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		Distinctiveness and Memory
				Social Studies
		R Reed HuntJames B (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2006 476 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0195169662
		Published Price £52.00		Sale Price £7.99
	Research relevant to the topic of distinctiveness and memory dates back over 100 years and boasts a literature of well over 2,000 published articles. Throughout this history, numerous theories have been offered and subsequently refined. Comprising 19 essays in five sections, covering the basic concepts, bizarreness, implicit memory tests, distinctiveness in the social context and neuroscience, this volume presents an historical overview of the subject, the results of current research and several new theories.
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		Memory and Popular Film
				Social Studies
		Paul Grainge (Edited by)
		Manchester University Press 2003 261 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0719063752
		Published Price £14.99		Sale Price £2.99
	These 12 essays discuss the status and function of memory in cultural life through topics such as film festivals and the revival of classic Hollywood, films and the Vietnam war, and John Sayles's Lone Star. Inside Popular Film series.
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		Memory and Popular Film
				Social Studies
		Paul Grainge (Edited by)
		Manchester University Press 2003 261 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0719063744
		Published Price £45.00		Sale Price £3.99
	These 12 essays discuss the status and function of memory in cultural life through topics such as film festivals and the revival of classic Hollywood, films and the Vietnam war, and John Sayles's Lone Star. Inside Popular Film series. No jacket.
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		The Wisdom Paradox
		How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older		Social Studies
		Elkhonan Goldberg
		Free Press 2005 337 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0743275969
		Published Price £10.99		Sale Price £2.99
	When they were at an age when 'senior moments' tend to become ever more frequent, some of the world's greatest leaders and artists - from Goethe to Ronald Reagan - achieved their most remarkable successes. Neurophysicist Elkhonon Goldberg explains why this might be, presenting scientific evidence which suggests that a decline in short-term memory goes together with an increasing mental strength which enhances our ability to make decisions.
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		Mind and Mechanism
				Social Studies
		Drew McDermott
		MIT 2001 262 pages		Qty
		Hardback 026213392X
		Published Price £23.95		Sale Price £8.99
	Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which separate the physical and mental realms. He then surveys what has been accomplished in artificial intelligence, clearly differentiating what we know how to build from what we can imagine building. McDermott then details a computational theory of consciousness - claiming that the mind can be modeled entirely in terms of computation - and deals with various possible objections.
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		Intelligence, Race and Genetics
		Conversations with Arthur R Jensen		Social Studies
		Frank Miele
		Westview 2002 244 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0813342740
		Published Price £16.99		Sale Price £7.99
	In a series of provocative conversations, the renowned psychologist Frank Miele describes the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence and discusses topics such as racial differences in IQ, cultural bias in IQ tests and the nature/nurture debate. Scruffy jacket.
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		Jung and Reich
		The Body as Shadow		Social Studies
		John P Conger
		North Atlantic 2005 222 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1556435444
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	In this study, John Conger, a teacher of bioenergetic analysis, explores the lives and significant ideas of two principal figures of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, who never met, although they were contemporaries. The book's treatment of their personalities and points of view - as well as what they might have learned from one another - offers at once a deep, comparative biography and a thorough assessment of their theories. First published in 1988; this second edition includes a new preface and introduction.
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		Fugitive Minds
		On Madness, Sleep and Other Twilight Afflictions		Social Studies
		Antonio Melechi
		Heinemann 2003 368 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0434010073
		Published Price £18.99		Sale Price £3.99
	Recent advances in the biological sciences suggest that we are about to unlock many of the mysteries of mental illness, sleep and trance. Melechi argues that this materialist vision of the human mind and behaviour promises more than it can deliver. Drawing on fiction, poetry, memoirs and case histories, he examines 'twilight afflictions' ranging from lovesickness to the enigmatic Capgras' syndrome, lucid dreaming to alien abduction, revealing many 'illnesses' to be as much cultural as physical.
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		The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews
		and his Visionary Madness		Social Studies
		Mike Jay
		Bantam 2003 306 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0593049977
		Published Price £12.99		Sale Price £3.99
	1790s London, aghast at the French post-revolutionary Terror that is pushing both nations towards war, is full of agitators, 'terrorists' armed with a machine called the Air Loom with which they control the minds of their victims. Who says so? A Welsh tea merchant called James Tilly Matthews, incarcerated in Bedlam, the world's most notorious madhouse. Mike Jay's authentic story of one of psychiatry's most bizarre and complex delusions reads like a gripping detective story.
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