Drawing on current research in anthropology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the humanities, Understanding the Human Mind explores how and why we, as humans, find it so easy to believe we are right—even when we are outright wrong.Humans live out their own lives effectively trapped in their own mind and, despite being exceptional survivors and a highly social species, our inner mental world is often misaligned with reality. In order to understand why, John Edward Te...

How do researchers use dynamic network analysis (DYRA) to explore, model, and try to understand the complex global history of our species? Reduced to bare bones, network analysis is a way of understanding the world around us — a way called relational thinking — that is liberating but challenging. Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in DYRA. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and arc...

This box set comprises 3 previously published titles by Dr. John Terrell:Better! The New Covenant in Hebrews - John provides a clear exposition of this Bible book that many Christians today struggle to understand. As he explains, Hebrews tells us that the New Covenant is better, in every respect, than the Old Covenant - but the Old helps us to understand the New and how God is looking for a collective people today to worship and serve Him "in spirit and in truth".

It's never been easy to a disciple of Jesus; it often involves forsaking people, ambitions or associations as we answer the call of "Follow Me".This book traces the principles of separation for service, from the time of Abraham to the present. It examines the practical issues of discipleship and stresses the strongly positive intent of God's purpose in separation.

This historical review traces the stages of a return journey which began with the reformation and led, we believe, to an important recovery of New Testament church truth at the end of the 19th century.

John Terrell provides a clear exposition of this Bible book that many Christians today struggle to understand. As John explains, Hebrews tells us that the New Covenant is better, in every respect, than the Old Covenant - but the Old helps us to understand the New and how God is looking for a collective people today to worship and serve Him "in spirit and in truth".CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER TWO: “THOU ART MY SON”CHAPTER THREE: THE AUTHOR OF OUR SALVATIONC...

God is holy and therefore His kingdom would also need to be a holy nation.This book explores, from the Bible, the principles and characteristics of nationality in general and their particular application first to God’s Old Testament kingdom of Israel, and then to its New Testament counterpart, that was established by Jesus Christ.The constitution, government, service, and destiny of God’s kingdom are traced from earliest times to the ultimate realisation of the purposes of God in a new hea...

In this "marvel of storytelling," a journalist pursues the mysteries of human navigation across continents and deep within the brain ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. In Wayfinding, M.R. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Austral...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different languages and linguistic examples, he demonstrates how languages are not uniformly distributed around ...

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...

"An assured guide" (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn’t the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world...

A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at object...