Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)

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In the highly influential mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive spaces to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and to engage in creative thought. These twelve original papers extend the mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. Investigating the ties between mental constructs, they analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals the metaphor system for conceptualizing the self abstract change expressions in Japanese mood in Spanish deictic expressions copular sentences in Japanese conditional constructions and reference in American Sign Language.The ground-breaking research presented in this volume will be of interest to linguists and cognitive scientists. The contributors are Claudia Brugman, Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff, Yo Matsumoto, Errapel Mejias-Bikandi, Laura A. Michaelis, Gisela Redeker, Jo Rubba, Shigeru Sakahara, Jose Sanders, Eve Sweetser, and Karen van Hoek.

 

Missing & Murdered: A Personal Adventure in Forensic Anthropology

Missing & Murdered: A Personal Adventure in Forensic Anthropology

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The popularity of TV programs such as the CSI trilogy attests to people s fascination with forensic science as a means of solving crimes, and this book follows the pathway into forensics via the fields of anthropology and anatomy. Missing & Murdered explains the practice of forensic anthropology and the skills base of skeletal biology, while at the same time debunking the CSI effect (the phenomenon of popular television raising crime victims real-world expectations of forensic science, especially crime-scene investigation and DNA testing). From muti murders, criminal cases and the Missing Persons Task Team to the study of archaeological skeletons, Missing & Murdered will grip and engross readers from one intriguing chapter to the next.

 

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

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National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances that biotechnology and forensic DNA science have made possible. Yet many citizens are beginning to realize that the unfettered collection of DNA profiles might compromise our basic freedoms and rights.Two leading authors on medical ethics, science policy, and civil liberties take a hard look at how the United States has balanced the use of DNA technology, particularly the use of DNA databanks in criminal justice, with the privacy rights of its citizenry. Krimsky and Simoncelli analyze the constitutional, ethical, and sociopolitical implications of expanded DNA collection in the United States and compare these findings to trends in the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Germany, and Italy. They explore many controversial topics, including the legal precedent for taking DNA from juveniles, the search for possible family members of suspects in DNA databases, the launch of DNA dragnets among local populations, and the warrantless acquisition by police of so-called abandoned DNA in the search for suspects. Most intriguing, Krimsky and Simoncelli explode the myth that DNA profiling is infallible, which has profound implications for criminal justice.

 

The Ascent Of Man: (A Timeless Classic)

The Ascent Of Man: (A Timeless Classic)

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The last romance of Science, the most daring it has ever tried to pen, is the Story of the Ascent of Man. Withheld from all the wistful eyes that have gone before, whose reverent ignorance forbade their wisest minds to ask to see it, this final volume of Natural History has begun to open with our century's close. In the monographs of His and Minot, the Embryology of Man has already received a just expression Darwin and Haeckel have traced the origin of the Animal-Body the researches of Romanes mark a beginning with the Evolution of Mind Herbert Spencer has elaborated theories of the development of Morals Edward Caird of the Evolution of Religion. Supplementing the contributions of these authorities, verifying, criticizing, combating, rebutting, there works a multitude of others who have devoted their lives to the same rich problems, and already every chapter of the bewildering story has found its editors.

 

Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook

Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook

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Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigators Handbook highlights the discussion regarding unjust convictions caused by inaccurate bitemark opinions. The book focuses on cases that use forensic techniques, emphasizing modern methods and protocols. Through this book, the latest information available is offered to the forensic community.This book demonstrates expertise in forensic dentistry by presenting chapters on human identification in domestic and international situations investigations on missing person and violent crimes against persons mass-disaster planning and disaster response and new threats from terrorist attacks on urban centers. Furthermore, it discusses topics regarding bitemark evidence, such as forensic photography, analysis and legal issues. The book also presents two chapters on new scientific topics: The Next Level in Victim Identification: Materials Properties as an Aid in Victim Identification and DNA for First Responders: Recognizing, Collecting, and Analyzing Biological Evidence Related to Dentistry (chapters 3 and 8, respectively).This book is suited to anyone seeking knowledge on forensic dentistry it will be of great value to investigators, lawyers, medical examiners, nurses, and dentists with an interest in forensic dental cases.Contributions by internationally recognized and experienced forensic experts cover missing persons cases and mass disaster cases from around the worldContains over 200 full-color photographs of crime scene evidence, human identification cases and bitemark detailsIncludes many new exoneration cases derived from the Editor's work with the Innocence Project

 

The Triumph of Sociobiology

The Triumph of Sociobiology

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In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publication of E.O. Wilson's classic, Sociobiology, The New Synthesis. Denounced vehemently as an ideology that has justified social evils and inequalities, sociobiology has survived the assault. Twenty-five years after the field was named by Wilson, the approach he championed has successfully demonstrated its value in the study of animal behavior, including the behavior of our own species. Yet, misconceptions remain--to our disadvantage. In this straight-forward, objective approach to the sociobiology debate, noted animal behaviorist John Alcock illuminates how sociobiologists study behavior in all species. He confronts the chief scientific and ideological objections head on, with a compelling analysis of case histories that involve such topics as sexual jealousy, beauty, gender difference, parent-offspring relations, and rape. In so doing, he shows that sociobiology provides the most satisfactory evolutionary analysis of social behavior today. A clear, evocative, and accurate account of the history and content on the subject, inviting to the student and the general reader alike.--Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University.

 

Understanding Human Evolution (4th Edition)

Understanding Human Evolution (4th Edition)

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Offers a nontechnical overview of the field of paleoanthropology, presenting the primate fossil record in view of what skeletal remains can reveal about their populations' anatomy, behavior, and social organization. Contains chapters on fossils and dating methods, determining evolutionary relationsh