Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521548076
The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought.
Author : Mauro Mancia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2007-04-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8847005507
Recent scientific studies have brought significant advances in the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. This book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: emotions and the right hemisphere, serotonin and depression. It is a unique tool for professionals and students in these fields, and for operators of allied disciplines, such as psychology and psychotherapy.
Author : Felix Gilbert
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393301236
In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.
Author : Nicolai Rubinstein
Publisher :
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9780835794589
Author : Valeria Ugazio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135906769
The gap between psychotherapeutic practice and clinical theory is ever widening. Therapists still don’t know what role interpersonal relations play in the development of the most common psychopathologies. Valeria Ugazio bridges this gap by examining phobias, obsessive-compulsions, eating disorders, and depression in the context of the family, using an intersubjective approach to personality. Her concept of “semantic polarities” gives a groundbreaking perspective to the construction of meaning in the family and other interpersonal contexts. At no point is theory left in the wasteland of abstraction. The concreteness of the many case studies recounted, and examples taken from well-known novels, will allow readers to immediately connect the topics discussed with their own experience.
Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307817156
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780719067235
Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1997
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Zdravko Radman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110867834
Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312423131
"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
