Author: Ian Ford Publisher: Ian Ford Software Corp ISBN: 0615426190 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 220
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Autistic people often live in a state of anxiety and confusion about the social world, running into misunderstandings and other barriers. This book unlocks the inner workings of neurotypical behavior, which can be mysterious to autistics. Proceeding from root concepts of language and culture through 62 behavior patterns used by neurotypical people, the book reveals how they structure a mental map of the world in symbolic webs of beliefs, how those symbols are used to filter perception, how they build and display their identity, how they compete for power, and how they socialize and develop relationships--
Author: Terence Dickinson Publisher: Camden East, Ont. : Camden House ISBN: 9780921820871 Category : Extraterrestrial beings Languages : en Pages : 0
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Examines the images we have absorbed from popular culture and explains how the variety of environments in the universe could give rise to such unusual creatures.
Author: Abel Abelson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 164
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Everything you wanted to know about neurotypicals, but didn't know whom to ask... "Neurotypical" or "normie" isn't a concept you'll find in highbrow psychology or sociology, and that's understandable ... but also a damn shame. Because for something that doesn't exist, they can be a real PITA. But why is that? Who are they, and what makes them tick? And how can we, neuroatypicals, learn to handle them better? With its pointy sarcasm "How to handle neurotypicals" will instantly deflate your frustration, anger, and depression. Its truckloads of life-saving insights and poignant realizations will change the way you see and handle neurotypicals forever. Like a zoologist on a mission, Abel Abelson delves into their behavior, their brains, and their minds, uncovering how and why these normies act and think the crazy way they do. No taboos, but things exactly as they are, raw and uncut. As a bonus, each description comes with its rule for survival, ready for you to put into practice. Neurodivergents unite, and let the world become our oyster!
Author: Barry Gibb Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 140935993X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 454
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How does memory work? Are we addicted to television? What is Alzheimer's Disease? Can machines read our minds? The human brain, with all its inherent complexity, has taken on near mythical status. Its 100 billion nerve cells, forged by nature and refined over millions of years, allow humans the capacity to survive, create culture, love. Once an impenetrable grey mass, modern science is getting to grips with our brains at an unprecedented rate. We are moving from a time of anatomy, in which science did well to characterise the various regions of the brain, to a time in which we can observe thought processes in real time. We have entered a neural renaissance. The Rough Guide to the Brain is for anyone who's ever wanted to know more about how their brain and mind works - and what goes wrong when it doesn't. From how we evolved such an impressive organ to how it achieves the feat that is you. Including numerous insights from leaders in their fields, there's no better way to stimulate your grey matter.
Author: Patrick Huyghe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 156
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"Since the late 1800s, there have been numerous documented reports of human encounters with extraterrestrial beings. In this unique and comprehensive volume - the first field guide ever devoted to extraterrestrials reported in UFO incidents - science writer Patrick Huyghe offers a fascinating overview of alien types witnessed throughout the past century. Each event is described in detail, based on eyewitness accounts, and is accompanied by a carefully rendered likeness of the lifeform encountered. With its detailed classification of alien types, The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials is essential reading for anyone who wants to know who "they" are."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Sayaka Murata Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 0802157025 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 188
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An otherworldly coming-of-age tale of a woman who believes she is an alien, from the author of the international sensation Convenience Store Woman. Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and absolutely unforgettable novel. As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents’ ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be an alien, which would explain why she can’t seem to fit in like everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood, and decides to flee the “baby factory” of society for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universe—answers only Natsuki has the power to uncover. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata’s status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe. Praise for Earthlings A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, TIME and Literary Hub Named a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times, TIME, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, Vulture, Wired, Literary Hub, Bustle, PopSugar, and Refinery29 “Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged. . . . Exceptionally fun. . . . Amid all the hedgehog and alien talk is a novel that asks how happiness and freedom can be possible inside a stiflingly anxious world, and its answers, while grotesque, are worth reading.” —Wired “If you’re in the mood for weird, Sayaka Murata is always a reliable place to turn. . . . [Earthlings] centers on Natsuki, a character whose story begins in childhood with her cousin in the mountains and spirals ever more darkly (and bizarrely) into adulthood and its many strange reckonings. This is a story that’s best not to spoil, but it will get into your head.” —Seattle Times “It’s the book’s visceral, grim savagery, and those final shocking pages, that makes this such a vital, powerful novel. . . . Earthlings is the sort of challenging, confronting fiction that wakes you up with a jolt and leaves a lasting impression.” —Locus
Author: Neil L. Whitehead Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 160732170X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of anthropology. Cross-disciplinary research from well-respected contributors makes this volume vital to the understanding of contemporary human interaction. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists but also to students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, identity, and technology.
Author: Christina Jarvis Publisher: Seven Stories Press ISBN: 1644212269 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 312
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A fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental stewardship and our shared connections as humans, Earthlings, and stardust. Vonnegut’s major apocalyptic trio—Cat’s Cradle, Slapstick, and Galápagos—prompt broad global, national, and species-level thinking about environmental issues through dramatic and fantastic scenarios. This book, Lucky Mud and Other Foma, tells the story of the origins and legacy of what Kurt Vonnegut understood as “planetary citizenship” and explores key roots, influences, literary techniques, and artistic expressions of his interest in environmental activism through his writing. Vonnegut saw writing itself as an act of good citizenship, as a way of “poisoning” the minds of young people “with humanity . . . to encourage them to make a better world.” Often that literary activism meant addressing real social and environmental problems—polluted water, soil, and air; racial and economic injustice; isolating and dehumanizing technologies; and lives and landscapes desolated by war. Vonnegut’s remedies took many forms, from the redemptive power of the arts to artificial extended families to vital communities and engaged democracies. Reminding us of our shared connections as humans, as Earthlings, as stardust, Lucky Mud helps fans, scholars, and book lovers of all kinds experience how Vonnegut’s writings purposely challenge readers to think, create, and love.
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