Nerve cells - Synapses and drugs - Development and evolution of the brain - Vision - Sensory systems - Movement - Sleep - Hormones and sexual behaviour - Learning and memory - Genetics and evolution - Lateralization and language - Brain damage - Mood disorders - Schizophrenia - Use of animals and human subjects in neuroscience research - Split brain_______________ Forlag: Wadsworth Publishing Company Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sprog: Engelsk
-- Invite babies and toddlers to touch and feel a variety of exciting textures, helping develop both sensory and language awareness -- These sturdy board books contain bright and simple illustrations that add to the "hands-on" fun. Forlag: Usborne Books Udgivelsesår: 1999 Sider: 10 Sprog: Engelsk
Key Stage 2/3 Literacy Games These fun multi-sensory games should jumpstart pupils' enthusiasm for learning. The games will: help busy teachers save time using photocopiable spreads; consolidate pupils' previous learning; and stimulate pupils' memory. Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sprog: Engelsk
How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain. A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter “J” as shimmering magenta or the number “5” as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in one in twenty people, and is even more common among artists. One famous synesthete was novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who insisted as a toddler that the colors on his wooden alphabet blocks were “all wrong.” His mother understood exactly what he meant because she, too, had synesthesia. Nabokov's son Dmitri, who recounts this tale in the afterword to this book, is also a synesthete—further illustr
Never before has this conceptual model of analysis and treatment been presented in one text! This practical text presents a framework for the assessment and treatment of adults with neurological dysfunction. Emphasis is placed on identifying disabilities and their underlying impairments. Readers will learn to understand and assess disabilities and impairments through detailed review of the anatomy of movement, and through discussion of the basic concepts of treatment. Coverage includes the four most common impairments: weakness, balance dysfunction, incoordination, and sensory/perceptual loss. The text's unique problem-solving approach is from the perspective of the physical therapist as movement scientist -- readers develop problem solving skills that can be used to assess any patient. Titel: Neurological disabilities : assessment and treatment Forfattere: Susan E. Bennett,James L. Karn
Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, a series of dots multiplies, grows, or changes color by pressing, tilting, or blowing on the previous page. The longest-running picture book on the New York Times bestseller list, now in a bestselling board book!"Tullet's brilliant creation proves that books need not lose out to electronic wizardry; his colorful dots perform every bit as engagingly as any on the screen of an iPad.... The joy is in the tacit agreement between artist and reader that what's happening is magic. Shh! Don't tell."—Publishers Weekly Hervé Tullet's delightful sensory books have sold millions of copies around the world. Here is his beloved Press Here book in a board book edition just right for toddlers, preschoolers, and early readers. Press the yellow dot on the cover of this interactive children's book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon
As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave is unwillingly apprenticed to an ancient necromancer. Her tormentor has bound her with a curse forged from blood and spirit. But salvation could lie in arcane writings her tutor has hidden on the war-torn continent.. Jesse Bullington casts his own macabre spell over the late middle ages in a work that becomes compulsive, amusing and horrifying in quick succession. Praise for Jesse Bullington's previous work includes: * 'Darkly funny, profane, erudite, bawdy, and wickedly original' Jeff VanderMeer * 'As the antithesis of conventional fantasy, this is a tour de force' Telegraph * 'A quite extraordinary piece.. one of the books of the year' SFRevu.com * 'Raucous, lewd, and grisly' Esquire. Forlag: Orbit Udgivelsesår: 2011 Sider: 442 Sprog: Engelsk
Historien om organiseringen af landets handels- og kontorfunktionærer, der udfører en bred vifte af opgaver i det offentlige Danmark. For interesserede i fagbevægelsens historie Titel: Papirnussere, skrankepaver og blanketfinker : 100 års kamp om organisering og faglig identitet på velfærdsstatens kontorer Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: Kontorfolket i kommuner og regioner har måttet lægge ører til meget gennem tiden og står altid for skud, når politikere skal pege på, hvordan velfærden kan forbedres, uden at det koster noget: ned med bureaukrati og administration. HK Kommunal, som sporer sin begyndelse til 13. maj 1923, organiserer denne udskældte gruppe offentligt ansatte, som dækker over en bred vifte af fagligheder og typer af arbejdspladser. Man finder HK'ere i forvaltninger og jobcentre, på lokale biblioteker, arkiver og museer, på hospitaler og skoler. Type: Hardcover
