Violent conflict, with its bloody assault on people and institutions and its invariably debilitating aftermath, is the epitome of ?development in reverse.? Sadly, as the many case studies in this book and other publications amply demonstrate, conflict and poverty are closely interwoven. Conflict blunts, and subsequently unravels, years of hard-won economic and social development. Recent researc…

The Possessed Individual rubs America against contemporary French thought. What results is a dramatic reinterpretation of French theory as a prophetic analysis of the speed-life of the twenty-first century, and a critical rethinking ofthe politics and culture of the technological dynamo. This book is a hinge between the mirror of seduction that is America today and the philosophical ruptures of…

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The twentieth century was undoubtedly the era of democratization and concomitant development of more scientific and sophisticated forms of public relations, particularly in the United States and countries of Western Europe. The 1990s also was the decade of globalization because of the founding of the World Trade Organization and the formation of many regional and trans-region blocs such as NAFT…

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Why, the world asked, did a group of seemingly intelligent individuals, possessing marketable skills, and comfortably housed in an upscale neighborhood, decide to kill themselves? They did it because of their belief that by committing suicide in this manner, they would shed their bodies, or ?earthly containers,? and be whisked away by extraterrestrials to a spaceship and a higher level of exist…

The brain is an organ of communication. Neurons within the brain connect in networks that communicate with each other to provide behavioral function. This network organization is particularly evident with regard to cognitive function, from simple sensorimotor plasticity to attentional, learning and memory processes. Cognitive function involves the participation of diverse brain areas including …

The reader of this book will find within it ideas and models based on my 25 years of experience in clinical, educational, developmental, and medical psychology among Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and Americans, but mainly among Palestinian Arabs. I studied for my master?s degree in clinical psychology at Haifa University in Israel, during which time I received some practical training at Jewish psycholo…

The chapters in this volume are related to the conference, Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution, that was held at the Glendon campus of York University, Toronto, in October of 1993. The original idea for the conference came from a debate on this subject between Jerome Bruner and Stuart Shanker, which appeared in the pages of the journal Language and Communication. As Johnson explains in more de…

This book is about neurophilosophy. It aims to take stock of various philosophical problems concerning the nature of the mind, given the recent bonanza of developments in neuroscience and cognitive science. In finding a path through the thicket of relevant neuroscientific studies and discoveries, I found material assembling itself into two classical categories: metaphysics and epistemology. Eth…