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Presenting a synthesis of cognitive neuroscience, this work is structured over theoretical and empirical base. Five major cognitive functions, perception, memory, attention, language, and intelligence, are analysed from the perspectives of neurobiology and cognitive science.
Primitive war was a savage affair, not the rare, ritualized, harmless and essentially unimportant conflict that most anthropologists have portrayed for the last 50 years.... Læs mere
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for writing history and plotting to become empress by murdering her brother. This book explains how Anna... Læs mere