A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of
the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious
contributions written by and about scientists. The book records
changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of
science with society.
Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll,
Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and James Clark Maxwell.
This
entertaining anthology covers Murphy's Law, the trial of Galileo, life
on Earth, Gulliver's computer, and much more.
This introduction to neurolinguistics is intended for anybody who wants to acquire a grounding in the field. It was written for students of linguistics and communication disorders, but students of psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines will also find it valuable. The introductory section presents the theories, models and frameworks underlying modern neurolinguistics. Then the neurolinguistic aspects of different components of language – phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, and semantics-pragmatics in communication – are discussed. The third section examines reading and writing, bilingualism, the evolution of language, and multimodality. The book also contains three resource chapters, one on techniques for investigating the brain, another on modeling brain functions, and a third that introduces the basic concepts of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. This text provides an up-to-date linguistic perspective, with a special focus on semantics and pragmatics, evolutionary perspectives, neural network modeling and multimodality, areas that have been less central in earlier introductory works.
This excellent origami book consists of a selection of original models
designed by David Brill, Chairman of the British Origami Society and
one of the most talented origami creators and folders in the United
Kingdom.
Many of the pieces in the book are advanced but they are clearly
diagrammed and will provide plenty of scope for creativity as many of
the forms will be suitable for wet folding. Some can be worked in
ordinary origami paper but many require very large sheets and I
remember one year cutting a 20 inch equilateral triangle of foil for
the Christmas Tree Fairy which in fact produced quite a small figure
about six inches high!
This is therefore not a book for the beginner but it is certainly
one which should be on any origami enthusiast's bookshelf. Models range
from Mr Brill's Ship in a Bottle and the Lidded Box, to the Cigarettes
in a Box and other geometric forms.
This text includes statistical data and observations of cultures in Oceania. For each culture, it examines its history, settlements, economy, cultural relations, land tenure kinship, marriage and family, religion and sociopolitical organization.
