Böcker av Stephen Wilson

Our concern with the mind and how the hurt mind can be healed has led to a massive growth of interest in psychology and the way our brains work. This work brings together key writings on the mind from Plato and the Buddha, through Shakespeare, Descartes and Freud, to the discoveries in neuroscience.

Offers an overview of the art being made at the cutting edge of scientific research. This book shows how some of the world's most dynamic art is produced not in museums, galleries and studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and technological advances.

This book provides a descriptive and analytical account of the behaviour of coverbs in Wagiman.

This volume provides an introduction to many-body methods in electronic structure theory. It also offers an account of Brillouin-Wigner methodology as it has been developed in recent years to handle the multireference correlation problem.

Corsica is associated in many people's minds with vendetta and banditry, but these phenomena have not been studied systematically. Using accounts by visitors and officials and particularly judicial records, this book provides such a study for the nineteenth century.

Compact INTRODUCING guide on the debates surrounding psychoanalysis's most contested figure. Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture. Yet the man and his work continually attract scandal, outrage and scientific suspicion. Was he a psychological genius or a peddler of humbug? Despite his atheism, did he invent a new religious cult? Is he to blame for disguising the prevalence of sexual abuse? Is there an Oedipus Complex? Was he a drug addict? A wittily illustrated glimpse behind the demonised myths to the heart of a red-hot debate.