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  • The Sergio Torres Story

    From the Brick Factory to Old Trafford

    by Sergio Torres, Juan Manuel Lopez ...
    An inspirational, personal story of one soccer star's never-say-die attitudes, and his rise to the topSergio Torres's is an incredible true story of the benefits of willpower, sacrifice, joy, and daring to dream. Imagine you're working in a brick factory in the Argentine city Mar del Plata, and a 22-year-old colleague tells you he's going to quit his job to become a professional soccer player in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar: Mind, Agency and the Materiality of Language

    Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar

    by Sergio Torres-Martínez ...
    Series series Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar
    Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG) redefines language as an adaptive, embodied semiotic system shaped by cognition, interaction, and prediction. Rooted in Peircean semiotics and Active Inference, it sees speakers as agent-interpretants adjusting semiotic representations based on need-driven processes rather than rigid hierarchies. Rejecting dualism, AgCCxG highlights the interplay ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bestiary of Shadows (Bestiario de sombras): A Bilingual poetic collection

    Poetry 1

    by Sergio Torres-Martínez ...
    Series series Poetry 1
    This collection of poems was written within a concentrated period, resulting from an exercise in intense introspection. It reflects on personal themes, obsessions, and memories that needed compiling, akin to editing a video. The poems function as sequences that guide the reader to viscerally experience the writer's mindscape through vivid readings and fetishized characters. There are no extreme ... Read more

    $24.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Triumph of the Fake: Artificial Intelligence, Trump, Musk, and Jianwei Xun

    by Sergio Torres ...
    The fake—the counterfeit, the bogus, the inauthentic—is not merely a deviation from reality; it is, fundamentally, a relative and socially constructed phenomenon. Increasingly, what we label as "fake" is not defined by its distance from truth, but by the consensus that allows it to inhabit the space of belief. It is sanctioned fiction, clothed in certainty. In contemporary political and cultural ... Read more

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  • Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Human Consciousness and Agency in the Age of Machinic Simulation

    Artificial Intelligence, #1

    by Sergio Torres-Martínez ...
    Series Book 1 - Artificial Intelligence
    The rise of generative AI (GenAI), exemplified by ChatGPT and Claude, has triggered profound debates about technology's impact on humanity. These systems, while powerful, lack embodied cognition, challenging assumptions about agency, creativity, and intelligence. This book critiques reductive narratives equating computational fluency with understanding, emphasizing the biological and intentional ... Read more

    $39.55 USD

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  • Research Methods in Linguistics

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    A comprehensive guide to conducting research projects in linguistics, this book provides a complete training in state-of-the-art data collection, processing, and analysis techniques. The book follows the structure of a research project, guiding the reader through the steps involved in collecting and processing data, and providing a solid foundation for linguistic analysis. All major research ... Read more

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  • How Deeply Human Is Language?

    Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy

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  • Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

    by Robert D. Rupert ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint products of brain, body, and environment. ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Applications Of Cognitive Science

    by Alvin I. Goldman ...
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  • Bilingualism

    The Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic Interface

    by Joel Walters ...
    In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically. Joel Walters proposes a new approach to bilingualism processing--the Sociopragmatic ... Read more

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  • Linguistics: Foundations, Branches, Methods, and Modern Directions

    by Ridha Rouabhia ...
    Here is the book description:Linguistics: Foundations, Branches, Methods, and Modern DirectionsLanguage is the most distinctly human of all our capacities — and yet, for most of us, it remains invisible. We speak, listen, read, and write without pausing to wonder how any of it works. This book pauses. It asks the questions that linguists have spent centuries trying to answer: What is language? How ... Read more

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