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The Cradle of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)
The Cradle of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)
This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also...
Al- Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
Al- Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
The Muslim thinker al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was one of the most influential theologians and philosophers of Islam and has been considered an authority in both Western and Islamic philosophical traditions. Born in northeastern Iran, he held the most prestigious academic post in Islamic theology in Baghdad, only to renounce the position and teach at...
Spandrels of Truth
Spandrels of Truth
Among the various conceptions of truth is one according to which "is true" is a transparent, entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons. This device, when introduced into the language, brings about truth-theoretic paradoxes (particularly, the notorious Liar and Curry paradoxes). The options for dealing...
Truth as One and Many
Truth as One and Many
What is truth? Michael Lynch defends a bold new answer to this question. Traditional theories of truth hold that truth has only a single uniform nature. All truths are true in the same way. More recent deflationary theories claim that truth has no nature at all; the concept of truth is of no real philosophical importance. In this concise and...
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course promotes the goals of a “transition” course in mathematics, helping to lead students from courses in the calculus sequence to theoretical upper-level mathematics courses. The text simultaneously promotes the goals of a “survey” course, describing the intriguing questions...
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle to treat depression.

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The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of...
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State

1950s: Growing up in the 1940s, Barbara never talked about having been raped by a family member. As a young adult, she went to a psychiatrist who told her that people generally weren’t bothered by incest, and, despite her distress, she let the matter drop.

1982: Several women in their twenties met through a local feminist anti...

The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History

The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was "lost" and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In this fascinating book, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the...

Rational and Irrational Beliefs: Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice
Rational and Irrational Beliefs: Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice

In Rational and Irrational Beliefs: Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice, leading scholars, researchers, and practitioners of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) and other cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs) share their perspectives and empirical findings on the nature of rational and irrational beliefs, the role of beliefs as...

Basic Statistics: Understanding Conventional Methods and Modern Insights
Basic Statistics: Understanding Conventional Methods and Modern Insights

This introductory statistics textbook for non-statisticians covers basic principles, concepts, and methods routinely used in applied research. What sets this text apart is the incorporation of the many advances and insights from the last half century when explaining basic principles. These advances provide a foundation for vastly improving our...

Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi
Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi

It was by accident that the thesis of this book came to be. I had accepted and operated according to the standard critical understanding of the Covenant Code and its relationship to Mesopotamian legal tradition. This viewed the biblical law collection as the result of stages of development over several centuries. The similarities it had with...

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