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Mysteries of the Social Brain

Mysteries of the Social Brain

Bruce L. Miller; Virginia Sturm

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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Mysteries of the Social Brain describes the scientific underpinnings of human behavior and values. Through the retelling of fascinating clinical stories of people with neurological conditions, this book explores the parts of the brain that allow humans to thrive as social and creative beings. The authors reveal the relevance of our brain circuits to our well-being—and the well-being of our societies—and show what happens when changes in our brain circuitry drive changes in empathy, altruism, moral beliefs, and creativity.By integrating perspectives from neurology, psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the stories in this book offer novel insights into the inner workings of the social brain and reveal groundbreaking findings from work in frontotemporal dementia, emotion, and the science of human values. This book showcases the novel discovery that creativity can emerge when there is decline in the brain’s language systems, a finding that highlights the robust, yet underappreciated connections between science and art. Readers will learn about the biological basis of social behavior as well as simple steps that they can take to improve the functioning of their own social brains.Miller and Sturm take us on an engaging dive into the field of behavioral neurology and neuroscience, exploring what we can learn from people with neurological conditions, and revealing the ways that neuroscience can change societies for the better. It will captivate general readers as well as clinicians and scientists who are interested in human social behavior, cognition, and emotion.
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The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs

The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs

Bruce M. Hood

HarperOne
2010
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"In an account chock full of real-world examples reinforced by experimental research, Hood's marvelous book is an important contribution to the psychological literature that is revealing the actuality of our very irrational human nature." -- Science In the vein of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Mary Roach's Spook, and Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, The Science of Superstition uses hard science to explain pervasive irrational beliefs and behaviors: from the superstitious rituals of sports stars, to the depreciated value of houses where murders were committed, to the adoration of Elvis.
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The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

Bruce Hood

Oxford University Press
2013
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Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable. Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that this notion of the independent, coherent self is an illusion - it is not what it seems. Reality as we perceive it is not something that objectively exists, but something that our brains construct from moment to moment, interpreting, summarizing, and substituting information along the way. Like a science fiction movie, we are living in a matrix that is our mind.In The Self Illusion, Dr. Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us to become social animals dependent on each other. He explains that self is the product of our relationships and interactions with others, and it exists only in our brains. The author argues, however, that though the self is an illusion, it is one that humans cannot live without.But things are changing as our technology develops and shapes society. The social bonds and relationships that used to take time and effort to form are now undergoing a revolution as we start to put our self online. Social networking activities such as blogging, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter threaten to change the way we behave. Social networking is fast becoming socialization on steroids. The speed and ease at which we can form alliances and relationships is outstripping the same selection processes that shaped our self prior to the internet era. This book ventures into unchartered territory to explain how the idea of the self will never be the same again in the online social world.
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Brain-Compatible Learning for the Block

Brain-Compatible Learning for the Block

Williams R. Bruce; Dunn Steven E.

SAGE Publications Inc
2008
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Brain-Compatible Learning for the Block 2e, provides middle school and high school educators with practical ideas and strategies for teaching effectively within block schedules. The authors explore how to use block scheduling to support brain-based learning and show teachers how to structure lesson planning, instruction, and assessment to take advantage of extended class periods. The revised edition offers updated research related to brain-based learning and block scheduling, includes expanded guidelines for developing extended lesson plans, and provides additional strategies for making the most of block scheduling.
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Re-Animator - Die Philosophie des Todes: Eine filmphilosophische Analyse der Trilogie von Stuart Gordon und Brian Yuzna

Re-Animator - Die Philosophie des Todes: Eine filmphilosophische Analyse der Trilogie von Stuart Gordon und Brian Yuzna

Markus Brüchler

Colla Gen Verlag
2025
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"Re-Animator - Die Philosophie des Todes" erkundet die ber hmte Horrorreihe von H. P. Lovecraft bis zu den filmischen Interpretationen von Stuart Gordon und Brian Yuzna aus einer ungew hnlich tiefen, wissenschaftlich reflektierten Perspektive. Das Buch untersucht die Figur des Herbert West als Sinnbild moderner Hybris: ein Mensch, der den Tod berwinden will und dabei jede Grenze der Moral, Wissenschaft und Identit t berschreitet. Auf Basis filmwissenschaftlicher Theorien, psychologischer Modelle und philosophischer Konzepte bietet das Werk eine umfassende Analyse der zentralen Motive der Reihe, von grotesker K rperlichkeit ber Themen wie Bewusstsein, Macht und wissenschaftliche Obsession bis hin zu Fragen nach dem Wesen des Lebens selbst. Die wichtigsten Szenen der Filme werden pr zise interpretiert, kulturhistorisch eingeordnet und mit Erkenntnissen aus Psychoanalyse, Anthropologie und sthetik verkn pft. Das Buch richtet sich an Leserinnen und Leser, die mehr als reine Hintergrundfakten erwarten. Es bietet eine anspruchsvolle, dennoch zug ngliche Deutung eines Mythos, der das Horrorgenre bis heute pr gt, und zeigt, weshalb Re-Animator weit ber Splatter-Ikonografie hinausreicht, und zwar als d stere Erz hlung ber den menschlichen Drang, das Unbegreifliche kontrollieren zu wollen, und ber den Preis, den man daf r zahlt.
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Re-Animator - Die Philosophie des Todes: Eine filmphilosophische Analyse der Trilogie von Stuart Gordon und Brian Yuzna

Re-Animator - Die Philosophie des Todes: Eine filmphilosophische Analyse der Trilogie von Stuart Gordon und Brian Yuzna

Markus Brüchler

Colla Gen Verlag
2025
nidottu
"Re-Animator - Die Philosophie des Todes" erkundet die ber hmte Horrorreihe von H. P. Lovecraft bis zu den filmischen Interpretationen von Stuart Gordon und Brian Yuzna aus einer ungew hnlich tiefen, wissenschaftlich reflektierten Perspektive. Das Buch untersucht die Figur des Herbert West als Sinnbild moderner Hybris: ein Mensch, der den Tod berwinden will und dabei jede Grenze der Moral, Wissenschaft und Identit t berschreitet. Auf Basis filmwissenschaftlicher Theorien, psychologischer Modelle und philosophischer Konzepte bietet das Werk eine umfassende Analyse der zentralen Motive der Reihe, von grotesker K rperlichkeit ber Themen wie Bewusstsein, Macht und wissenschaftliche Obsession bis hin zu Fragen nach dem Wesen des Lebens selbst. Die wichtigsten Szenen der Filme werden pr zise interpretiert, kulturhistorisch eingeordnet und mit Erkenntnissen aus Psychoanalyse, Anthropologie und sthetik verkn pft. Das Buch richtet sich an Leserinnen und Leser, die mehr als reine Hintergrundfakten erwarten. Es bietet eine anspruchsvolle, dennoch zug ngliche Deutung eines Mythos, der das Horrorgenre bis heute pr gt, und zeigt, weshalb Re-Animator weit ber Splatter-Ikonografie hinausreicht, und zwar als d stere Erz hlung ber den menschlichen Drang, das Unbegreifliche kontrollieren zu wollen, und ber den Preis, den man daf r zahlt.
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World Brain

World Brain

H.G. Wells; Bruce Sterling

MIT Press
2021
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In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain. In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a World Brain, as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of The War of the Worlds and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology. Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wells's work, the World Brain didn't happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterling's words, a hypothetical super-gadget). Wells's optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as na vely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.
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The Committee

The Committee

Bryan William Marshall; Bruce C. Wolpe

The University of Michigan Press
2021
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For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the most powerful committees in Congress—Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer’s look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider’s view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. In this new edition, the authors revisit the relationship between the executive and Congress in the wake of the sweeping changes wrought by the Trump administration, as well as thoughts about how that relationship will change again as President Biden faces a 117th Congress that is strikingly similar to Obama’s 111th. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman’s role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics.
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The Committee

The Committee

Bryan William Marshall; Bruce C. Wolpe

The University of Michigan Press
2018
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For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the most powerful committees in Congress—Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer’s look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider’s view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman’s role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics.
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The Committee

The Committee

Bryan William Marshall; Bruce C. Wolpe

The University of Michigan Press
2018
sidottu
For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the most powerful committees in Congress—Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer’s look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With its insider’s view of the rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform, tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory and literature of political science. The authors engage with the important questions that political science asks about committee power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the House. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a chairman’s role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both novice and die-hard readers of politics.
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On Ethnography

On Ethnography

Shirley Brice Heath; Brian V. Street

Teachers' College Press
2008
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The authors weave together narratives of practice and theory that draw on their own field work and that of a novice ethnographer. Their stories take us outside the usual progression of how-to-do-ethnography, which moves from research question to data collection and analysis to publication. Readers learn of the motivations and mishaps behind the authors' own classic ethnographic studies of language, multimodal literacies, and community practices. The authors use their stories to illustrate the power of curiosity, connection, and continuity in ethnographic pursuits. Keeping language and literacy the central concern, this volume offers practical ways for ethnographers to sustain their attention to a constant comparative perspective and to patterns of co-occurrence in language structures, uses, and values. Appropriate for new and experienced researchers, this readable volume: Illustrates three primary learning environments for the work of ethnographers: self-directed learning, informal communities of learners, and instructional settings within formal education. Stresses that "doing ethnography" involves engagement with public life and cannot be separated out as an academic activity. Includes examples of ethnographic studies in Australia, Iran, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Corporate Social Strategy

Corporate Social Strategy

Husted Bryan W.; Allen David Bruce

Cambridge University Press
2010
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Can good-will be good business? Firms are increasingly called upon to address matters such as poverty and human rights violations. The demand for corporate social responsibility (CSR) is directed mainly at top management in multinational corporations who are reminded that, in addition to helping to make the world a better place, their commitment to social action will be rewarded by lasting customer loyalty and profits. But is it true that firms that engage in social action will be rewarded with a good name, competitive advantage, superior profits and corporate sustainability? What if it is true for some firms and not for others? This book addresses these and other questions by explaining the how and why of creating value and competitive advantage through corporate social action. It shows how and when firms can develop successful corporate social strategies that establish strong commitments to shareholders, employees and other stakeholders.
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God's Peace and King's Peace

God's Peace and King's Peace

Bruce R. O'Brien

University of Pennsylvania Press
1999
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Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by "English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law," recounting "the rules of their laws and customs" for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized. Looking through the lens of this important-if spurious-treatise, God's Peace and King's Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the century in which the common law was born. Bruce R. O'Brien compares the Leges Edwardi to other memorials of legal policy and practice from before and after 1066, in both Normandy and England, and advances conclusions about the treatises' reliability on specific points of law. He also shows how the Laws of Edward the Confessor, taken as a record of English law at the conquest, came to be used as authoritative evidence behind the Magna Carta that the king was under the law, and how it was eventually declared a notorious forgery by seventeenth-century antiquaries and Enlightenment historians.
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