An account of a journey across the Sahara, from the Atlantic to the Nile travelling alone and by camel, which was driven by the author's need to touch the limits of fear.

Kritik der Verhaltensforschung ;: Konrad Lorenz und seine Schule, (Beck'sche Schwarze Reihe) (German Edition)

Reference

Roth, Gerhard

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Beck

Winterreise (English and German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Can one fully understand the mechanisms of brain evolution? Why have some brains become large and complex, and others small and simple, while still others have remained the same for hundreds of millions of years? Where, how, and why did cognition evolve? Is there any definable relationship between cognitive function and brain structure and function? These are just some of the questions posed by the contributing authors of this unique book. By bringing together two intrinsically related topics-the structural evolution of the brain and the concomitant evolution of cognitive functions-Brain Evolution and Cognition addresses the much debated topic of brain evolution, cognitive functions, and the relationship between them. Uniting information on structural brain variability and cognitive aspects in one text, this book provides a survey of the current status of what is known about animal cognition and its relationship to the underlying diversity of brain structures. This volume cuts across boundaries by introducing data on various species and also: * Reviews developmental and adult brain organization in an evolutionary context * Presents case studies of vertebrate brain evolution * Offers an overview of cognition from neural basis to behavior * Is accessible to a broad range of readers with its nontechnical writing style * Includes lavish illustrations for a clear and concise presentation of concepts With contributions by world-renowned leaders in their fields, Brain Evolution and Cognition is an indispensable reference for neuroanatomists, neuroethologists, evolutionary biologists, developmental biologists, neurologists, neuroscientists, zoologists, and cognitive and behavioral psychologists.

Brain Evolution and Cognition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wullimann, Mario F.

Psychology & Counseling

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

<p>Ascher, a city doctor, leaves his wife and child and flees to the village of Obergreith, Styria, where he assumes a false identity. He has been found guilty of malpractice and now hopes to come to terms with his feelings of guilt and dis-orientation. Although Ascher tries to maintain his distance from the villagers, he is immediately included in country life and its rituals. Slowly he overcomes his alienation until he finally reassumes his old identity and resumes his medical practice among the villagers.<P>The novel does not present an idealized depiction of life in the country. Ascher witnesses the hardship and destructive uniformity of rural existence; its resulting fatalism, resignation, and latent aggressions. When the possible threat of a rabies epidemic leads to an orgy of killing, the hunt takes on allegorical meaning, symbolizing the barely suppressed violence and brutality which govern life -- not only in the country.</p>

The Calm Ocean (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT TRANSLATION SERIES)

Schreckenberger, Helga

Contemporary

Ariadne Pr

Gerhard Roth’s first "novel," originally published in 1972, is a triumphant refutation of the death of modernism: a lucid, morbid and impossible account of what cannot be said, a deranged existence pieced together, an individual at total odds not only with the world and its structures, but with the chemical and biological basis of his own thought.

The Autobiography of Albert Einstein/Begins on Page 9 No Capitalization or Indentation

Biographies & Memoirs

Atlas Pr

Hell Is Empty - And All the Devils Are Here!

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ariadne Press

There Is No Evil Angel But Love

Fiction. Translated from the German by Tristram Wolff. The latest release in Burning Deck's Dichten series focusing on contemporary German writers, THE WILL TO SICKNESS is Gerhard Roth's classic 1973 novella. It reveals Roth's "objective prose" at its finest, where aggregates of particular impressions merge with a quasi-scientific emphasis on individual minute details. The effect of this prose is surreal with an undertone of Angst that perceives anything as strange and menacing, the product of a hard-edged exploration of the strangeness of perception itself. "Shutting the window Kalb caught sight of himself for a moment in the mirror of the windowpane: his eyeballs looked exactly like a set of fried eggs"-from THE WILL TO SICKNESS.

The Will To Sickness

Burning Deck

Winterreise (German Edition)

S.Fischer

Der Plan: Roman (German Edition)

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