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Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory by Professor Mary Thomas Crane
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the... -
Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century by Alastair Greig 9781403948243
Booksplease Price: £44.31This major introductory text written by three leading names in the field provides an accessible overview of the challenges faced in overcoming global poverty and inequality in the twenty-first... -
The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach by Barbara Dancygier 9781107005822
Booksplease Price: £111.14How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional... -
The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition Line Cecilie Engh 9781041189206
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38In the Middle Ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage. Nuns - and even some monks - married the bridegroom Christ. Bishops married their sees. The popes, as vicars of Christ,... -
Metaphors of Eucharistic Presence: Language, Cognition, and the Body and Blood of Christ by Stephen R. Shaver
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.41In Metaphors of Eucharistic Presence: Language, Cognition, and the Body and Blood of Christ, Stephen R. Shaver brings together the fields of cognitive linguistics and liturgical theology to propose a... -
The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach by Barbara Dancygier 9781107558618
Booksplease Price: £43.13How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional... -
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things Joel P. Christensen 9780300269239
Booksplease Price: £21.05From Homer's epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own-and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient epic and myth with analogies from biology and the... -
Philosophy In The Flesh by George Lakoff
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.98What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing... -
Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting by Amy Cook
Booksplease Price: £63.25What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film-the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character... -
A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sorensen 9780759110403
Booksplease Price: £43.33Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by... -
A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sorensen 9780759110373
Booksplease Price: £113.11Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by... -
Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta by Klaus Hentschel 9783319952512
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book focuses on the gradual formation of the concept of 'light quanta' or 'photons', as they have usually been called in English since 1926. The great number of synonyms that have been used by... -
Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta by Klaus Hentschel 9783030070014
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book focuses on the gradual formation of the concept of 'light quanta' or 'photons', as they have usually been called in English since 1926. The great number of synonyms that have been used by... -
The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community by Ellen Spolsky 9780190232146
Booksplease Price: £91.17The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the... -
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot by Vera Tobin
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00Why do some surprises delight-the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the... -
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence Angus Fletcher 9780231206921
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan-and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough-starts with... -
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence by Angus Fletcher
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan-and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough-starts with... -
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer 9780141032139
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Be prepared to be amazed' GuardianCan anyone get a perfect memory?Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training,... -
Fictional Minds by Alan Palmer 9780803218352
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the...