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Perceiving Complexity to Avoid CatastrophesIn this fascinating book cognitive scientist Viki McCabe argues that the catastrophes we now face--economic recessions, ecological devastation, and political paralysis--originate in our ignoring the world we perceive and acting on the theories we conceive. Using cutting-edge research and compelling true...

Part of the groundbreaking Landmarks Papers in... series, Landmark Papers in Anaesthesia details 10 key papers in each of the major areas of anaesthesia. Each paper is discussed in detail, summarised, and its strengths and weaknesses highlighted. Papers are selected on a number of criteria, including most cited, the authors' choice, or even...

Empirical approaches across styles and culturesWhat does it mean to be expressive in music performance across diverse historical and cultural domains? What are the means at the disposal of a performer in various time periods and musical practice conventions? What are the conceptualisations of expression and the roles of performers that shape...

Does a right to property exist under international law? The traditional answer to this question is no: a right to property can only arise under the domestic law of a particular nation. But the view that property rights are exclusively governed by national law is obsolete. Identifiable areas of property law have emerged at the international level,...

Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewiss search for her lost father the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq wars. It also...

In its evolution, psychoanalysis has become a broad spectrum of theories making use of an approach that can be considered psychoanalytic in that it is based on the existence and importance of unconscious motivation. In Specialty Competencies in Psychoanalysis in Psychology, Morris, Javier, and Herron discuss and delineate the functional and...