Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: human, invention, evolution, science, brain, reading
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-11-12
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0670021105
ISBN-13: 9780670021109

A renowned cognitive neuroscientist’s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words? Reading in the Brain describes pioneering research on how we process language, revealing the hid

Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: mathematics, creates, mind, sense, number
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-12-09
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0195132408
ISBN-13: 9780195132403

The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our

Authors:Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hause
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: brain, bradford, books, symposium, fyssen, human, monkey, foundation
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0262042231
ISBN-13: 9780262042239

The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, sensations, perceptions, and emotions; there are considerable similarities but also considerable differences between human and nonhuman primate brains. From Monkey Brain to Human Brain uses the latest findings in cognitive psychology, comparative biology, and neuroscience to look at the complex patterns of convergence and divergence in primate cortical organization and function. Several chapters examine the use of modern technologies to study primate brai

Authors:Marian Verhelst, Wim Dehaene,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: analog, ranging, circuits, signal, processing, communication, uwb, scalable, radio, design, pulsed, energy
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9048126932
ISBN-13: 9789048126934

Smart energy management, both at design time and at run time, is indispensable in modern radios. It requires a careful trade-off between the system’s performance, and its power consumption. Moreover, the design has to be dynamically reconfigurable to optimally balance these parameters at run time, depending on the current operating conditions. Energy Scalable Radio Design describes and applies an energy-driven design strategy to the design of an energy-efficient, highly scalable, pulsed UWB receiver, suitable for low data rate communication and sub-cm ranging. This book meticulously covers

Author: Stanislas Breton
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: philosophy, continental, perspectives, cross, word
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 082322158X
ISBN-13: 9780823221585

In times that have challenged contemporary illusions, many seek to recover the Christian vocabulary of suffering, the cross, and a hope freed of triumphalism and exclusivity. Stanislas Breton presents the nothingnessof the cross in its infirmity and paradoxical power. Blending the poetic with the philosophical, faith with interrogation, mystical and practical, ancient and new, he seeks to lift the cross from its imprisonment in ontologies of abundance and in a history of compromise. The Word and the Cross distills the meditation of a thinker in his prime on the possibility of the Christian and

Author: Stanislas Klossowski De Rola
Publisher: Siruela
Keywords: spanish, aureo, juego
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 8478448241
ISBN-13: 9788478448241

Author: Tobias Stanislas Haller
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: sexuality, engaging, holy, reasonable
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1596271108
ISBN-13: 9781596271104

Reasonable and Holy addresses the conflict over homosexuality within the Anglican tradition, demonstrating that the church is able to provide for and support faithful and loving relationships between persons of the same sex, not as a departure from that tradition, but as a reasonable extension of it. It offers a carefully argued, but accessible means of engagement with Scripture, the Jewish and Christian traditions, and the use of reason in dealing with the experience and lives of fellow-Christians. Unlike most reflections on the topic of homosexuality, Reasonable and Holy examines same-sex re