Taking up the age-old question of what our ability to tell stories reveals about language and the mind, this truly interdisciplinary project should be of interest to humanists and cognitive scientists alike.
Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena.
Incisive new study of artillery tactics throughout the Great War Compares artillery tactics of the principal belligerent nations - Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Ital, Turkey, the United States Detailed reconstructions of the role of artillery in key battles including Le Cateau, the Somme, Valenciennes
Une jeune femme anglaise est agressée dans les grottes de Marabar, une enquête s'ensuit. ce fait divers ordinaire sert de point de départ a E.M. Forster (1879-1970) pour bâtir une des œuvres les plus magistrales de la littérature moderne, tout en écrivant le roman de la présence anglaise aux Indes. Maurois comparait cet écrivain à Proust pour la finesse de ses analyses. Le rapprochement semble fondé : il faut redécouvrir Forster.
Why Are We Always On Last? After 15 years steering the BBC's iconic Match of the Day through seismic changes in sport and broadcasting, and a lifetime immersed in football. Paul Armstrong honestly and humorously recalls a career working on seven World Cups and with everyone from Coleman and Clough to Lineker and Shearer.
This book is meant to help bring world peace. It covers over a 130 countries on the planet. It provides ideas, questions and mantras to help people think for themselves. It is probably the best book on peace. My target audiences are politicians and governments.
Why Are We Always Indoors is the ex-editor of Match of the Day's personal chronicle of 105 days without MOTD during the coronavirus pandemic. Musings and anecdotes about sport, TV and music are set against an increasingly disturbing backdrop of ever-growing casualty figures and governmental failures.
Acquire a framework to understand, evaluate and respond to emerging technologies in order to future-proof your organization against technological disruption.