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  • Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes

    Explaining the Universe with the Alphabet

    by Andrea Moro ...
    A novel reading of De rerum natura through the lens of neurolinguistics.In the poem De rerum natura, written in the first century BC, Lucretius set out to explain the atomic theory of the universe and the triumph of reason over superstition to a Roman audience. In Lucretius and the Bat with Blue Eyes, a collection and critical translation of every passage on language in this great classic, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Secrets of Words

    by Noam Chomsky, Andrea Moro ...
    Noam Chomsky and linguist Andrea Moro explore language, the history of science, Big Data and AI, and the mysteries of the human brain.Influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Chomsky discusses today’s ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Impossible Languages

    by Andrea Moro ...
    An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws that constrain languages? In this book, Andrea Moro—a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • I Speak, Therefore I Am

    Seventeen Thoughts About Language

    Translated by Ian Roberts ...
    by Andrea Moro ...
    There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood.... On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.—DescartesLanguage is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

    Symmetries in the Brain

    by Andrea Moro ...
    Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
    This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained without the theoretical base provided by the former.The book is organized in two parts: Part 1 focuses on ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Boundaries of Babel, second edition

    The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

    by Andrea Moro ...
    Series Book 46 - Current Studies in Linguistics
    The new edition of a pioneering book that examines research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences.In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro describes an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. As a leading theoretical linguist in the generative tradition and also a neuroscientist, Moro ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Digital Token Valuation

    Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, Decentralized Finance, and Blockchains

    by Roberto Moro-Visconti, Andrea Cesaretti ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book looks at the analogic application of standard corporate valuation approaches to trendy digital tokens, expressed by cryptocurrencies, and validated through blockchain systems. Whereas traditional firm appraisal follows institutional guidelines and best practices, frontier research still must define the boundaries of these trendy issues, linking a strong theoretical background to ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Discrimination in Latin America

    An Economic Perspective

    Edited by Hugo Ñopo, Alberto Chong, Andrea Moro ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    While there is a strongly held belief that Latin American societies are highly discriminatory, the economic profession has found relatively little evidence for this perception, and until recently other social sciences had prevailed in the discussion of this timely and relevant topic. The development of new tools for analyzing the economic mechanisms underlying discrimination, however, has opened ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discrimination In Latin America: An Economic Perspective

    by Nopo Hugo; Chong Alberto; Moro Andrea ...
    Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Italy and the Environmental Humanities

    Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

    by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena Past, Marco Armiero, Franco Arminio, Professor Patrick Barron, PhD, Damiano Benvegnù, Viktor Berberi0, Rosi Braidotti1, Luca Bugnone2, Almo Farina3, Sophia Maxine Farmer4, Serena Ferrando5, Tiziano Fratus6, Matteo Gilebbi7, Andrea Hajek8, Marcus Hall9, Andrea Lerda0, Roberto Marchesini1, Marco Moro2, Carlo Petrini3, Monica Seger4, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan5, Professor Pasquale Verdicchio, PhD6 ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

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    by Kathryn Warner ...
    A resource of information about the cultural, political and social conditions of urban life in the capital of medieval England during the 1300s.For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was ... Read more

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  • The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

    Ancient Wisdom, #2

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 2 - Ancient Wisdom
    The thinkers who built the Western mind—and still shape your own.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read. —Philip van Heusen for Readers' FavoriteThree men. Three rival visions of reality. And together, the hidden framework behind how you think about truth, morality, happiness, and meaning.Much of Western philosophy can be traced back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—figures whose ... Read more

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