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How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind... Read more
Roughly 1.9 million people are afflicted with Parkinsons disease and, according to the Parkinsons Disease Foundation, that number is on the rise! Parkinsons Disease Treatment Guide for Physicians will comprehensively cover Parkinsons disease (PD), including diagnosis, testing, prognosis, and possible causes... Read more
Headway 5th edition provides fresh, relevant English instruction needed for success today. Headway and its award-winning authors, Liz and John Soars, are names that have become synonymous with English Language teaching and learning... Read more
Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music... Read more
How will English File get your students talking? Lessons and activities provide the language, motivation and opportunity students need to speak conifidently... Read more
The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none... Read more
In this compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe, Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino... Read more
Headway 5th edition provides fresh, relevant English instruction needed for success today. Headway and its award-winning authors, Liz and John Soars, are names that have become synonymous with English Language teaching and learning... Read more
After seven decades of existence has the UN become obsolete? Is it ripe for retirement? As Jussi Hanhimaki proves in the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, the answer is no... Read more
Deep brain stimulation programming (DBS) continues to grow as an effective therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, helping patients reach optimal control of their disorder... Read more
Millions of people are today forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, systematic discrimination, or other forms of persecution... Read more
In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the worlds greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare... Read more
Beginning with music fundamentals, The Complete Musician covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music theory by focusing on music in context... Read more
This textbook describes the physics of semiconductor nanostructures with emphasis on their electronic transport properties... Read more
Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the invention of the novel in the 16th century... Read more
This book grew out of a course of lectures given to third year undergraduates at Oxford University and it has the modest aim of producing a rapid introduction to the subject... Read more
Mentalizing - the ability to understand oneself and others by inferring mental states that lie behind overt behaviour - develops within the context of attachment relationships... Read more
The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages... Read more
The Pre-intermediate course that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other... Read more