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In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

Brought to you by Penguin. How do two languages co-exist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few. In The...

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.

In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do, they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children.

Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler - Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning - has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed thousands of students through middle and high schools to study how they learn and to find the most effective ways to unleash the math potential in all students.

The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes covers the exciting concepts, history, and applications of information theory in 24 challenging and eye-opening half-hour lectures taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher of Kenyon College. A prominent physicist and award-winning educator at one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges, Professor Schumacher is also a pioneer in the field of quantum information, which is the latest exciting development in this dynamic scientific field.

Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.

The groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign language. But why do we have this almost magical, special talent? It turns out...

A podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

While cells are commonly considered the building block of living things, it is actually the communication between cells that brings us to life, controlling our bodies and brains, determining whether we are healthy or sick, and directly influencing how we think, feel, and behave. In The Secret Language of Cells, doctor and neuroscientist Jon Lieff lets us listen in on these conversations, and reveals their significance for everything from mental health to cancer.

Taking us beyond the confines of our own experiences, The Color of North traverses the kingdom of life to uncover the myriad ways that proteins shape us and all organisms on the planet. Inside every cell, a tight-knit community of millions of proteins skillfully contorts into unique shapes to give fireflies their ghostly glow, enable the octopus to see predators with its skin, and make humans fall in love.

أنظمة الطاقة ضرورة من ضروريَّات الحياة في مجتمعاتنا المعاصرة. وتشمل أنظمة الطاقة استغلال الوقود الأولي، وتحويله، ونقله إلى نقاط الاستخدام. لكن هذا الوقود يكون في الكثير من الأحيان وقوداً أحفوريـاً؛ يُلحِق ضرراً جسيماً بالبيئة. ولهذا السبب صار تغيير أنظمة الطاقة الحالية أمراً حتميـاً إذا ما أردنا حماية كوكبنا. في هذا الكتاب، يأخذنا نِك جينكنز في رحلةٍ نستكشف خلالَها الجهود التي بذلها البشر في استغلال موارد الوقود الأحفوري. ويناقش الكتاب أيضاً آثار استخدامنا المتزايد للطاقة، والتغييرات الجذرية في تكنولوجيا الوقود، الضروريَّة لمواصلة توفير إمدادات الطاقة على نحو مستدام. ويناقش أيضاً تأثير التحوُّل إلى أنظمة طاقة منخفضة الانبعاثات الكربونية وصديقة للبيئة، قائمة على العديد من مصادر الطاقة المتجدِّدة المختلفة.

""His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one...

Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.

For thousands of years mathematicians solved progressively more difficult algebraic equations, until they encountered the quintic equation, which resisted solution for three centuries. Working independently, two prodigies ultimately proved that the quintic cannot be solved by a simple formula. The first popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a beautifully written and dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest and most intriguing mathematicians in history.

Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.

"One Click Learning – R Programming Language" में आपका स्वागत है, जहाँ हम डेटा साइंस और सांख्यिकी की दुनिया में सबसे लोकप्रिय लैंग्वेज R को आसान भाषा में समझाते हैं। इस शो में आप जानेंगे कि R का उपयोग डेटा विश्लेषण, डेटा विज़ुअलाइज़ेशन, मशीन लर्निंग और ...

Susanne Schötz is hard at work on breaking the cat code. She is a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where a long-standing research program is proving that cats do actually use vocal communication-with each other and with their human caretakers. Understanding the vocal strategies used in human-cat communication will have profound implications for how we communicate with our pets and has the potential to improve the relationship between animals and humans within several fields, including animal therapy, veterinary medicine, and animal sheltering.

حقَّقَت البشريةُ خلالَ السنوات المائتَين الماضية إنجازاتٍ مُبهِرةً، ولكنَّ مَفاهيمَنا عن النموِّ الاقتصادي والتقدُّم والازدهار وصَلَت الآن إلى طريقٍ مَسدود؛ فالبحارُ امتلأَت بالمُخلَّفات البلاستيكية المُتناهِية الصِّغَر، وطعامُنا امتلأ بالمبيدات الكيميائية؛ إنه طريقٌ لا رَجْعةَ منه وتَترتَّب عليه عواقبُ وَخِيمةٌ. لكن، إلى أيِّ مَدى؟ هل يُمكِننا تخيُّلُ العيشِ في عالَمٍ يَتجاوز الاستهلاكَ ويتحكم فيه رأسِ المال والمصلحةَ الذاتية وتحقيقَ أكبرِ قدْرٍ من الأرباح؟ في كتاب «العيش بطريقةٍ مختلفة» يُصبِح التاريخُ حياً، ويَدْعونا إلى اكتشافِ ماضينا من جديد، وأن نفكِّرَ بشكلٍ مختلِفٍ في المستقبَل.