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Checkers and Dot on the farm
This sweet and striking book has been designed especially for babies and tots. Welcome to the wonderfully patterned world of Checkers and Dot!
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In What Society Do Fictional Characters Speak? Identifying and Discussing Theoretical Challenges in Sociolinguistic Analyses of Literature
This article examines the use of literary fiction as a source of data for analysing linguistic patterns in social contexts. By highlighting two interconnected methodological challenges in sociolinguistic studies of literary fiction, this study aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on study designs and methods. Building on previous unresolved discussions, it is argued that, firstly, studies that are limited to identifying a fictional text’s mimetic function and drawing real-world-related conclusions from that text risk circular reasoning, thereby contributing little new knowledge. Secondly, the structural unreliability and ambiguity of fictional dialogue often make it problematic to incorporate into sociolinguistic analyses unless its specific conditions are considered. Using scholarly articles as examples, the discussion addresses these challenges to better integrate literary studies and sociolinguistics.
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Look
Illustrations and easy-to-read text urge the reader to be mindful by seeking out patterns in the world around us.
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Functional Neuroimaging: Technical, Logical, and Social Perspectives
Neuroscientists have long sought to study the dynamic activity of the human brain—what's happening in the brain, that is, while people are thinking, feeling, and acting. Ideally, an inside look at brain function would simultaneously and continuously measure the biochemical state of every cell in the central nervous system. While such a miraculous method is science fiction, a century of progress in neuroimaging technologies has made such simultaneous and continuous measurement a plausible fiction. Despite this progress, practitioners of modern neuroimaging struggle with two kinds of limitations: those that attend the particular neuroimaging methods we have today and those that would limit any method of imaging neural activity, no matter how powerful. In this essay, I consider the liabilities and potential of techniques that measure human brain activity. I am concerned here only with methods that measure relevant physiologic states of the central nervous system and relate those measures to particular mental states. I will consider in particular the preeminent method of functional neuroimaging: BOLD fMRI. While there are several practical limits on the biological information that current technologies can measure, these limits—as important as they are—are minor in comparison to the fundamental logical restraints on the conclusions that can be drawn from brain imaging studies.
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Busy bugs : a book about patterns
The busy bugs arrange themselves in different ways to make a show.
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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts
John Ruskin’s claim that what is essential in all art is to fashion by hand what the eye sees clearly, blurred the divide between the fine arts and the decorative arts. Advocating a renewed experience of nature proper to disclose truth to the beholder, he inspired William Morris with a new form of interior design that promoted craftsmanship as a way to counter mass production and restore man’s dignity. The revival of the gothic style was for him a way to renew Victorian culture by emphasizing the close observation of nature, as well as the values of craftsmanship. While the decorative arts created an environment conducive to a better appreciation of natural beauty, they also sheltered the aesthete from the ugliness of the industrial age. Patterns designed by Morris were loved by aesthetes who wanted their homes to mirror their dreams and aspirations and who embraced Walter Pater’s epicurean aesthetics. Pater’s celebration of music in The Renaissance as the ideal towards which all arts aspire, fostered the idea of interior design as a musical composition enhancing pure perception for the aesthetic mind. The essay examines to what extent aesthetic interiors show this ambiguity between the desire to re-discover natural beauty and truth and the retreat into aesthetic dreams.
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Checkers and Dot at the zoo
This sweet and striking book has been designed especially for babies and tots. Welcome to the wonderfully patterned world of Checkers and Dot!
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Neuroscience: Pathway to a New Mythology
Jonah Lehrers Proust Was a Neurosdentist explores the works of writers, a painter, a chef, and a musician in order to discover what areas of neuroscience were imbedded in their creations. While engaging the workings of memory, his study also interrogates the potential for metaphors to anticipate literal realities in neuroscience. Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid explores the invention and history of the first alphabets in three cultures as well as the profound shifts in brain physiology both writing and reading have created in the human mind. Her work also explores reading obstacles such as dyslexia and other forms of impediments that make both reading and writing major blocks to individuals.
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Which is different?
A trio of dinosaurs decides who is holding an item different from the others.
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Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades
[...]non-human autopoietic entities are found both in the Matrix, the virtual reality that figures prominently in each novel, and the physical world of the Sprawl, in the form of 'zaibatsus', the global corporations that transgress public and private space at the expense of traditional governments. [...]McFarlane examines Gibson's stylistic tendency to 'present to the reader a disorganised jigsaw of detritus', which she attributes to the influence of both William Burroughs's infamous 'cut-up' technique and Joseph Cornell's assemblages of found objects. According to McFarlane, this is Gibson's 'most significant work' because it succeeds in 'captur[ing] the affective aftermath' of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US. Pattern Recognition couches that transitional event in terms familiar from McFarlane's previous chapter, presenting the previous world order as a comfortingly familiar Cornell box and the terrorist attacks as a chaotic moment of bifurcation.
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