|
|
|
 From Perception to Consciousness: Searching with Anne Treisman By Jeremy Wolfe, Lynn Robertson 2012 | 439 Pages | ISBN: 019973433X | PDF | 12 MB Anyone interested in the study of attention will have had some exposure to the work of Anne Treisman. Anne Treisman has been one of the most influential cognitive psychologists in the last 50 years. Her research and theoretical insights have influenced a variety of disciplines, including vision sciences, auditory sciences, cognitive psychology, cognitive neurosciences, philosophy, psychiatry, neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology. She is best known for her work on attention. Early in her career, much of that work involved auditory stimuli. Her later work has been primarily in the realm of visual attention. She has been especially concerned with the interactions among visual perception, attention, and memory as they relate to conscious and unconscious experience. Her Feature Integration Theory has been one of the organizing ideas in the field for three decades.While still a graduate student at Oxford, she helped launch the modern study of attention. In the present volume, several of her most influential papers are reprinted (including some of the harder to find early work). To accompany these reprints, the editors invited experts to comment and/or to show how their own work had been shaped by Treisman's ideas and findings. The result is a scientifically rich ride through the world of ideas inspired by Treisman's work. The contributed chapters include discussions of auditory and visual attention, the role of features in selection, parallel and serial processing, and automaticity. They describe the roots and evolution of Feature Integration Theory and related models like Guided Search. They explore the interactions of attention and perception at the cognitive, neuropsychological, and biological levels. Readers can consider the critical role of binding in perception, the role of attention in scene perception, as well as the influence of cognitive load, memory, reflection, and perceptual learning on early and late processing. They will see how methods to study conscious perceptual awareness have evolved over the years.  Finding Democracy in Music (Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century) by Robert Adlington, Esteban Buch 2020 | ISBN: 036748692X | English | 222 pages | PDF | 5 MB For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians' imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music's proven capacity to contribute to specific political causes, musicians have explored how aspects of their practice embody democratic principles. This may involve adopting particular approaches to compositional material, performance practice, relationships to audiences, or modes of dissemination and distribution.  Hadas Elber-Aviram, "Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present" English | ISBN: 1350110671 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.  Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays By Benjamin Fondane; Bruce Baugh; Andrew Rubens 2016 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 159017898X | EPUB | 1 MB Benjamin Fondane-who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges's friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz-was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, "a torture and a spur." Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom-the State, History, the Law, the Idea.Existential Mondayis the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English. Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century.  Excavating Indiana Jones : Essays on the Films and Franchise by Randy Laist English | 2020 | ISBN: 1476676925 | 219 Pages | PDF | 8.8 MB  Michael Denton, "Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis" English | ISBN: 1936599325 | 2016 | 354 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 1135 KB + 1467 KB More than thirty years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life. He argues that there remains "an irresistible consilience of evidence for rejecting Darwinian cumulative selection as the major driving force of evolution." From the origin of life to the origin of human language, the great divisions in the natural order are still as profound as ever, and they are still unsupported by the series of adaptive transitional forms predicted by Darwin. In addition, Denton makes a provocative new argument about the pervasiveness of nonadaptive order throughout biology, order that cannot be explained by the Darwinian mechanism.
 Enhancing Clinical Case Formulation: Theoretical and Practical Approaches for Mental Health Practitioners by Patrick Ryan 2021 | ISBN: 1138598348, 1138598321 | English | 162 pages | PDF | 4 MB Clinical formulation lies at the heart of how mental health professionals understand psychological distress. It is the application of a framework that cohesively integrates scientific knowledge with the symptoms of distress. In essence, it is the creation of order to what is often experienced as disorder. The aim of this book is to bring awareness to the theoretical and practical opportunities for mental health professionals that exists by using atypical information when adapting typical formulation models.  Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time By Jeremy Dronfield 2016 | ISBN : 1780748310 | English | 637 pages | EPUB | 23 MB  Disrupting Africa: Technology, Law, and Development by Olufunmilayo B. Arewa 2021 | ISBN: 1107156696, 1316610039 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 4 MB [center]  Digital Approaches to Promoting Integration in Higher Education: Opening Universities for Refugees English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030771504 | 128 Pages | PDF EPUB | 5 MB This book discusses digital learning opportunities in higher education for refugees with different educational, social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Based on findings from practical studies and research projects from several countries, the book highlights the numerous challenges when it comes to the successful integration of refugees into higher education. These challenges arise at both the individual and the institutional level. The contributions included in this book show how these challenges can be effectively met using digital teaching-learning platforms. The work thus offers a comprehensive insight into the opportunities online-based learning platforms offer regarding the successful integration of refugees into higher education |
: 