Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, Paperback - Umberto Eco

Reducere. How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on lin...

Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which...

A collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces published in English. Organized into ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Umberto EcoEco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into t...

Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umbert...

In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader--his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the...

Reducere. "Underscores the writer's profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco's pleasure in such explorations i...

A sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written exploration of the concept of beauty, with examples from painting, sculpture, architecture, fil...

Reducere. In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of h...

Reducere. The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name o...

The final collected essays from the author of }The Name Of The Rose{ and }The Prague Cemetery{. These address subjects from across art and culture ...

Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that ma...

Reducere. „Odata cu atmosfera specifica romanelor lui Eco, Numarul zero lasa sa se vada, cu o amara eficienta, partea intunecata a vietii Italiei de la incep...

Reducere. •Autor distins cu Premiul Strega pentru literatura in 1981 Editie noua, cu desenele si insemnarile pregatitoare ale autorului In anul 1327, intr-o ...

Reducere. In anii ’90, un om de afaceri dubios stringe un grup de ziaristi pentru a pregati un numar de proba – numarul zero – al unui cotidian dedicat nu at...

Reducere. Traducere si note de Stefania Mincu Postfata de Marin Mincu Pendulul lui Foucault este un roman elaborat cu ingeniozitate inginereasca, in care mis...

Reducere. Cimitirul din Praga are in centru aventurile misteriosului Simonini, un personaj ciudat, cu lacune de memorie si dubla personalitate. Nu se stie ex...

Reducere. DescriptionA posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture.In Umb...

Reducere. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) a urmat cursurile Universitatii din Torino, luindu-si licenta in estetica. in anii ’60 a fost unul dintre exponentii de fru...

Reducere. Pe umerii gigantilor reprezinta pentru cititorii lui Umberto Eco un eveniment cu totul deosebit. Departe de salile de curs din universitati, de con...

Reducere. Insula din ziua de ieri (1994) este al treilea roman al medievistului si semioticianului Umberto Eco. Roberto della Griva, un tinar nobil italian d...

Reducere. Volumul editat de Gianfranco Marrone reuneste texte pe care Umberto Eco le-a dedicat televiziunii, limbajului ei, formelor de comunicare la care ap...

Reducere. Trei povestiri istorisite de Umberto Eco si ilustrate de Eugenio Carmi, pentru copii, pentru parinti, pentru cei ce au nevoie de basme. BOMBA SI GE...

Fresh insights into the thought and work of the modernist architect, from Loos expert Christopher LongIn this collection of essays, noted architect...

Reducere. Un indrumar complet despre cum se scrie o lucrare stiintifica riguroasa. Studentii, in primul rind cei de la sectiile umaniste, pot afla ce inseamn...

Publisher: Associated University PressesAuthor(s): Jutka DevenyiNumber of pages: 120Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 233 x 148 x 14Cover type: Har...

A comprehensive update to the first monograph on dog behaviour, evolution and cognition.

Reducere. DescriptionThe 5-Minute Linguist provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beg...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Sarah (University of Milan, ItalyComparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, Univer...

Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supp...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyNumber of pages: 634Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 192 x 235 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(...

Reducere. After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he ...

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Reducere. "Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes.... Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and pos...

Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connecte...

The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the su...

Reducere. Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault s Pendulum...

Reducere. Embracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected...

Reducere. Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa Lee FarrallA groundbreaking integrated approach to reading assessmentthat addresses each child's unique Learning Pr...

Focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs - communication and signification - and offers a highly original theory of sign production, i...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. French criminals plan bombings by d...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. French criminals plan bombings by d...

Reducere. DescriptionUmberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the cha...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. UMBERTO ECO INÉDITO Y VISIONARIOUn canto de amor a los libros y a su acumulación obsesiva, por «el escritor que cambió la cultura (Corriere della S...