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| | | | | by Joanne Benhamu (This essay was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Skepticmagazine,March 2019, Vol 39 No 1) The philosophy versus science debate has filled the pages of this magazine for some time now, with Gary Bakker1,2 and Ian Bryce3 heaping scorn and derision on the discipline of philosophy. Both claim that... | |
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| | | | | Pop Junctions is pleased to be able to provide a preview extract and discount for Henry Jenkins' new book, Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Post-War America, published by NYU Press. Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period's fictions-in film, television, comics, children's books, and elsewhere-produced for and consumed by children. In particular, Jenkins demonstrates, the era's emblematic child was the boy in the striped shirt: ... | |
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| | | | | The Neuroscience group within the Behavior and Brain Sciences (BBS) area of the Psychology department includes a diversity of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the biological basis of mental phenomena and clinical disorders. Topics of research range from microscopic neurochemical processes to thefunctional organization of large scale cerebral systems. We have extensive expertise in the fields ofBehavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social / Affective Neuros... | |
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | ||