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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “irving massey”
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  • Necessary Nonsense

    Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology

    by Irving Massey ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Culture
    What is nonsense? How has it permeated our day-to-day speech and thought processes in order to become a vital part of the way we interpret the world? In Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology, world-renowned expert Irving Massey commits nearly forty years of scholarly musings on the topic of nonsense to the page. Employing a writing style of overlap, repetition, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Neural Imagination

    Aesthetic and Neuroscientific Approaches to the Arts

    by Irving Massey ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
    Art and technology have been converging rapidly in the past few years; an important example of this convergence is the alliance of neuroscience with aesthetics, which has produced the new field of neuroaesthetics.Irving Massey examines this alliance, in large part to allay the fears of artists and audiences alike that brain science may "explain away" the arts. The first part of the book shows how ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Blue Dreams

    The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

    by Lauren Slater ...
    The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Looking is an Art

    by Cincinnatus Hibbard ...
    Learn the artistic eye. Learn to teach the practice of the artistic eye, the practice of continuously renewed interest and pleasure in your everyday visual experience. ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image

    by Alison Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Introducing Neuropsychology

    2nd Edition

    by John Stirling, Rebecca Elliott ...
    Introducing Neuropsychology, Second Edition investigates the functions of the brain and explores the relationships between brain systems and human behaviour. The material is presented in a jargon-free, easy to understand manner and aims to guide students new to the field through current areas of research.Following a brief history of the discipline and a description of methods in neuropsychology, ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Neuroexistentialism

    Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience

    Edited by Gregg Caruso, Owen Flanagan ...
    Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault. In the first-wave of existentialism, writings typified by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to support a foundation of being. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Art-Based Research

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision

    Collected Tutorial Essays

    Edited by Martha J. Farah, Graham Ratcliff ...
    Series series Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
    This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the relations between vision and conscious awareness. Each chapter includes a tutorial overview emphasizing ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Behavioral Issues in Autism

    Edited by Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Division TEACCH, a statewide program in North Carolina, serves people with autism and their families through the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. TEACCH was one of the first, and remains one of the most comprehensive and effective, programs in the world working with this population. Over the years the puzzling and unusual behavior problems these children ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Neuroethics in Higher Education Policy

    by Dana Lee Baker, Brandon Leonard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United States. After introducing readers to the philosophical and policy foundations of the neuroethics of higher education, this book explores essential conundrums in the neuroethical practice of higher education in modern democracies. Focusing on neuroethics from the perspective of universally designed learning and policy design sets ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD