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Book Bricks and Mortar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clemens Meyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781910695197
  • Pages : 653 pages

Download or read book Bricks and Mortar written by Clemens Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise and fall of one man from football hooligan to large-scale landlord and service- provider for prostitutes to, ultimately, a man persecuted by those he once trusted. But we also hear other voices: many different women who work in prostitution, their clients, small-time gangsters, an ex-jockey searching for his drug-addict daughter, a businessman from the West, a girl forced into child prostitution, a detective, a pirate radio presenter... In his most ambitious book to date, Clemens Meyer pays homage to modernist, East German and contemporary writers like Alfred Döblin, Wolfgang Hilbig and David Peace but uses his own style and almost hallucinatory techniques. Time shifts and stretches, people die and come to life again, and Meyer takes his characters seriously and challenges his readers in this dizzying eye-opening novel that also finds inspiration in the films of Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noé and David Lynch.

Book Brick and Mortar

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  • Author : Stacia Phillips
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-02-05
  • ISBN : 1365718093
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Brick and Mortar written by Stacia Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A failed relationship and a full-time job leave little time to kindle friendships let alone a love life. When Brecken Bristow is left with a farm full of animals and no way to properly care for them, help comes in a large package. Six foot two, one hundred ninety pounds of pure man who will do anything to help her keep her farm.

Book The Adaptable Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Zerilli
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-11-20
  • ISBN : 0190067896
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Adaptable Mind written by John Zerilli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has been the idea of the mind as a modular system-that is, one consisting of functionally specialized subsystems responsible for processing different classes of input, or handling specific cognitive tasks like vision, language, logic, music, and so on. However, one of the major achievements of neuroscience has been the discovery that the brain has incredible powers of renewal and reorganization. This "neuroplasticity," in its various forms, has challenged many of the orthodox conceptions of the mind which originally led cognitive scientists to postulate hardwired mental modules. This book examines how such discoveries have changed the way we think about the structure of the mind. It contends that the mind is more supple than prevailing theories in cognitive science and artificial intelligence acknowledge. The book uses language as a test case. The claim that language is cognitively special has often been understood as the claim that it is underpinned by dedicated-and innate-cognitive mechanisms. Zerilli offers a fresh take on how our linguistic abilities could be domain-general: enabled by a composite of very small and redundant cognitive subsystems, few if any of which are likely to be specialized for language. In arguing for this position, however, the book takes seriously various cases suggesting that language dissociates from other cognitive faculties. Accessibly written, The Adaptable Mind is a fascinating account of neuroplasticity, neural reuse, the modularity of mind, the evolution of language, and faculty psychology.

Book Brick

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book Brick written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Words in the Mind

Download or read book Words in the Mind written by Jean Aitchison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. Explores the latest insights into the complex relationship between language, words, and the human mind, creating a rich and revealing resource for students and non-specialists alike Addresses the structure and content of the human word-store – the ‘mental lexicon’ – with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers Features a wealth of new material, including an all-new chapter focusing exclusively on the brain and language, and enhanced coverage of lexical corpora – computerized databases – and on lexical change of meaning Incorporates numerous updates throughout, including expansion of many notes and suggestions for further reading Comprises state-of-the-art research, yet remains accessible and student-friendly

Book The Clay worker

Download or read book The Clay worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.

Book The Builder

Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Court of Appeals  Records and Briefs

Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 218 NY 351 (Bradley v. McDonald)

Book Case on Appeal Volume IV   Testimony

Download or read book Case on Appeal Volume IV Testimony written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Osteopathic Physician

Download or read book The Osteopathic Physician written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Clayworker

Download or read book The British Clayworker written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 70802

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  • Author : Charlie T Smith
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2020-12-04
  • ISBN : 1662411367
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book 70802 written by Charlie T Smith and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a practiced belief that it takes a community to raise the youth of that community. But what happens to the youth of that community if the people of the community and the very soil the community is built on are corrupted? Vietnam G. Franklin, also known as Li'l One Gone, was conceived through a mixture of heated passion laced with a dose of intoxicants. Born into a community rampant with crime and violence, a place where the consumption of illegal drugs is more prevalent to the substance of life to the occupants of the community than food and water are; trying to find his way; rejected, ridiculed, and despised by his peers; an introvert by circumstance roaming the streets solo, trying to find his way, Li'l One Gone often finds himself in the company of the neighborhood movers and shakers. Pulled in under their wings, thrown into the hustle and bustle of the streets, schooled by them on the ways of the game and the arts of the streets called the life, will Li'l One Gone rise to the top of the cesspool of the streets, or will he be met with the same fate of the ones who tucked him in underneath their wings?

Book Bricks  the Ideology of a Simple Mind

Download or read book Bricks the Ideology of a Simple Mind written by Eliot Wyngate and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to learn from other people's mistakes, you can't possibly make them all yourself." Eliot Wyngate grew up in an average, modern day American family. Through experiencing a wide range of emotions and crossing paths with many "hero's", Eliot has learned that dealing with life's problems is very simple. Awareness of Human Nature and the ability to tolerate others is the mortar that holds the bricks together.

Book Bricks and Mortar

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  • Author : Jeffrey Scarborough
  • Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781575867397
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bricks and Mortar written by Jeffrey Scarborough and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How a group of true believers built the best high school in the world without laying a single brick. " In this book, Scarborough and Ravaglia discuss the motivation, creation, and evolution of the Stanford Online High School during its initial seven years. In what some have described as the school s use of twenty-first century technologies to deliver a twelfth century education, the SOHS has redefined what is possible in an online setting drawing on that format to set a modern standard for rigorous high-school education. While such phrases at first seem to belie the essence of the SOHS, Scarborough and Ravaglia offer the story of the school in support of the strongly contrarian position that dynamic use of technology in education is not exclusive of the best traditional methodologies. "

Book Flatbellies

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  • Author : A. B. Hollingsworth
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2003-04-17
  • ISBN : 0393324206
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Flatbellies written by A. B. Hollingsworth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SET IN A SMALL OKLAHOMA TOWN in the mid-1960s, partly about the seemingly unreachable goal of a high school golf team: to win the state championship.

Book Brick and Clay Record

Download or read book Brick and Clay Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Elephant in the Brain

Download or read book The Elephant in the Brain written by Kevin Simler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is the elephant in the brain. Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly - to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights. Then, once everything is clearly visible, we can work to better understand ourselves: Why do we laugh? Why are artists sexy? Why do we brag about travel? Why do we prefer to speak rather than listen? Our unconscious motives drive more than just our private behavior; they also infect our venerated social institutions such as Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, and Religion. In fact, these institutions are in many ways designed to accommodate our hidden motives, to serve covert agendas alongside their official ones. The existence of big hidden motives can upend the usual political debates, leading one to question the legitimacy of these social institutions, and of standard policies designed to favor or discourage them. You won't see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.