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  • SOLVING PUZZLES WITH NEURAL CREATIVITY
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    SOLVING PUZZLES WITH NEURAL CREATIVITY
    MARCEL DANESI
    This book takes an in-depth look at the tradition of solving puzzles and considers the psychological cause and effect of the "Aha moment": that familiar flash of sudden insight. Everyone loves a good puzzle, but why is this so? Is it because puzzles provide a form of escapism from the routines of daily life? Or do they reveal something fundamental or perhaps even primal about h...

    $1,360.00

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  • PSEUDOLOGY
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    PSEUDOLOGY
    MARCEL DANESI
    In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology unravels the reasons for this by describing a “science of lying” that looks at various aspects of this trait, from how it affects the brain to how it distorts perception. Interest in ...

    $1,120.00

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  • POLITICS, LIES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
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    POLITICS, LIES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
    MARCEL DANESI
    Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is the first to apply cognitive linguistics to the analysis of political lies and conspiracy theories, both of which have flourishe...

    $1,160.00

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  • THE DARK MAFIA
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    THE DARK MAFIA
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them ...

    $1,060.00

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  • USING AI FOR DIALOGUING WITH TEXTS
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    USING AI FOR DIALOGUING WITH TEXTS
    YAIR NEUMAN / MARCEL DANESI / DAN VILENCHIK
    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis, which has historically employed established approaches within the humanities. Ne...

    $580.00

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  • ORGANIZED CRIME
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    ORGANIZED CRIME
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and...

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  • LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY TODAY
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    LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY TODAY
    MARCEL DANESI
    This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. All technical terms are explained and a glossary is provided at the back of the volume. The book looks at the histo...

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  • LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND NEW MEDIA
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    LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND NEW MEDIA
    MARCEL DANESI
    This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, in order to demonstrate how language undergirds human thought and social behaviors. I...

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  • AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUZZLES
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    AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUZZLES
    MARCEL DANESI
    An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from disc...

    $1,240.00

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  • DICTIONARY OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
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    DICTIONARY OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
    MARCEL DANESI
    Accessible to wide range of readers from student to lay people, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentaries. Written by distinguished scholar and author Marcel Danesi, and with an Introduction by Arthur Asa Berger, a leading figure in the world of media and communications, the...

    $4,700.00

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  • ORGANIZED CRIME
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    ORGANIZED CRIME
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book aims to describe and demystify what makes organized criminal groups so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communication methods, origin myths, symbols, and lifestyles that imbue them with the pride and nonchalance that go hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere, in the movies, on television, o...

    $1,160.00

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  • EXTREME BRAIN WORKOUT
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    EXTREME BRAIN WORKOUT
    MARCEL DANESI
    Have fun and power up your mind with these puzzles designed to boost your verbal and logic skills, plus test your IQ. Extreme Brain Workout is a series of puzzles designed to engage the core parts of your brain that are responsible for verbal ability, logical thinking and even your IQ. Each group of puzzles progresses from simple to complex so that they are accessible and chall...

    $119.00

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  • THE TOTAL BRAIN WORKOUT
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    THE TOTAL BRAIN WORKOUT
    MARCEL DANESI
    Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you'll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puz...

    $274.00

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