Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: fernando vidal

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  • ENDANGERMENT, BIODIVERSITY AND CULTURE
    FERNANDO VIDAL AND NÉLIA DIAS
    The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an impending threat and opens the way for preservation stra...

    $1,420.00

  • PERFORMING BRAINS ON SCREEN
    FERNANDO VIDAL
    Performing Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains in two chief ways: by turning physical brains into protagonists, as in the brain movies of the 1950s, which show terrestrial...

    $1,240.00

  • BEING BRAINS
    FERNANDO VIDAL / FRANCISCO ORTEGA
    This "interesting, informative, and provocative book" explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and "the view that we are essentially our brains" (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).   Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which came to prominence in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, t...

    $251.00

  • THE SCIENCES OF THE SOUL
    FERNANDO VIDAL
    Fernando Vidal’s trailblazing text on the origins of psychology traces the development of the discipline from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Originally published in 2011, The Sciences of the Soul continues to be of wide importance in the history and...

    $751.38