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Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsFor Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime’s quest. 
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Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsThe poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. 
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Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsI Am Dance is an encounter with dancers that will leave you with not just beautiful images to behold, but also shares with you a love and appreciation for the art of dance, with insight into the passion, heart and revelations of dancers of color. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksBihouix skillfully goes against the grain to argue that ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and envisages a different approach to manage our resources and build a more resilient and sustainable society. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThe human brain is an extraordinary learning machine. Its ability to reprogram itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksMostly covering the period from 1970 to the present, the chapters provide readers with an understanding of the political, social and historical contexts that have brought us to the current day. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThe book examines indigenous and state critiques of the Declaration but argues that, ultimately, it is an instrument of significant transformative potential showing how state sovereignty need not be a power that is exercised over and above indigenous peoples. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksWe live in a world that’s more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksAnd while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThis book unpacks the lived working experience of black accountants in the US and UK to highlight the existence of institutionalized racism. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooks“…this book… argues for a radical overhaul of the dominant narrative of poverty in the UK and US, using the real experts to try to find answers - the people who live it.” 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksBringing together poets from times and places as diverse as Tsarist Russia, 1960s Harlem, and Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Burnside reveals how poetry responded to the dramatic events of the century while shaping our impressions of them. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThis first-hand witness account – originally written by Lyudmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time – tells the important story of one woman’s persecution under Stalin. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksThis book breaks new ground by examining a little known dimension of China’s foreign policy: trilateral aid cooperation. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksUsing oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksIn showing how the person is modernity’s central preoccupation, and in demonstrating how it is only as persons that we can truly give ourselves to others and thus develop real community, David Walsh’s The Priority of the Person makes an important contribution to current discussions in both political theory and philosophy. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksSetting Malcolm’s life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century’s most politically relevant figures “from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary.