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1. Emergent Patterns and the Brain

   By Michael Thompson, Saman Sadeghi

   Written by well-respected researchers, this book describes how the human brain can process sensory information through the generation of emergent patterns, exploring the processes that enable thoughts to arise. The text addresses such concepts as consciousness, the role of complexity in emergence,...

   To Be Published May 14th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Reading at a Crossroads?

   Disjunctures and Continuities in Conceptions and Practices of Reading in the 21st Century

   Edited by Rand J. Spiro, Michael Deschryver, Michelle S. Hagerman, Paul Morsink, Penny Thompson

   The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same...

   To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Thinking Spanish Translation

   A Course in Translation Method: Spanish to English, 2nd Edition

   By Louise Haywood, Michael Thompson, Sándor Hervey

   Series: Thinking Translation

   The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues are...

   Published March 30th 2009 by Routledge
4. Thinking Spanish Translation

   A Course in Translation Method: Spanish to English

   By Louise Haywood, Michael Thompson, Sándor Hervey

   Series: Thinking Translation

   Thinking Spanish Translation is a comprehensive and revolutionary 20-week course in translation method offering a challenging and entertaining approach to the acquisition of translation skills. It has been fully and successfully piloted at the University of St.Andrews.Translation is presented as a...

   Published May 2nd 2002 by Routledge
5. Managing People

   2nd Edition

   By Michael Riley, Andrew Thompson

   This new second edition of 'Managing People' provides a practical approach to applying up-to-the-minute management techniques, and is a vital source of information for professionals in the hotel and catering industry responsible for personnel and training. Riley explores how aspects such as labour...

   Published April 2nd 2000 by Routledge
6. Cultural Theory as Political Science

   Edited by Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle, Michael Thompson

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy...

   Published June 23rd 1999 by Routledge
7. Infant-Mother Attachment

   The Origins and Developmental Significance of Individual Differences in Strange Situation Behavior

   Edited by Michael E. Lamb, Ross A. Thompson, William Gardner, Eric L. Charnov

   Published July 31st 1985 by Routledge