Argues that the ancient structures at Giza, including the pyramids and the Sphinx, may be much older than originally thought, and discusses a mysterious underground chamber recently detected beneath the Sphinx.
In this riveting account of historical and archaeological investigation, the authors present hard evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than previously believed. Complete with evidence of a conspiracy between the Egyptology establishment and various confidential organizations to keep the secrets of the Pyramids from the world, The Message of the Sphinx is also a modern-day detective story.
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society. For more information please visit the author's website at www.pleasurablekingdom.com
A straightforward and specialized instructional text.
ATTENTION! THE TEXT CONTAINS EXPLICIT FORENSIC IMAGES NOT SUITABLE FOR KIDS!!!
Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook by forensic dental consultant C. Michael Bowers is a straightforward and specialized instructional text dedicated to teaching the foundations of dental investigation methodology to providing "need-to-know" information for law enforcement, coroners, crime scene personnel, investigators, and medical-legal personnel. Enhanced with more than 150 color photographs, Forensic Dental Evidence offers a straightforward basis of education concerning forensic odontology, as well as new advances and advice concerning digital comparison techniques which are now possible with Adobe Photoshop and other types of the latest computer and laboratory-based technologies. Forensic Dental Evidence is an expertly written and presented instructional that would form a core holding for any professional or academic Criminology or Forensic Science reference collection.
Views on attention have undergone continuous evolution since the early work of the 1950s. Since that time, the questions asked about attention, consciousness and control have changed, and evidence drawn into the debate comes not only from experimental psychology, but also from neurophysiology, neuropsychology and computational modelling. As evidence has accumalated, theories have changed and fundamental assumptions have been challenged. Rather than asking “What is attention?”, people now consider “Why does attentional behaviour appear the way it is?” This textbook charts the development of these ideas, through the examination of a variety of tasks considered to involve attentional behaviour, together with evidence from studies of patients, neurophysiology and cognitive modelling.; After a consideration of what attention might be and whether it is a cause or an effect, this book describes and discusses work on selective auditory attention. It also deals with: problems of divided attention, task combination, automaticity and intentional control; selection for action; conscious and unconscious processing in both normal experimental subjects and neuropsychological patients; and neuropsychological and computational aspects of attention.
Like Caesar’s Gaul, this book is divided into three parts, and like Caesar’s book (The Conquest of Gaul), it is about domains, border conflicts, and imperialism – in this case, the shifting border between psychology and neuroscience, and the possibility that psychology will be annexed by and incorporated in neuroscience. Is there a possibility that psychology will be reduced to or even replaced by neuroscience? That depends on what is meant by reduction in general (Part I), it depends on how theories in different sciences can be related (Part II), and it depends on empirical evidence (Part III). Thus, in this book, both the philosophical framework, the conceptual and metaphysical foundations, as well as the empirical evidence for such reductive claims are addressed.
