The Prefrontal Cortex, Fifth Edition, provides users with a thoroughly updated version of this comprehensive work that has historically served as the classic reference on this part of the brain. The book offers a unifying, interdisciplinary perspective that is lacking in other volumes written about the frontal lobes, and is, once again, written by the award-winning author who discovered "memory cells," the physiological substrate of working memory. The fifth edition constitutes a comprehen...

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebra...

A Practitioner’s Perspective on How to Develop and Implement a Successful Welfare to Work Program

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and innovations in the fields of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing. The contributions reflect cutting-edge advances across a wide range of domains, including Ambient, Active, and Assisted Living (A3L) for health and wellbeing; the Internet of Everything (IoE) and sensor ecosystems; and Artificial Intelligence for Ambient Intelligence (AI²).In addition, two special sessions enrich the compilation: Games an...

In this captivating memoir, William Godwin, the renowned philosopher and husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, offers an intimate glimpse into his life and the intellectual landscape of his time. From his early struggles as a dissenting minister to his groundbreaking work on political philosophy, Godwin recounts his journey with candor and wit. Through his personal experiences, he sheds light on the social and political issues that shaped the late 18th century, providing a valuable historical re...

French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision-conceived out of national interest-of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contr...

Now available as an e-book!This definitive volume brings together Nick Joaquin’s classic play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, Rolando Tinio’s libretto of Ang Larawan, The Musical (which is based on the play), and the screenplay of Ang Larawan, The Movie. Includes 16 colored pages of photos of the stage musical and movie, the last interview of Tinio, a learning guide, the behind-the-scenes photos of the film-making process and more.An indisp...

The end of technology and maybe of humanity itself. Demons (and magic) unleashed upon the Earth.The Mist meets a gritty prequel to The Elfstones of Shannara, The Infernal Age is a nail-biting take on the death of the modern world and the birth of something darker.Gabriel, an ex-soldier-turned-project-manager with anger issues, is sent to a small town in New Mexico and charged with keeping a failed government experiment secret and stable. Th...

The new book by Joaquin Zihuatanejo and natasha carrizosa, of fire and rain, has been called a testimony of life and love that spans form the ghettos of the West Indies to the barrio of the Lower East Side. It is a series of powerful poems that will leave readers stunned and yearning for more. There is an honesty in these poems, a richness of voice that is without question that of a poet. In his solo collection, Barrio Songs, Joaquin attempts to capture the struggle of his people, the lost...

Redemption is the continuation of the life of Jack. A young boy of 8 years of age who was forced to grow up in a foreign land away from friends and family after 17 years of praying to the Gods for the strength to survive and to find a way home and an opportunity to keep his promise to Linda (Linnie). Jack finds a way home. However, before he can go home the Gods have a plan for him. They wish to test him to see if he is worthy of being the long ago prophesied Chosen One. Even if he is foun...

A stunning sequel that expands an already vast universe.Withervale burns.After a terrifying encounter with the Red Stag, Lago-Sterjall and the wayfarers venture to Zovaria, but all they find in the Pink Capital is betrayal. Chased by enemies within and without, they take refuge in a land of magical beauty: the Moordusk Dome.A mischievous and seductive caracal prince lurks in the domed land of felids, and he has set his eyes on Lago. But Lago's heart...

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents primarily formed the Salvadoran guerrillas, Joaquín Chávez argues that El Salvador's socioeconomic and political crises of the 1970s fomented a groundswell of urban and peasant intellectuals who collaborated to spur ...