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This book presents the theory of threaded cognition, a theory that aims to explain the multitasking mind. The theory states that multitasking behavior can be expressed as cognitive threads-independent streams of thought that weave through the mind's processing resources to produce multitasking behavior, and sometimes experience conflicts to produce...

Civilizing Habits explores the life stories of three French women missionaries - Philippine Duchesne, Emilie de Vialar, and Anne-Marie Javouhey - who transgressed boundaries to evangelize in North America, the Mediterranean basin, and France's slave colonies. Their initiative and energy allowed both the Catholic church and the French state to...

The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's FairReid L. Neilson provides the first examination of Latter-day Saint participation        in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was a watershed moment in the Mormon        migration to the American mainstream and its leadership's discovery of public        relations efforts, and marked the...

Myths, Tales, and StoriesOffers the first anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic literature, from myths, scripture, tales of fairies and elves, to modern fiction. Discusses the uses people make of these tales and their sources in psychology and society....

Bede Rundle presents a philosophical investigation of the nature and reality of time and space, by means of analysis of the concepts involved. He discusses anti-realism, time travel, temporal parts, geometry, convention, and infinity, and more general issues concerning identity, objectivity, causation, facts, and verifiability....

The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first        century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed        forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of        war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before...