Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures

Few topics of scientific enquiry have attracted more attention in the last decade than the origin and evolution of language. Few have offered an equivalent intellectual challenge for interdisciplinary collaborations between linguistics, cognitive science, prehistoric archaeology, palaeoanthropology, genetics, neurophysiology, computer science and robotics. The contributions presented in this volume reflect the multiplicity of interests and research strategy used to tackle this complex...

Molecular Modeling and Simulation: An Interdisciplinary Guide

This book evolved from an interdisciplinary graduate course entitled Molecular Modeling developed at New York University. Its primary goal is to stimulate excitement for molecular modeling research while introducing readers to the wide range of biomolecular problems being solved by computational techniques and to those computational tools.

Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems

Biology’s First Law shows how the Zero-Force Evolutionary Law can be applied to the study of diversity and complexity and examines its wider implications for biology. Intended for evolutionary biologists, paleontologists, and other scientists studying complex systems, and written in a concise and engaging format that speaks to students and interdisciplinary practitioners alike, this book will also find an appreciative audience in the philosophy of science.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read: Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read brings together different disciplinary perspectives and studies on reading for all those who seek to extend and enrich the current practice, research and policy debates. The breadth of knowledge that underpins pedagogy is a central theme and the book will help educators, policymakers and researchers understand the full range of research perspectives that must inform decisions about the development of reading in schools.

Multicultural Mathematics: Interdisciplinary Cooperative-Learning Activities58 activities to supplement and enrich the regular mathematics curriculum.

Multicultural Mathematics is fascinating! The book is set up as a series of exercise sheets, dealing with ancient Egyptian, Chinese, African, American Indian, and other math systems, and it's all fun! The suggested age is 5th or 6th grade. It might also be a way to interest someone who's a little turned off on traditional math.