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Paul Armstrong

    Training Peacemakers: Peace Diplomacy
    Why Are We Always On Last?
    Passaggio in India
    Artillery in the Great War
    How Literature Plays with the Brain
    Stories and the Brain
    • Stories and the Brain

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Taking up the age-old question of what our ability to tell stories reveals about language and the mind, this truly interdisciplinary project should be of interest to humanists and cognitive scientists alike.

      Stories and the Brain
    • Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena.

      How Literature Plays with the Brain
    • Incisive new study of artillery tactics throughout the Great War Compares artillery tactics of the principal belligerent nations - Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Ital, Turkey, the United States Detailed reconstructions of the role of artillery in key battles including Le Cateau, the Somme, Valenciennes

      Artillery in the Great War
    • A Chandrapore, nell'India stretta sotto la morsa del colonialismo, si fronteggiano "Islam, un atteggiamento verso la vita squisito e durevole", la burocrazia britannica, "invadente e sgradevole come il sole" e "un pugno di fiacchi indù", in una silenziosa guerra fredda. Finché l'arrivo di una giovane turista inglese non viene a incrinare il fragile equilibrio. Perché Adela Quested, con stupore del clan dei sahib bianchi, non si accontenta dei circoli e delle visite ufficiali: vuole conoscere "la vera India" e trova la guida indigena perfetta nel mite e ospitale Aziz. Ma nelle grotte di Marabar la gita preparata con ogni cura si trasforma per Adela, vittima delle sue personali inquietudini o di un indegno affronto, in un dramma sconvolgente che arriva fino nelle aule di un tribunale, facendo esplodere pregiudizi, razzismi, contraddizioni. Lo scontro tra due civiltà agli antipodi per sentimenti e valori troverà anche la sua eroina inconsapevole: Esmiss Moor, Miss Moore per gli inglesi, figura simbolo di un'impossibile pacificazione. Il ritratto umano e poetico di un paese amatissimo si fa parabola della "segreta intelligenza del cuore" di contro alla protervia della ragione in quello che Forster chiamò "il mio romanzo indiano influenzato da Proust" e che è il suo indiscusso capolavoro.

      Passaggio in India
    • Why Are We Always On Last? After 15 years steering the BBC's iconic Match of the Day through seismic changes in sport and broadcasting, and a lifetime immersed in football. Paul Armstrong honestly and humorously recalls a career working on seven World Cups and with everyone from Coleman and Clough to Lineker and Shearer.

      Why Are We Always On Last?
    • This book is meant to help bring world peace. It covers over a 130 countries on the planet. It provides ideas, questions and mantras to help people think for themselves. It is probably the best book on peace. My target audiences are politicians and governments.

      Training Peacemakers: Peace Diplomacy
    • Why Are We Always Indoors is the ex-editor of Match of the Day's personal chronicle of 105 days without MOTD during the coronavirus pandemic. Musings and anecdotes about sport, TV and music are set against an increasingly disturbing backdrop of ever-growing casualty figures and governmental failures.

      Why Are We Always Indoors?
    • Acquire a framework to understand, evaluate and respond to emerging technologies in order to future-proof your organization against technological disruption.

      Disruptive Technologies