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By OUP USA
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Author:
Adel K. Afifi, Ronald A. Bergman
By McGraw-Hill Medical
 useful, interesting, educational, excellent reference, 1998-06-29
I bought this book because it was dual-purpose. One, it has understandable text describing neurophysiological pathways. Two, it has a text which had cross sections of the CNS in magnetic resonance and cadaver sections. In addition, to many easy-to-follow, educational diagrams, it has brief one-line summaries of the breadth on each page. It is an excellent choice for a neurological reference text for a library.
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By OUP Oxford
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Author:
John G. Nicholls
By Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
From Neuron to Brain, 2003-03-30
I was recommended this book as part of my pharmacy degree and I have found it extremely useful. The book starst each topic at a basic level and builds up to give more complex ideas, such that someone with a basic knowledge of biology could understand this topic. Each chapter starts with a convenient summary which is very useful.I would strongly reccomend the book to anyone with even a vague interest in the area
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Author:
Steven Pinker
By Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Steven Pinker has a very good ear; you know it instantly from his prose: elegant, accessible and very witty indeed. In Words and Rules, Pinker picks apart our language to reveal pro found truths about how we think. Do we deduce rules from the world around us and behave rationally? Or do we free-associate, discovering the world through experience and creative analogy? The obvious answer is "both". But proof of the obvious answer has long eluded philosophers of mind. Pinker, though, believes he has found it--in the English past tense. English verbs come in two flavours. Regular verbs have past tenses that look like the present-tense verb with "-ed" on the end--today I walk, yesterday I walked, etc. The second kind of English verb is irregular. Irregular past tenses follow no rules--today I buy, but yesterday I bought; today I hold, yesterday I held. The way children distinguish between these different sorts of verbs as they learn to talk suggests they learn both by rule and by association. Proving this is Pinker's task--and it's a bravura performance. It takes nothing away from that other recent lit-hit, Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue, to say that Pinker's book...
A godsend, 2007-01-25
This is a truly brilliant book, in terms of both content and form, which should be in every library. Steven Pinker has the marvellous idea of presenting language and linguistics in the round by concentrating on all the different aspects of regular and irregular verbs. So you get both breadth and depth at the same time, oh so rare in pop science books. Essential for anyone who wants to understand -- and really understand -- language a little more.
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