Author: Todd E. Feinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: creates, brain, egos, altered
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-05-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195152425
ISBN-13: 9780195152425

In Altered Egos, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents a new theory of the self based on his first-hand experience as both a psychiatrist and neurologist. Feinberg introduces dozens of intriguing cases of patients whose disorders have resulted in what he calls "altered egos": a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self. He describes patients who suffer from "alien hand syndrome" where one hand might attack the patient’s own throat, patients with frontal lobe damage who invent fantastic stories about their lives, paralyzed patients who reject and disown one of their limbs. H

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

Author: Armin Schnider
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reality, creates, brain, mind, confabulating
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199206759
ISBN-13: 9780199206759

Comfabulations are memories of events and experiences that have never actually happened. Such false memories have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and recently have been the subject of much debate. This is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of an extraordinary and controversial subject. The Confabulating Mind: How the Brain Creates Reality looks at how confabulations relate to other failures of memory and considers phenomena such as deja-vu, paramnesic misidentification, disorientation, and anosognosia, also examines similarities and differences between pathological con

Author: Richard Smoley
Publisher: New World Library
Keywords: creates, universe, consciousness, shiva, game, dice
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1577316444
ISBN-13: 9781577316442

In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason. In the process, he shows that consciousness is the underlying reality beneath everything in the universe. In one of Hinduism’s great myths, Shiva plays a dice game with his consort, Parvati, and loses consistently. If he is the greatest god, why does he lose? Through this story, Richard Smoley explores the interplay between consciousness, represented by Shiva, and experience, exemplified by Parvati. He draws on numerous disciplines to offer

Author: David Bacon
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: criminalizes, immigrants, migration, creates, people, globalization, illegal
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2008-09-17
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807042269
ISBN-13: 9780807042267

For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.Through interviews and on-the

Author: David Baco
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: criminalizes, immigrants, migration, creates, people, globalization, illegal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0807042307
ISBN-13: 9780807042304

For two decades David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People he explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, migration, immigration raids, and an increasingly divided and polarized society. Arguing for a sea change in how we think, debate, and legislate about and around immigration, Bacon promotes a human rights perspective in a globalized world.

Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Keywords: creates, culture, imagination, disruptive, makes, world, trickster
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-09-04
List price: $13.06
ISBN-10: 1847672256
ISBN-13: 9781847672254

"Art is a lie that tells the truth." - Pablo Picasso. Picasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit. Playful, mischievous, subversive, and amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our world - with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt - was trickster’s creation, and the work is not yet finished. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, "Trickster Makes This World" encourages you to think and see afresh.