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Pierre-Yves Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily simple neural structures connecting perception and production. He tests this hypothesis...

Evidence-Based Perioperative and Supportive CareNew edition fully includes Grades and Levels of evidence, providing a better idea of what the sum total of existing evidence suggests regarding key topicsGrades and levels of evidence consistently highlighted throughoutGreater number of tables and algorithms ("e;decision trees"e;) for key...

ContraceptionThis completely revised third edition of Fast Facts: Contraception, by two new authors of international renown, provides a concise and practical review of all the available contraceptive methods on the market in a highly readable well-illustrated format....

Part agricultural manual, part political poem and allegory, the Georgics' scenes are real and vivid, and the poet-farmer Peter Fallon restores to life the sights, sounds, and textures of the ancient Italian landscape....

Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early ChinaThis book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "e;no doing,"e; but better rendered as "e;effortless action"e;--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most...

In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of        transformation. Lee A. Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation,        drawing on interviews, documentary evidence, and extensive field research. He...