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Perception
Brian J. Rogers analyses the psychological and philosophical aspects of perception, and argues that what we see is not what we perceive. He investigates recent insights gained from the use of imaging techniques, and the attempts to model perceptual processes in AI systems.
The Cambridge Companion to Proust
This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's work.
Challenging Leadership the Skolkovo Approach
Leadership in todays world is a subject of much debate and quite rightly so. Since our world is one which is constantly evolving, so must our thinking on leadership and the behaviour to which it gives rise. Drawing on the authors experience and collaborations while teaching at Skolkovo, Moscow School of Management over the past 5 years, this book is a gathering together of reflections on a wide range of diverse topics within the subject of leadership i.e. emotions, energy, ethics, corruption...The intention is to simulate thinking, encourage debate and provide a platform for new ideas for the future.
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the frontier of research into how and why networks they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive world, and how they shape collective decision making, opinion formation, and diffusion dynamics. From a methodological perspective, the contributors to this volume devote attention to theory, field experiments, laboratory experiments, and econometrics. Theoretical work in network formation, games played on networks, repeated games, and the interaction between linking and behavior is synthesized. A number of chapters are devoted to studying social process mediated by networks. Topics here include ...
The Cadet
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Philosophy As Fiction : Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning such traditionally philosophical issues as knowledge, self-deception, selfhood, love, friendship, and art--and literary, in that its situations are imaginary and its stylization inescapably prominent, Proust's novel presents us with a conundrum. How should it be read? Can the two discursive structures co-exist, or must philosophy inevitably undermine literature (by sapping the narrative of it...
The Evidence for Evolution
According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it’s no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today’s biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution—natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow—but say little about the evidence that evolution happens at all. How do we know that species change? Has there really been enough time for evolution to operate? With The Evidence for Evolution, Alan R. Rogers provides an elegant, straightforward text that details the evidence for evolution. Rogers covers different levels of evolution, from within-species changes, which are much less challenging to see and believe, to much lar...
Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding
Pediatric Swallowing and Feeding: Assessment and Management, Third Edition provides information to practitioners interested in and involved with children who demonstrate swallowing and feeding disorders. Since the 2002 publication of the second edition, there has been an exponential increase in the number of medically fragile and complex children with swallowing/feeding disorders. A corresponding proliferation in the related basic and clinical research has resulted in the increased appreciation of the complicated inter-relationships between structures and systems that contribute to swallowing/feeding development, function, and disorders. Case studies throughout the book provide examples for ...
Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine E-Book
Now in its fourth edition, this definitive and popular introduction to human behaviour in the context of health and illness includes three new chapters, many new contributors and a new co-editor. It is arranged in nine sections to cover the core concepts of psychology and sociology as they apply to medicine. - The life cycle - Development of the person - Society and health - Preventing illness and promoting health - Illness, behaviour and the doctor-patient encounter - Illness and disability - Coping with illness and disability - Hoe do health services work - How do you fit into all this? - Topics presented as self-contained double-page spreads. - Cases throughout to reinforce understanding of important concepts. - Boxes and discussion points throughout. - The authors comprise psychologists, sociologists and doctors. - Highly illustrated - 48 new contributors - New co-editor, Gerry Humphris - 3 new chapters: Malnutrition and obesity Urban nature health and well-being LGBT Health
The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux
The Battle of Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays by leading scholars in the field. Part One includes figures and topics associated with Descartes, the chief idealist in the story, including Leibniz, Spinoza, and Malebranche; Part Two includes figures and topics that fall on the Gassendist materialist side of the battle, including Hobbes, Bayle, and Locke. In organizing these varied discussions along these themes and lines, something more than the sum of the parts emerges. The reader will gain a breadth and depth of insight into the battle of ideas in early modern thought—historical, philosophical, and interpretive. Contributors are: Margaret Atherton, Martha Brandt Bolten, Patricia Easton, Lorne Falkenstein, Nicolas Jolley, José Maia Neto, Steven Nadler, Alan Nelson, Lawrence Nolan, Donald Rutherford, Tad Schmultz, Kurt Smith, Julie Walsh, and Richard Watson.
