Wired for Culture

Reducere. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth--namely, the culture i...

What explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small areas? Why do we rejoice in rit...

The nature/nurture question is an age-old problem. Beyond Evolutionary Psychology deals with the relation between culture, evolution, psychology an...

A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future "realities" of this emerging technology: ho...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this gripping expose of our cyber-centric, attention-deficient life, journalist Maggie Jackson argues that we are eroding our capacit...

ADHD. dyslexia. autism. the number of illness categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With s...

Reducere. that tongued belonging, the newest book from award-winning Mtis poet Marilyn Dumont, is a collection of poems which search for acceptance in langua...

Reducere. DescriptionThis "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping o...

Reducere. The first definitive biography of the ultimate American rock bandHow did a pair of little Dutch boys trained in classical music grow up to become t...

Reducere. We may say we want to be inclusive, but what if we really don't? What if our brains are hard-wired for selfishness and similarity and not for diver...

Reducere. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men's and women's br...

DescriptionWhen the late Ruggero J. Aldisert wrote Winning on Appeal in 1992, it became an instant classic in law school classrooms and appellate l...

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