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Archaeologies of Remembrance
Death and Memory in Past Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past?
This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a...
The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky
The Fundamentals of Defectology (Abnormal Psychology and Learning Disabilities)
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
vi the text can engender. Of course, translations by scholars of advanced standing are not a novelty in modern scholarship. The Plenum translations ofVygotsky' s texts are appearing at a moment when authentic and authoritative English versions of them are rare-a moment when the frequency of works...
The Belief in a Just World
A Fundamental Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only...
Mood Disorders
Toward a New Psychobiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book we present a conceptually integrated approach to disorders of mood. These disorders are defined narrowly as the clinical syndromes of mania and melancholia. The latter is our particular focus, for the simple reason that it is more common and thus more is known about it. Our approach owes...
The Neuropsychology of Men
A Developmental Perspective from Theory to Evidence-based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This timely text examines normative and pathological brain/behavior connections across the male lifespan, and how these findings can best inform research, intervention, and prevention. It spotlights possible etiologies for male-dominated pathology, including academic deficits and disorders relating...
by Edward L. Deci
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As I begin to write this Preface, I feel a rush of excitement. I have now finished the book; my gestalt is coming into completion. Throughout the months that I have been writing this, I have, indeed, been intrinsically motivated. Now that it is finished I feel quite competent and self-determining...
by Dan Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reasoning and Unification over Conceptual Graphs is an exploration of automated reasoning and resolution in the expanding field of Conceptual Structures. Designed not only for computing scientists researching Conceptual Graphs, but also for anyone interested in exploring the design of knowledge bases,...
by Colin Graham, Kathryn E. Hare
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Understanding special sets of integers was classically of interest to Hadamard, Zygmund and others, and continues to be of interest today. This book is a modern treatment of the subject of interpolation and Sidon sets. It is a unique book, aimed at both new and experienced researchers. In particular,...
Theories of Alienation
Critical perspectives in philosophy and the social sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The original papers which appear in this volume were initially presented in a series of sessions of the Ad Hoc Group on Alienation Theory and Research at the 1974 World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, Canada. This group was organized by the editors as a result of their longstanding research and...
Theoretical Issues in Psychology
Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 1999 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001 brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former, a glance at the contents list of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Something instructive occurred in the process of entitling the present collection. Both editor and publisher sought a simple and succinct rubric for the various pieces of work. But they rapidly and reluctantly reached the consensus that, by either intellectual or marketing criteria, the inser tion...
Moonwalk with Your Eyes
A Pocket Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Of all the many things we can look at in the night sky, the Moon is one of the richest in its ever-changing detail, as changes in light and shadow daily transform what you can see of every feature. Whether you use binoculars, a small telescope or a large one, you will find the Moon offers new horizons...
by B. Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The usage of data communications and computer networks are ever in creasing. It is one of the few technological areas which brings benefits to most of the countries and the peoples of the world. Without it many industries could not exist. It is the objective of this book to discuss data communications...