Автор: Cobb Matthew Название: Idea of the Brain ISBN: 178125589X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781255896 Издательство: Profile Цена: 4554.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery. For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of ever-increasing knowledge of biology, Cobb shows how our ideas about the brain have been shaped by each era's most significant technologies. Today we might think the brain is like a supercomputer. In the past, it has been compared to a telegraph, a telephone exchange, or some kind of hydraulic system. What will we think the brain is like tomorrow, when new technology arises? The result is an essential read for anyone interested in the complex processes that drive science and the forces that have shaped our marvelous brains.
Автор: Maltby, Richard (matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor Of Screen Studies, Flinders University, South Australia) Название: Decoding the movies ISBN: 1905816448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905816446 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 34945.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book "decodes" 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby`s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining the circumstances of their production and consumption.
Описание: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena houses one of the major European collections of incantation bowls. Forty bowls bear texts written in the Jewish, Manichaean Syriac or Mandaic scripts, and most of the rest (some twenty-five objects) in the Pahlavi script or in various pseudoscripts. The present volume comprises new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) bowl texts based on high-resolution photographs taken by the authors, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining material. New readings are often supported with close-up photographs. The volume is intended to serve as a basis for further study of magic in late Antiquity and of the Late Eastern Aramaic dialects in which the texts were composed.
Автор: Cobb Jelani, Guariglia Matthew Название: The Essential Kerner Commission Report ISBN: 1631498924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631498923 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book--a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its time. Yet Columbia University professor and New Yorker correspondent Jelani Cobb argues that this prescient report, which examined more than a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967, has been woefully neglected.
In an enlightening new introduction, Cobb reveals how these uprisings were used as political fodder by Republicans and demonstrates that this condensed edition of the Report should be essential reading at a moment when protest movements are challenging us to uproot racial injustice. A detailed examination of economic inequality, race, and policing, the Report has never been more relevant, and demonstrates to devastating effect that it is possible for us to be entirely cognizant of history and still tragically repeat it.
Автор: Cobb Matthew Название: Resistance ISBN: 1847391567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847391568 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A gripping and insightful history of the French Resistance and the men and women who braved terrible odds and horrifying repression to oppose Nazi occupation during World War II. Based on personal stories, eye-witness accounts and archival material, this is a vivid popular tale which will excite the ordinary reader and those with an interest in military history. `The Resistance` goes behind the tales of derring-do and explains the forces that shaped the fight against the Nazis, providing a deeper explanation of events.
Автор: Cobb Matthew Название: Idea of the Brain ISBN: 178125589X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781255896 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 4554.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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