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85 produkter
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Writing Classic Prose
Av Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Häftad, 2017
896 kr
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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only …
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition
Av Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Häftad, 2011
298 kr
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For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noel Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic …
The Literary Mind
Av Mark Turner
Inbunden, 1997
679 kr
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We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example, …
Creative Construction Grammar
Av Thomas Hoffmann, Mark Turner
Inbunden, 2026
885 kr
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Constructions are long-term pairings in memory of form and meaning. How are they created and learned, how do they change, and how do they combine into new utterances (constructs, communicative performances) in working memory? Drawing on evidence from word-formation (blending, Noun-Noun-compounds) …
The Origin of Ideas
Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark
Av Mark Turner
Häftad, 2015
455 kr
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Why are we so innovative? Where do new ideas come from? Why are human beings so exceptionally good at innovation, leaving other species mentally in the dust? How can we hold onto new ideas once they are formed? This book explores the claim that the human spark, the source of innovation and the …
Figurative Language and Thought
Av Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2197 kr
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Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, many traditional …
Figurative Language and Thought
Av Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
526 kr
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Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, many traditional …
The Literary Mind
Av Mark Turner
Häftad, 1998
438 kr
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Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are …
The Artful Mind
Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity
Av TURNER, Mark Turner
Inbunden, 2006
1023 kr
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All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative …
Artful Mind
Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 2006
660 kr
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All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner''s phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative …
Literary Mind
The Origins of Thought and Language
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 1996
197 kr
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We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop''s Fables or The Thousand and One Nights , for example, …
Figurative Language and Thought
Av Mark Turner, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. m. fl.
E-bok, 1998
232 kr
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Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches …
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume VII: Journalism II
Inbunden, 2013
4318 kr
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This volume of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the second volume of Wilde's journalism. Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted the greater part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he was prepared to write on a remarkable range of topics - from cookery books …
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume VI: Journalism I
Inbunden, 2013
4318 kr
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This volume of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first volume of Wilde's journalism. Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted the greater part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he was prepared to write on a remarkable range of topics - from cookery books to …
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science
The Way We Think About Politics, Economics, Law, and Society
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 2003
374 kr
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What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here? What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? In Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science , Mark Turner offers an answer to these pressing questions: …
Literary Mind
The Origins of Thought and Language
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 1998
197 kr
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We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop''s Fables or The Thousand and One Nights , for example, …
Artful Mind
Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 2006
660 kr
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All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner''s phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative …
Origin of Ideas
Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 2014
238 kr
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What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly …
Origin of Ideas
Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 2014
238 kr
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What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly …
More than Cool Reason
A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Häftad, 1989
324 kr
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"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme …
Challenging Global Inequality
Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
Av Alastair Greig, David Hulme m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
661 kr
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This major introductory text written by 3 leading names in the field provides an accessible overview of the challenges faced in overcoming global poverty and inequality in the 21st century. Through an in-depth assessment of development theory and practice, the authors set out to advance two key …
Essentials of Translational Pediatric Drug Development
From Past Needs to Future Opportunities
Av Elke Gasthuys, Karel Allegaert m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1791 kr
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Essentials of Translational Pediatric Drug Development: From Past Needs to Future Opportunities provides integrated and up-to-date insights relevant for both translational researchers and clinicians active in the field of pediatric drug development. The book covers all key aspects from different …
Essentials of Translational Pediatric Drug Development
From Past Needs to Future Opportunities
Av Mark Turner, Lien Dossche m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
2494 kr
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Essentials of Translational Pediatric Drug Development: From Past Needs to Future Opportunities provides integrated and up-to-date insights relevant for both translational researchers and clinicians active in the field of pediatric drug development. The book covers all key aspects from different …
Central-local Relations in Asia-Pacific
Convergence or Divergence?
Av Mark Turner
Inbunden, 1999
1096 kr
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A source of perennial tension in states is the degree to which decision-making power and authority should be concentrated in central institutions and individuals. At present the conventional wisdom of central-local relations has swung in favour of decentralization. There is, we are told, a …
Governance, Management and Development
Making the State Work
Av David Hulme, Mark Turner m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
600 kr
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This fully revised edition of the same authors' Governance, Administration and Development is the ideal introduction to public management and the policy process in developing countries. With a new chapter on issues of law and order, it also covers current debates on civil society, aid and …
Governance, Management and Development
Making the State Work
Av David Hulme, Mark Turner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2125 kr
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This fully revised edition of the same authors' Governance, Administration and Development is the ideal introduction to public management and the policy process in developing countries. With a new chapter on issues of law and order, it also covers current debates on civil society, aid and …
Way We Think
Conceptual Blending And The Mind's Hidden Complexities
Av Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
Häftad, 2003
317 kr
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In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition - the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in …
Reading Minds
The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science
Av Mark Turner
Häftad, 1994
683 kr
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The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark …
Reading Minds
The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science
Av Mark Turner
E-bok, 2021
955 kr
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The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark …
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Writing Classic Prose
Av Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Inbunden, 2017
1935 kr
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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only …
