the mind and reality so that language creates the picture of reality we perceive. The cornerstone of semiotic linguistics is the discovery and resolution of language antinomies -contradictions... more...
The Psychology of Love
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableThis volume brings together Freud?s main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality without fantasy, conscious or unconscious - have changed the ways we think about erotic life. In these papers Freud develops his now famous theories about... more...
Oxford Handbook of Face Perception
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 159.99The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A person's identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans also display a surprising degree of consistency in... more...









