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  • Semiotics with a Conscience
    Marcel Danesi
    Demonstrating how semiotic theory and method can be applied to decoding false representations and dangerous discourses, this book explores how semiotics can be used as a potentially powerful science of conscience. Confronting the sometimes negative perception of semiotics as academically inward-looking and lacking in morality, Marcel Danesi turns this view on its head. Instead,...
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    51,33 €

  • Organized Crime
    Antonio Nicaso / Marcel Danesi
    This book aims to describe and demystify what makes organized criminal groups so culturally powerful. This new edition examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communication methods, origin myths, symbols, and lifestyles, and serves as an introduction to organized crime from the angle of cultural analysis. ...
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    76,73 €

  • Solving Puzzles with Neural Creativity
    Marcel Danesi
    This book takes an in-depth look at the tradition of solving puzzles and considers the psychological cause and effect of the ’Aha moment’: that familiar flash of sudden insight. Everyone loves a good puzzle, but why is this so? ...
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    90,89 €

  • Image Schema Theory and Mathematical Cognition
    Marcel Danesi
    This book uses blending theory in math cognition, and assesses the main aspect of this theory, called image schema theory. Applied work in math pedagogy has used this theory, but no work has assessed its validity. This book provides an overall assessment of the theory with regard to its validity in the study of math cognition.Overall, this book presents image schema theory as i...
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    71,39 €

  • Pseudology
    Marcel Danesi
    In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology unravels the reasons for this by describing a 'science of lying'. ...
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    74,91 €

  • Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts
    Dan Vilenchik / Marcel Danesi / Yair Neuman
    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art AI language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. ...
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    38,67 €

  • Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language
    Marcel Danesi
    This book contributes to the debate surrounding the origin of language by demonstrating that riddles and myths can be examined as evidence of the emergence of conceptual metaphors, a prerequisite for the development of a complete language. ...
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    51,67 €

  • Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination
    Marcel Danesi
    This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first time as the originating force in mathematics, transforming instinctive counting and spatial perception into poetic (metaphorical) symbolism that dovetails with the origin of language. It looks at current work on mathematical cognition (from Lakoff and Núñez to Butter...
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    48,34 €

  • Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories
    Marcel Danesi
    Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. ...
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    77,90 €

  • The Dark Mafia
    Antonio Nicaso / Marcel Danesi
    This book explores the way in which organized crime gangs have adapted and evolved in synch with ever-expanding technologies, using these not only to update their popular image, but also the ways in which they conduct their secretive operations. ...
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    70,97 €

  • Popular Culture
    Marcel Danesi
    Danesi’s introduction to popular culture takes students through major forms of media to explore a vast array of cultural theories. The fifth edition features updated coverage on social media and digital cultures, including those surrounding memes, video games, virtual reality, and streaming services. ...
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    66,31 €

  • The Ultimate Brain Health Logic Puzzle Book for Adults
    Marcel Danesi
    Sharpen your mind with fun, brain-boosting logic puzzles Puzzles are an entertaining way to improve your memory and cognitive skills. The Ultimate Brain Health Logic Puzzle Book for Adults offers a wide variety of sudoku, calcudoku, logic grids, masyu, nonograms, and cryptic puzzles in a range of difficulty levels so you can enjoy hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain ...
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    28,16 €

  • The Ultimate Brain Health Puzzle Book for Adults, Vol. 2
    Marcel Danesi
    Exercise your mind with the next volume in the ultimate collection of brain puzzles You know that keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body—and puzzles are a fun way to do it! All puzzles are great for brain health, but different kinds of puzzles strengthen different mental skills: Crossword puzzles boost vocabulary, Cryptograms test deductive ...
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    27,14 €

  • Understanding Nonverbal Communication
    Marcel Danesi
    The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these physical communicative cues? How are they being expressed and exploited in new media and multimodal online and mobile interaction?Offering an in-depth guide to help you investigate and understand real and virtual nonverbal communication ...
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    57,58 €

  • Organized Crime
    Antonio Nicaso / Marcel Danesi
    The book demystifies and deconstructs traditional notions of  organized crime and offers an interdisciplinary textbook based on an analysis of its history, its codes, its language, symbols, rituals and lifestyles; in short, a cultural introduction to organized crime. ...
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    75,44 €

  • Linguistic Relativity Today
    Marcel Danesi
    This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. ...
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    77,68 €

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition
    Marcel Danesi
    This is an anthology of contemporary studies from various disciplinary perspectives written by some of the world’s most renowned experts in each of the areas of mathematics, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, semiotics, education, and more. Its purpose is not to add merely to the accumulation of studies, but to show that math cognition is best approached from various discip...
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    148,77 €

  • Master Your Mind
    Marcel Danesi
    Sharpen critical thinking skills and power your brain-for lifeThink of your mind like a muscle. It must be exercised regularly to get stronger-and for you to get smarter. Master Your Mind will get your brain in shape by helping you cultivate the principles of critical thinking through perplexing puzzles, engaging exercises based on real-world scenarios, interesting case studies...
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    32,66 €

  • Language, Society, and New Media
    Marcel Danesi
    This book uses an interdisciplinary approach, integrating frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, to demonstrate the relationship between language, society, thought, and culture to students ...
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    77,14 €

  • Brain Teasers for Adults
    Marcel Danesi
    Give your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest.Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn’t throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet 'doable' puzzles to help build your logic, math, and word...
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    38,23 €

  • The Semiotics of Love
    Marcel Danesi
    The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and neuroscientific scholarly analyses of love, Marcel Danesi works to interrogate the cultural constructions of love across ...
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    31,43 €

  • Learning and Teaching Mathematics in The Global Village
    Marcel Danesi
    This book provides a fundamental reassessment of mathematics education in the digital era. It constitutes a new mindset of how information and knowledge are processed by introducing new interconnective and interactive pedagogical approaches. Math education is catching up on technology, as courses and materials use digital sources and resources more and more. The time has come t...
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    66,72 €

  • The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
    Marcel Danesi
    Put your noggin to the test with the most famous brain games of all time Puzzles and brainteasers can be found throughout history and around the world. This book collects 125 of the most popular and challenging mind benders for hours of fun-filled entertainment that helps sharpen your logic, language, and problem-solving skills.Fun for everyone-You don’t need any special skills...
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    22,47 €

  • Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things
    Marcel Danesi
    This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning. It discusses how the science of semiotics is equipped to provide insight on what meaning is and how we produce it. Why is it that certain people routinely put their survival at risk by smoking? Why is it that some women make locomotion difficult for themselves by donning high-heel footwe...
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    45,60 €

  • The Semiotics of Emoji
    Marcel Danesi
    Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English’s still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emer...
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    34,29 €

  • The History of the Kiss
    Marcel Danesi
    What’s more romantic than two people embracing, looking into each other’s eyes, and kissing each other? But how should we make sense of this iconic act? How and when did it become a vital sign of romance and love? When the kiss first started to appear in n ...
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    66,75 €

  • Practice Makes Perfect Advanced Italian Grammar
    Marcel Danesi
    More practice to expand your Italian skillsThe Practice Makes Perfect series has helped thousands learn the basics of Italian, from vocabulary to prepositions, verbs, and beyond. Now this innovative series turns its attention to advanced students of Italian who have the foundation of good language skills and want to take their knowledge to the next level. To help you evolve you...
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    21,82 €

  • X-Rated!
    Marcel Danesi
    This book examines how violence was used as a spectacle in Cuban and Argentine theater in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reflection of and a dialogue with the violence occurring in the public arena. Using the international affair of the Caso Padilla as a way to appreciate how the notion of revolutionary spectacle pertains to culture, Ford deftly examines the use of violenc...
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    66,76 €

  • Why It Sells
    Marcel Danesi
    Marcel Danesi is an entertaining and insightful tour guide to decoding the messages woven into the advertisements, commercials, brand names, and logos we see on a daily basis. Guiding readers through the basics of how to interpret ads, Danesi explores everything from product and package design to jingles, cyberadvertising, ad campaigns, global impacts, culture jamming, and adve...
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    53,09 €

  • Second Language Teaching
    Marcel Danesi
    This volume offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages. It provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities, evaluates methods, syllabi, approaches, etc. from the perspective of brain functioning. It illustrates how teaching can unfold...
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    134,41 €


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