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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Good Minus. First Edition. [ART HISTORY]. Richard Hubbard Howland, Anna Lea, Karl E. Meyer, William St. Clair, David A. Walden, John Henry Merryman, Stephen G. Miller, Alexandros Mantis, et al. "The Destiny of the Parthenon Marbles: Proceedings from a Seminar Sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage Held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 13, 1999." Washington DC: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 2000. First edition. English language. Softcover with pictorial wrappers. Nonfiction collection of five art historical articles on the Parthenon Marbles with introduction, preface, and black-and-white illustrations. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 7 oz. 114 pp. Shelf-wear to wrappers. Ink underlining throughout. Good Minus to Fair. No ISBN. ASIN: B001B3UDGG. "The Elgin Marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece in the early 19th century and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London. The majority of the sculptures were created in the 5th century BC under the direction of sculptor and architect Phidias.".…

Condition: Very Good. First. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: NF. 1st Edition. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket . 6.8 X 1.1 X 9.5 inches. 374 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Clean. Previous owner name inside front cover. Scuffing and curling to edges of the cover. A few pencil annotations.

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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:0198524196.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 148 pages. Cover worn.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. A collection of essays in which psychologists examine the evolution of the human mind, addressing questions of language origins, theory of mind, social intelligence, consciousness, and what distinguishes human cognition from that of other primates. Keywords: Theory of Mind, Language Origins, Primate Intelligence, Tool Use, Episodic Memory, Social Mind, Cognitive Evolution, Human Consciousness, Hominid Psychology, Continuity Discontinuity, Evolutionary Trajectory, Deep Social Mind.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution (1999) ? Michael C. Corballis and Stephen E. G. Lea Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198524199 Condition: Very Good Sold by: Crappy Old Books How a Bunch of Apes Developed Brains, Invented Civilisation and Eventually Created Reality Television Somewhere in the distant African past, millions of years before smartphones, income tax, motorway service stations and the invention of management consultancy, something quite extraordinary began happening inside the heads of our ancestors. Their brains were changing. Their behaviour was becoming more complicated. They were developing new ways of understanding the world, manipulating objects, communicating with one another and generally making themselves rather more troublesome than the average mammal. Eventually, this process produced human beings: creatures capable of composing symphonies, developing quantum mechanics, exploring outer space and spending forty-five minutes trying to remember why they walked into the kitchen. How did this happen? Why did the human mind evolve in the particular way that it did? What separates human intelligence from that of other animals? And at what point did our ancestors stop behaving like ordinary apes and begin developing the psychological peculiarities that would eventually lead to philosophy, organised religion, international warfare and people arguing with strangers on the internet? These are some of the enormous questions explored in The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution , edited by Michael C. Corballis and Stephen E. G. Lea and published by Oxford University Press. Bringing together research and perspectives on the evolution of human cognition, this scholarly collection examines one of the most remarkable developments in natural history: the emergence of the human mind from the evolutionary processes that shaped our ancestors. It is a subject of considerable scientific importance, not least because the human brain is responsible for practically everything we are proud of, along with a truly astonishing proportion of everything we should probably be embarrassed about. Evolution?s Most Complicated Piece of Grey Porridge Charles Darwin famously demonstrated that humanity was not exempt from the evolutionary processes governing the rest of the natural world. This was an unsettling proposition for Victorian society, which had spent centuries regarding human beings as rather special and was not especially delighted to discover that the family tree included creatures with unusually hairy relatives. Yet explaining the evolution of the human body is only part of the story. The development of the mind presents an even more complicated challenge. Bones and teeth fossilise. Stone tools survive. Ancient footprints can remain preserved for millions of years. Unfortunately, thoughts, memories, intentions and embarrassing personal fantasies do not leave much of an archaeological record. Nobody has yet excavated a prehistoric opinion. Consequently, scientists investigating the evolution of human psychology must draw upon evidence from several different disciplines, including evolutionary biology, comparative psychology, primatology, anthropology, neuroscience and the study of human behaviour. The Descent of Mind approaches this challenge through psychological perspectives on hominid evolution, examining how cognitive capacities may have developed and how the behaviour of our evolutionary relatives can help illuminate the origins of our own mental abilities. The resulting questions are fascinating. How did our ancestors acquire increasingly sophisticated mental representations of their surroundings? What evolutionary pressures favoured enhanced learning, memory and problem-solving? How did social relationships influence intelligence? And why did one lineage of primates eventually develop the capacity to contemplate its own existence, while others remained apparently content to concentrate on food, reproduction and avoiding predators? Although, given the modern human condition, the latter arrangement arguably has certain advantages. Before Language, There Was Probably a Great Deal of Pointing One of the most intriguing aspects of human evolution concerns the development of communication and language. Human beings possess an extraordinary ability to communicate complex ideas, describe imaginary events, discuss the distant past and make elaborate promises concerning things they have absolutely no intention of doing. But language did not simply arrive one afternoon, fully formed, complete with grammar, irregular verbs and the English spelling system. Its evolutionary origins remain a subject of scientific investigation and debate. The psychological study of hominid evolution asks how increasingly sophisticated communication might have developed from the cognitive and social abilities of earlier ancestors. Understanding the relationship between language, memory, symbolic thought and social behaviour is central to understanding what makes human cognition distinctive. Our nearest living relatives are capable of remarkably sophisticated behaviour, including communication, social learning and problem-solving. Yet human language permits an extraordinary flexibility of expression, allowing knowledge to accumulate and circulate between individuals and across generations. It also permits the production of sentences such as ?Your call is important to us?, which demonstrates that evolutionary advancement is not necessarily accompanied by sincerity. The emergence of sophisticated communication was potentially transformative. Information could be exchanged, relationships negotiated, activities coordinated and experience transmitted beyond the immediate circumstances in which it was acquired. At some stage, our ancestors became capable of doing rather more than responding to the world directly. They could increasingly think about t. …

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK. Clean & tight & flat. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SM8.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987. XXIII,627 pp. Hardcover. Good. #0521268729. [171240].

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 626 Seiten Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1040. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 214 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New. pp. 652.