Author: J. Scott Turner
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: life, itself, emerges, design, accomplice, tinkerer
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674023536
ISBN-13: 9780674023536

Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say--purposeful, directed, even intelligent--is only an illusion, something cooked up in a mind that is eager to see purpose where none exists. In these days of increasingly assertive challenges to Darwinism, the question becomes acute: is our perception of design simply a mental figment, or is there something deeper at work? Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently and convincingly that the a

Author: J. Scott Turner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: structures, physiology, organism, extended
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-06-23
List price: $63.50
ISBN-10: 0674001516
ISBN-13: 9780674001510

Can the structures that animals build--from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef--be said to live? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem, physiological ecologist Scott Turner demonstrates in this book that many animals construct and use structures to harness and control the flow of energy from their environment to their own advantage. Building on Richard Dawkins’s classic, The Extended Phenotype, Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism’s physiology at the skin of the animal is arbitrary. Since the structures

Authors:Scott M. Christensen, Dale R. Turner,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: mind, philosophy, psychology, folk
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0805809317
ISBN-13: 9780805809312

Within the past ten years, the discussion of the nature of folk psychology and its role in explaining behavior and thought has become central to the philosophy of mind. However, no comprehensive account of the contemporary debate or collection of the works that make up this debate has yet been available. Intending to fill this gap, this volume begins with the crucial background for the contemporary debate and proceeds with a broad range of responses to and developments of these works -- from those who argue that "folk theory" is a misnomer to those who regard folk theory as legitimately explan

Authors:Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Elisabeth Davenport,
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: premier, reference, source, perspectives, interdisciplinary, space, technology, spatiality, exploration
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 1605660205
ISBN-13: 9781605660202

The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including computer scientists, anthropologists, and psychologists craving for more on this intriguing new field. Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives offers stimulating research currently bridging the areas of space, spatiality, and technology. A must-read for researchers and scholars working at the intersecti

Authors:David Benyon, Phil Turner, Susan Turner,
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: contexts, technologies, activities, people, interactive, systems, designing
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2005-03-24
List price: $88.40
ISBN-10: 0321116291
ISBN-13: 9780321116291

Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts, Technologies is an exciting, new, forward-looking textbook in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Authoritative in its coverage, this innovative book takes a top-down approach, starting with what is familiar to students and working down to theory/abstract underpinnings. This makes it suitable for beginners with a less technical background as well as advanced students of HCI and can be used at all stages of the curriculum for courses in this dynamic field. The book focuses on and explores this emerging discipline by bringing together t

Authors:Lena Albrite Turner, Pat Turner Ritchie,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, gap, brocks
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-08-24
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738541664
ISBN-13: 9780738541662

Brocks Gap is the name given to 200 square miles in Rockingham County, Virginia, that were created by the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. As early as the 1740s, German-speaking settlers were attracted to the area by abundant water, plentiful wood, fertile river bottoms, and great hunting. Many of the first settlers stayed for generations, tucked into the security of the mountains. Families were self-sufficient, growing their own food, gathering wild berries and nuts for their own use, and selling the surplus. Stories and traditional ways of life have been passed down through generations, m

Authors:Victor Turner, Edith Turner,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: culture, christian, pilgrimage, image
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1995-04-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0231042876
ISBN-13: 9780231042871

First published in 1978 and hailed by as constituting "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic book, now updated and extensively revised, examines the theological doctrines and popular notions that promote and sustain Christian pilgrimage, including their corresponding symbols and images.