Authors:Alexander Todorov, Susan Fiske, Deborah Prentice,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: social, neuroscience, series, cognition, oxford, underpinnings, understanding, mind
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2011-02-11
List price: $89.50
ISBN-10: 0195316878
ISBN-13: 9780195316872

The field of social cognitive neuroscience has captured the attention of many researchers during the past ten years. Much of the impetus for this new field came from the development of functional neuroimaging methods that made it possible to unobtrusively measure brain activation over time. Using these methods over the last 30 years has allowed psychologists to move from simple validation questions -- would flashing stimuli activate the visual cortex -- to those about the functional specialization of brain regions-- are there regions in the inferior temporal cortex dedicated to face processing

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: theory, culture, literature, discourse, genres
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1990-08-31
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521349990
ISBN-13: 9780521349994

This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today’s literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre. Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry. Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among th

Author: George Todorov
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: samurai, drifter
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-03-09
List price: $14.49
ISBN-10: 1425981844
ISBN-13: 9781425981846

Ischuru Yakimoto was one of the most skilled samurai warriors in Japan. But even his skill couldn’t save him when he came upon the body of a prostitute in a wayside inn and, in a rage, dispatched her murderer-the Emperor’s nephew. Such a crime was punishable by death, and almost at once, Yakimoto and the young orphan boy who was his companion became hunted criminals, relentlessly pursued by the Imperial Guard.Thus began Yakimoto’s incredible adventure, as a "ghost" from a higher world took him under its protection, saved him time and again from certain capture, and began to t

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: cornell, paperbacks, genre, literary, structural, approach, fantastic
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1975-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0801491460
ISBN-13: 9780801491467

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: rousseau, essay, happiness, frail
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0271021101
ISBN-13: 9780271021102

Rousseau is often said to have "discovered and invented our modernity", and the author’s interpretation centres on the question of what sort of life we can live in modern times.

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: question, america, conquest
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1999-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0806131373
ISBN-13: 9780806131375

A classic in its field, The Conquest of America is a study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of both Columbus’s discovery of America and the Spaniards’ subsequent conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean. Using sixteenth-century sources, the distinguished French writer and critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the beliefs and behavior of the Spanish conquistadors and of the Aztecs, adversaries in a clash of cultures that resulte

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Siglo XXI
Keywords: spanish, otros, los, nosotros
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 9682316553
ISBN-13: 9789682316555

Despues de hacer, de Montaigne a Levi-Strauss, la critica del humanismo clasico, el autor pasa revista a la historia del racismo y del nacionalismo y del surgimiento de lo exotico, para finalmente hacer el elogio de un humanismo bien temperado, y del triunfo de la estructuras sociales moderadas frente a las tiranicas.