Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1
Pages: 350
Publish year: 2008
ISBN-10: 0521883938
ISBN-13: 9780521883931

Nonfiction, Political History, Islam, Church & State
This book examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages: 272
Publish year: 2007
ISBN-10: 067402639X
ISBN-13: 9780674026391

Nonfiction, Public Policy, Political Ideologies, Non-US Legal Systems, Government, Islam, Islam
Jihad, with its many terrifying associations, is a term widely used today, though its meaning is poorly

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 208
Publish year: 2008
ISBN-10: 0230606180
ISBN-13: 9780230606180

Nonfiction, International Relations
Shah argues that the concept of self-defense in Islamic and International law is compatible. Al-Qaeda’s declaration of Jihad does not meet the Islamiclegal test. Similarly, the invasion of Iraq does not meet the international legal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 358
Publish year: 2005
ISBN-10: 0521791405
ISBN-13: 9780521791403

Middle East, Nonfiction, Political Science, Religious Studies, Comparative Religion, World, Middle East, Nonfiction, Church & State, Nonfiction
Since September

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Pages: 352
Publish year: 2004
ISBN-10: 1574888498
ISBN-13: 9781574888492

Middle East, Nonfiction, International Relations, United States, Military, Government, United States, Purple Politics
Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting

Publisher: The MIT Press
Pages: 156
Publish year: 2000
ISBN-10:
ISBN-13:

Cognitive Psychology
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a

Publisher: The MIT Press
Pages: 208
Publish year: 2001
ISBN-10: 0262133792
ISBN-13: 9780262133791

Cognitive Psychology
In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel.

Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
Publish year: 2008
ISBN-10: 0415391210
ISBN-13: 9780415391214

Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology, Nonfiction
The Phenomenological Mind is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 480
Publish year: 1996
ISBN-10: 0195106466
ISBN-13: 9780195106466

Physics, Theory of Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Health, Mind & Body
The bestselling author of The Emperor's New Mind offers another exhilarating

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Publish year: 1988
ISBN-10: 0671657135
ISBN-13: 9780671657130

Cognitive Psychology
Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?"
Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny

Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 2
Pages: 272
Publish year: 2003
ISBN-10: 0415290309
ISBN-13: 9780415290302

Science & Research, Metaphysics, Nonfiction, Science & Research
How can the human mind represent the external world? What is is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Does it help to think of the mind as a kind of machine?

Publisher: The MIT Press
Pages: 272
Publish year: 2001
ISBN-10: 0262523175
ISBN-13: 9780262523172

Cognitive Psychology
This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade.

Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 2
Pages: 360
Publish year: 2003
ISBN-10: 0415314534
ISBN-13: 9780415314534

Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology, Nonfiction, Health, Mind & Body
This Second Edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments

Publisher: The MIT Press
Pages: 464
Publish year: 1995
ISBN-10: 0262061783
ISBN-13: 9780262061780

Cognitive Psychology
Recent decades have produced a blossoming of research in artificial systems that exhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does it change the way we think about the mind, or even about who or what has mind? Stan Franklin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Edition: 1
Pages: 568
Publish year: 2005
ISBN-10: 0195139321
ISBN-13: 9780195139327

Science & Research, Science & Research, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Cognitive Psychology, Nonfiction
What holds together the various fields that are supposed to consititute the

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1
Pages: 348
Publish year: 2000
ISBN-10: 0521783313
ISBN-13: 9780521783316

Cognitive Psychology
How did our minds evolve? Can evolutionary considerations illuminate the question of the basic architecture of the human mind? These are two of the main questions addressed in Evolution and the Human Mind by a distinguished interdisciplinary

Publisher: Keats Publishing
Pages: 84
Publish year: 1998
ISBN-10: 0879839678
ISBN-13: 9780879839673

Food Science, Nonfiction, Science & Research, Health, Mind & Body, Health, Mind & Body, Health, Mind & Body
Examines the impact of this potentially dangerous technology on food sources, animals, and our own bodies.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1
Pages: 230
Publish year: 2000
ISBN-10: 0521651476
ISBN-13: 9780521651479

Linguistics, Foreign Languages, Metaphysics, Reference, Nonfiction
This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers

Publisher: The MIT Press
Edition: 1
Pages: 280
Publish year: 2001
ISBN-10: 026213392X
ISBN-13: 9780262133920

Theory of Computing, Cognitive Psychology
In Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness

Publisher: Signet
Pages: 368
Publish year: 1985
ISBN-10: 0451148452
ISBN-13: 9780451148452

Interpersonal Relations, Philosophy, Health, Mind & Body, Health, Mind & Body