How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
Leading speaker on innovation and creativity Paul Sloane helps readers think in powerful new ways. It shows how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation, and other areas to become more creative. Readers will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve their memory, sell their ideas, and win arguments. The book is packed with practical methods to put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics, and illustrations.
A total program to improve health and increase longevity—complete with over 150 meal plans, recipes and tips Forget what you can’t eat. The 200 SuperFoods That Will Save Your Life gives you the healthy news about foods you should eat and enjoy, including sweet, yet healthy indulgences like tomatoes, guacamole, and semisweet chocolate chips.
For parents, educators, immigrants and expatriates, Bilingual By Choice deals directly with the obstacles to sustaining a second language, including unsupportive relatives, issues at school, frequent relocations and discrimination, countering each one with the author's firsthand experience with both sides of the growing-up-bilingual journey, as a child and a parent. Commit to the choice and help your children become bilingual-- for life.
In Language and Equilibrium, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modeling it as a system of interdependent games.
This introductory text takes a novel approach to the study of syntax. Grammar as Science offers an introduction to syntax as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Syntax provides an excellent instrument for introducing students from a wide variety of backgrounds to the principles of scientific theorizing and scientific thought; it engages general intellectual themes present in all scientific theorizing as well as those arising specifically within the modern cognitive sciences.
