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The human cognitive architecture consists of a set of largely independent modules associated with different brain regions. This book discusses in detail how these various modules can combine to produce behaviours as varied as driving a car and solving an algebraic equation.

This collection of studies by Gail Jefferson, one of the co-founders of the field of Conversation Analysis, represents a distinctive and sustained investigation of speakers correcting errors in their own and one another's speech. Combining rigorous technical analysis, methodological innovation, and acute observation, Jefferson explores the subterranean world of interaction.

This is the first single-author book on what has come to be known as neuroethics. Walter Glannon uses a philosophical framework that is fully informed by cutting edge neuroscience as well as contemporary legal cases such as Terri Schiavo, to offer readers an introduction to this fascinating topic.

Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This book offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value.

Christians in the churches of Africa, Asia, and Latin America live in settings very close to the social, cultural, and intellectual milieu in which the New Testament itself was written. For this reason, this book argues, they read the Scriptures with a freshness impossible in the prosperous societies of North America and Europe.

Offers in-depth examinations of the lives and presidencies of eleven chief executives for whom religion was a particularly important issue because of their own beliefs. The author paints portraits of the religious lives of the leaders and shows how their beliefs shaped their actions, and in turn the course of our history.

How can we ensure that the accurate information emerges and is heeded? This book develops an optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, combat groupthink, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives.

A critical look at the history and future of the Internet.

In this unique synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history by a historian at the peak of his powers, James C. Cobb spans more then two centuries in tracing the origins and development of the South as not just an exception to the national rule, but an internal 'other' against which, from the very outset, American nationhood itself was defined.

Women's Liberation and the Sublime is a passionate report on the state of feminist thinking and practice after the linguistic turn. A critical assessment of masculinist notions of the sublime in modern and postmodern accounts grounds the author's positive and constructive recuperation of sublime experience in a feminist voice.

Presents a view of the music director's job from the inside - starting at the moment students decide they want to be conductors, through their first jobs to being a successful artistic leaders. This book covers the practical ground that music schools neglect. It is useful for helping conductors think about their duties both on and off the podium.

This fresh, wide-ranging assessment of Haydn's quartets explores the circumstances of their creation, reveals the conventions and novelties that govern their design, and examines the wealth of textures, stylistic allusions, and rhetorical strategies that underlie their stature as a cornerstone of the chamber music repertory.

A Greener Faith chronicles the promises of religious environmentalism, illuminating its fundamental ideas, describing the work of its leading prophets, and detailing its important contributions to a global environment.

Paul Taffanel (1844 - 1908) is essentially the father of modern flute playing. Drawing on previously unavailable material from a provate archive in Paris, Blakeman describes and evaluates Taffanel's life, career, and works, with particular reference to his influence as founder of the modern French School of flute playing.

"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren". So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. In this work, Stephen Haynes examines the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, turning to the ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters.

This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today.

This casebook presents representative texts from Roman legal sources that introduce the basic problems arising in Roman families, including marriage and divorce, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of orphans.

This book argues for the continuing tension across historical contexts between movements emphasizing ritual and movements emphasizing sincerity. Our contemporary age has, at great risk, downplayed the importance of ritual. Drawing on examples from Chinese, Greek, Jewish, and contemporary culture, the book presents an innovative interdisciplinary account of how ritual works.

In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, to the global spread of the Latter-Day Saints. Here is a religion shaped by an authoritarian hierarchy and individualism, intellectual investigation, existence in exile and a yearning for acceptance by the larger world.

James Joyce's final novel was "Finnegans Wake", to which he devoted seventeen years. This title proposes that the "Wake" has at its core an age-old philosophical question, "What makes a life worth living?", and that Joyce explores that question from the perspective of someone who feels that a long life is now ending.

"Citizen Kane" is the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. This volume represents the essential writings on "Kane". It gives the reader a set of critical interpretations, together with the production information, historical background, and technical understanding to comprehend the film's cultural significance.

Examines the debate over the proper connection in society between religion and public life, that took place in the fifty years following the American Revolution. This book challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity.