Product Description: Consciousness is an active area of both philosophical debates and scientific research. Consciousness Quest, rather than covering the broad spectrum of consciousness spread over multiple scientific disciplines, refocuses the quest for consciousness on a specific area where Eastern contemplative traditions, mostly in Hindu and Buddhist theories of mind, meet Western empirical research...read more

Product Description: Although a number of books have appeared on learning disabili­ ties, we feel that the present book has two distinct features which are not found in most others. It is multidisciplinary and it com­ bines theory with practice. A group of researchers from the disciplines of Psychology in­ cluding medical psychology and information processing, Reading, Special Education and Physical Education interacted with each other before and after their presentations in a conference (November 1980, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), and then wrote their chapters for this book...read more

Product Description: This book is a ready reckoner on dyslexia, a condensed and updated source of information on the subject, for not only teachers and parents, but also for professionals concerned with Learning Disabilities. For the school psychologist, the book is an interpretation that gives pre-eminence to the PASS (Planning-Attention-Simultaneous-Successive) theory of cognitive processes—the four major processes that replace traditional views of IQ and redefine intelligence...read more

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Product Description: Students of psychology will find this a lively, well-illustrated book that answers a basic question: What is psychology about? Dealing with emotion, motivation, personality and intelligence, the psychological basis of behaviour and perception, this book helps us to understand how the mind works, what lies behind ordinary conversations and routine movements and consciousness, neuro-imaging, split-brain, innateness of language, cultural transmission of learning, the origins of higher mental activity, and personality research and intelligence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Pages: 104 (Half-tone Illus: 94, Color Illus: 12)From the JacketPalm-Leaf Miniatures is a study of and a tribute to Raghunath Prusti, an artist who lived about a hundred years ago. He wrote and illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts in Mundamarai, a small village in Ganjam District of southern Orissa late in the nineteenth century...read more

Product Description: This volume contains the Proceedings of an International Conference on Intelligence and Learning held at York University, England, on July 16-20, 1979. The conference was made possible with the support and assistance of the following agencies: NAT 0 Scientific Division, specifically the Human Factors panel, was the major sponsor of the conference...read more