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Inner Experience and Neuroscience

Merging Both Perspectives

By: Donald D. Price,James J. Barrell

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Inner Experience and Neuroscience

Merging Both Perspectives

By: Donald D. Price,James J. Barrell

A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscience, Donald Price and James Barrell show how a science of human experience can be developed through a strategy that integrates experiential paradigms with methods from the natural sciences. They argue that the accuracy and results of both psychology and neuroscience would benefit from an experiential perspective and methods. Price and Barrell describe phenomenologically based methods for scientific research on human experience, as well as their philosophical underpinnings, and relate these to empirical results associated with such phenomena as pain and suffering, emotions, and volition. They argue that the methods of psychophysics are critical for integrating experiential and natural sciences, describe how qualitative and quantitative methods can be merged, and then apply this approach to the phenomena of pain, placebo responses, and background states of consciousness. In the course of their argument, they draw on empirical results that include qualitative studies, quantitative studies, and neuroimaging studies. Finally, they propose that the integration of experiential and natural science can extend efforts to understand such difficult issues as free will and complex negative emotions including jealousy and greed.

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MIT Press

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0262304287

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9780262304283

High culture and tall chimneys

Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780–1914

By: James Moore

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High culture and tall chimneys

Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780–1914

By: James Moore

This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised at home and abroad. The book documents the remarkable rise of visual art across the county, along with the rise of the commercial and professional classes who supported it. It examines how Lancashire looked to great civilisations of the past for inspiration while also embracing new industrial technologies and distinctively modern art movements. This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the new industrial society of the nineteenth century, from art lovers and collectors to urban and social historians.

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338

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Manchester University Press

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1526115654

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9781526115652

The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

By: James Gregory

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The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

By: James Gregory

In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.

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288

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350142441

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9781350142442

Psychology of Champions

How to Win at Sports and Life with the Focus Edge of Super-Athletes

By: James J. Barrell,David Ryback

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Psychology of Champions

How to Win at Sports and Life with the Focus Edge of Super-Athletes

By: James J. Barrell,David Ryback

The first book to gather firsthand accounts of successful practices, and thinking habits, of sports legends and super-athletes—from across sports including football, baseball, basketball, boxing, golf, car-racing, and swimming—this work holds lessons that can power not only athletic success, but winning in any daily challenges of life or work. The result of years of research, Psychology of Champions offers the very personal words of star athletes who explain how they overcame such obstacles as fear, discouragement, and anxiety, and were able to move on to success. Each story—including from those of baseball great Ted Williams, basketball star Michael Jordan, football's famed Deion Sanders, and dozens more from across sports —is unique. Yet, the authors determine that, when all is said and done, the overriding variables accounting for the greatest success fall into three categories: motivation, confidence, and concentration. Barrell and Ryback spell out the rules for such success after each section in this absorbing book. The result is a book that not only entertains and educates us with firsthand accounts of ever-popular sports heroes, but also instructs athletes, amateur or professional, and arguably anyone with a goal to achieve in work or life. In-the-moment accounts reveal just what to do in various critical periods of sports competition—from being at bat in baseball, to making an instantaneous decision as a quarterback, firing the winning basket in the dying moments of a game, or launching the winning move in boxing or judo. Barrell and Ryback draw the lessons together in what they term The Focus Edge mindset. That mindset—and this book— says one former Olympian, take greatness and make it accessible to you and me.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313354375

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9780313354373

Picturing Empire

Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

By: James R. Ryan

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Picturing Empire

Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

By: James R. Ryan

Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.

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274

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Reaktion Books

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1780231636

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9781780231631

The Northwest Coast

By: James G. Swan

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The Northwest Coast

By: James G. Swan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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442

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375165471

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9783375165475

Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

From Heresy to Truth

By: James Lawrence Powell

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Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

From Heresy to Truth

By: James Lawrence Powell

Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to accept each theory. The stories behind these four discoveries reflect more than the fascinating push and pull of scientific work. They reveal the provocative nature of science and how it raises profound and sometimes uncomfortable truths as it advances. For example, counter to common sense, the Earth and the solar system are older than all of human existence; the interactions among the moving plates and the continents they carry account for nearly all of the Earth's surface features; and nearly every important feature of our solar system results from the chance collision of objects in space. Most surprising of all, we humans have altered the climate of an entire planet and now threaten the future of civilization. This absorbing scientific history is the only book to describe the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how science works in practice and how it inevitably corrects the mistakes of its practitioners. Scientists can be wrong, but they do not stay wrong. In the process, astonishing ideas are born, tested, and over time take root.

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Columbia University Press

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0231538456

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9780231538459

Compota Thesaurariorum Regum Scotorum. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland

Vol. IV

By: Thomas Dickson,James Balfour Paul,C. T. McInnes,Athol Laverick Murray

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Compota Thesaurariorum Regum Scotorum. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland

Vol. IV

By: Thomas Dickson,James Balfour Paul,C. T. McInnes,Athol Laverick Murray

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385522471

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9783385522473

Health Care Needs Assessment

The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews

By: Dr. Andrew Stevens,James Raftery,Jonathan Mant,Sue Simpson

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Health Care Needs Assessment

The Epidemiologically Based Needs Assessment Reviews

By: Dr. Andrew Stevens,James Raftery,Jonathan Mant,Sue Simpson

Providing vital updates, this two volume set describes the central role and aim of health care needs assessment in the NHS health care reforms, and explains the 'epidemiological approach' to needs assessment, and the effectiveness and availability of services.

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Radcliffe Publishing

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1857758919

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9781857758917

Psychology of Champions

How to Win at Sports and Life with the Focus Edge of Super-Athletes

By: James J. Barrell,David Ryback

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How to Win at Sports and Life with the Focus Edge of Super-Athletes

By: James J. Barrell,David Ryback

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Book's by James J. Barrell

Inner Experience and Neuroscience

Inner Experience and Neuroscience

High culture and tall chimneys

High culture and tall chimneys

The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age

Psychology of Champions

Psychology of Champions

Picturing Empire

Picturing Empire

The Northwest Coast

The Northwest Coast

Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

Compota Thesaurariorum Regum Scotorum. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland

Compota Thesaurariorum Regum Scotorum. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland

Health Care Needs Assessment

Health Care Needs Assessment

Psychology of Champions

Psychology of Champions

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