From a neuropsychological perspective, our understanding about how knowledge is organised in the human brain has emerged largely from the study of so-called 'category-specific' deficits in neurological patients. Category-specificity is, in very broad terms, the relative loss of cognitive performance[...]
STATE OF DECAY (Book One) My name is Melody Carter. A Boeing 767 fell from the sky and wiped out most of my neighborhood. But, that's the least of my worries. My list of "Things I'm Most Worried About" shifted dramatically when my dad told me that the charred corpses tried to make a meal out of thei[...]
Why is it so difficult to change our beliefs and behaviors even when we know they no longer serve us? How can certain individuals reverse "incurable" disease while others suffer the effects of childhood wounds despite years of therapy? These are the questions readers will explore in the much-anticip[...]
These pages show you how to trust God even when He seems unresponsive and remote even when, as in the famous incident in the Gospels, He seems to sleep while you are buffeted by the storms of life.[...]
Monday Night Raw is chaos. The championship belt is missing. Announcer tables are destroyed. John Cena's handcuffed to Mark Henry. Wrestling ring ropes are snapped in half. Four Superstars are to blame - CM Punk, Rob Van Dam, Daniel Bryan, and Rey Myterio.? Problem is, none of them can remember a th[...]
"Alice in Wonderland Keepsake Journal," Lewis Carroll's fantastic and zany world of nonsense and impossibilities, now adorns a beautifully unique illustrated journal Fans of "Alice in Wonderland," both old and new, will delight in this beautiful keepsake journal, which pays homage to the ever popula[...]
One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dusty border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Oscar Martinez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar at the time of the abduction, and his story of the mig[...]
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Oscar Martinez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon aft[...]
Some of these women see me as a knight in shining armour, but I'm just a businessman with a heart. Honeytraps and spy phones, sexpionage and integrity testing - Richard Martinez uses it all in his private detective business and reveals his surveillance secrets in this compelling book. It's not just [...]
What can magic tell us about ourselves and our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable conversation, did you know you're using attentional 'misdirection', a core technique of magic? And if you've ever bought an expensive item you'd sworn never to buy, you were probably [...]
During the 1970s, owing to their oil 'rents', Algeria, Iraq and Libya all seemed engaged in a swift modernization process. Oil was the godsend that would enable these states to catch up economically. Algeria was a Mediterranean dragon,A" Libya an emirateA" and Iraq the rising military powerA" of [...]
'This fruitful collaboration touches upon the fundamentals of ecological behaviours and ecological politics...a pleasure to read' - Elmar Altvater, Professor of Political Economy, Free University of Berlin. Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards t[...]
Covers many serious issues which are usually, and quite reasonably, considered unsuitable for inclusion in general coursebooks. This title provides the opportunity for adults to discuss controversial issues.[...]
Designed for speaking and conversation courses at intermediate level, this title aims to help the learner sound more natural in everyday conversations.[...]
Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez (born 1977) has received much critical acclaim over the past few years. Cartoonish and energetic, his expressive paintings (both abstract and figurative) often employ a loosely fixed cast of forms--such as flowers, tabletops, shoes and, most recently, bent yellow[...]