Cognition
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My Stroke Of Insight
by Jill Bolte Taylor
On the morning of December 10, 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain – the rational, grounded, detail and time-oriented side –...
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Incognito
by David Eagleman
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research has been published in journals from Science to Nature, and his neuroscience books include Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia (with Richard Cytowic) and the forthcoming Live-Wired. He is also the author of the internationally best-selling book of fiction Sum: Forty Tales from the...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
by Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered in 1986.
Cognition Books & Ephemera
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Jaynes, Julian
Mariner Books, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Unmarked throughout. Classic consciousness text that suggests human consciousness is a learned process. 496p. Measures 6x9 inches. Index. Illustrated.
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£17.00£12.75
Intelligent Language Tutors: Theory Shaping Technology
by Holland, V. Melissa, Et Al, Eds
Mahwah, NJ. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. 1st Edition. Softcover. Minor bumps and rubbing to glossy card covers. Pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . Twenty papers addressing aspects of the general topic. Author and subject indexes. . Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 384 pages. M5 .
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£25.09
Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions: A Reconstruction Based on His Theory of Meaning
by Flage, Daniel E
St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Back panel of dust jacket is slightly rubbed, no other defects, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Book has no defects; pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . A beautiful copy of the first edition. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 226 pages. I2 .
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£48.56
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 28 (1993)
by Williams, Martha E
Information Today Inc & American Society for Information Science. Fine. 1993. Hardcover. No defects. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. . Book consists of scholarly literature reviews and lengthy bibliographies on a variety of problem areas within information science and technology. Problem areas treated in this volume include: social intelligence, electronic U. S. Government Information, Information Gatekeepers, speech synthesis and recognition,...
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£25.49
The Ascent of Mind
by Calvin, William
Bantam. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Slight crease to top of back panel, a little rubbing, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Book has no defects; pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. . A beautiful copy, gift quality. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 302 pages. G1 .
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£22.26
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Paperback / softback. New. Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs of computation designed by natural selection.
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£16.94
Atualidade de Jean Piaget
by Ferreiro, Emilia
Artmed. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. Softcover. Cover corners are slightly bumped, no other defects. Book is unread. Softcover with stiff card wrappers. . Text is in Portuguese. . Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 143 pages. G3 .
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£32.37
Scientific and Technological Thinking
by Gorman, Michael E. & Ryan D. Tweney & David C. Gooding & Alexandra P. Kincannon
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Fine. 2005. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Glossy boards are a bit rubbed, no other defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, book appears unread. . Fifteen papers treat aspects of the general topic. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 378 pages. G4 .
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£60.70
The Representation of Knowledge and Belief (Arizona Colloquium in Cognition)
by Brand, Myles [Editor]; Harnish, Robert M. [Editor];
University of Arizona Press, 1987-02-01. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked . 8x6x1. A very clean and straight copy. No dust jacket, as issue. 368 pp.
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£9.71
The Society of Mind
by Minsky, Marvin
London: Picador, 1988. First printing of this edition. Paperback. near Very Good. First printing of this 4to paperback edition (280 x 210mm). Pp 339. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the half-title else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. The wrappers are a little soiled and worn.
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£15.00
The Mind's Past
by Gazzaniga, Michael S
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1998. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. xv, 201 pages. One of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, show how our mind and brain accomplich the amazing feat of constructing our past. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and...
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£15.86
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1997. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.15
Personal Being: a Theory for Individual Psychology
by Harre, Rom
Harvard University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is rubbed, no other defects. Book has no defects; pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; appears to be unread. . Study of human individuality and associated individual psychology. This is the first edition, a beautiful copy. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 299 pages. K1 .
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£32.37
The Cognitive Use of Artifacts in Cooperative Process Management: Rescue Management and Underground Line Control
by Garbis, Christer
Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. Softcover. Front cover has corner bump, crease and curling. Inscription to former owner on half-title page. Pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . This is a published doctoral dissertation, in English. It reports empirical studies, carried out in an underground line control room and in rescue management. It studies how cognitive artifacts are used by the operator teams in...
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£64.74
The Society of Mind
by Minsky, Marvin
Simon & Schuster, 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.20
Predication Theory: A Case Study for Indexing Theory
by Napoli, Donna Jo
Cambridge University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is a little rubbed an scratched, no other defects. Book has no defects; binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 369 pages. H4 .
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£32.37
Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in Science & the Humanities: Cumulative Index 1994-2003
by [no author]
Imprint Academic, 2003. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Ten year cumulative index, 1994-2003. 30p. Measures 6.75x8.25 inches. Issue covers illustrated.
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£21.85£16.39
Rational Choice and Judgment Decision Analysis for the Decider
by Brown, Rex
Wiley-Interscience. New. 2005. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. New, no defects, unread. . Systems Engineering and Management Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 245 pages. A1 .
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£40.46
The Cult of Uncertainty,
by Kandel, Isaac Leon
MacMillan. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Like New book in VG- dust jacket. Jacket has age-toning, sunning to spine and clipped corner (but price of $1.50 is visible on an unclipped corner. Jacket now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book has no defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, appears unread. . A handsome copy of the first printing. This is NOT a reprint. . The Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series. [No. 15] Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 129...
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£40.46
