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Yeats's time in Dublin, London, Sligo and points throughout the west of Ireland is the subject of this book, looking at the influence of place - and of the experiences across this period - on Yeats's work.

This book uses recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience to show that perceptual learning is genuinely perceptual, rather than post-perceptual. It also offers a taxonomy for classifying cases in the philosophical literature.

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Kevin Michael Connolly is a twenty-four-year-old man who has seen the world in a way most of us never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists at Epcot Center as a child or holding court at the X Games on his mono-ski, Kevin Connolly has been an object of curiosity since the day he was born without legs. Growing up in rural Montana, he was raised like any other kid (except, that is, for his father's MacGyver-like contraptions such as the "bu...

The hand is a remarkable organ which is characteristic of primates and most highly developed in man. This book deals with the evolution and development of hand function, with the structure of the hand and with the hand as a perceptual system. Neurophysiology and psychology of hand function are included, as are problems of disability. With expert interdisciplinary contributions from around the world, this wide-ranging overview is sure to be of ...

`This is an impressive work... and will provide the advanced reader with a rich source of theory and evidence. There is a huge amount to be got from the book and I suspect it will become a key work' - J Gavin Bremner, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University The Handbook of Developmental Psychology is a comprehensive, authoritative yet frontier-pushing overview of the study of human development presented in a single-volume format. It is...

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This is a collection of more than 3, 000 quotations on the human mind and behaviour, providing a source of seminal, witty and insightful comments on topics ranging from abilities to xenophobia. Organized by both subject and author, it will be a valuable reference tool, or may be read for entertainment or to embellish a speech.

What happens at the very moment when thought moves from the banal and everyday into the oblique and odd? In "drift, " Kevin Connolly investigates this mysterious mental realm that all of us tend to find ourselves in from time to time. Examining the moment when one thought collides into another, Connolly incorporates into his poems such witty, joyous ideas as a meditation on the business end of a sea cucumber and a world in which disfigured his...

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This market is the largest and most liquid-call type derivative in the world. Philips and Connolly intend to clarify definitions and discuss why the warrant is so important to the institutional investor. The authors consider its versatility and the implications for profit from the tremendous volatility in this market.

Nine years (ahem...) in the making, award-winning Kevin Connolly's new collection extends its author's investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity. What is a public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly's Xiphoid Process interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-...

The Convertible Bonds (CB) market is growing all the time. To date, over one trillion dollars worth of CBs are in circulation. Corporations are finding this source of fund-raising more and more attractive. And for different reasons, the buyers are finding CBs increasingly attractive investment vehicles. Kevin Connolly has put together an excellent treatment of pricing convertible bonds, some of the chapters are: Returns distributions and assoc...

The concept of profiting from trading volatility is not new, but is known to only a few players in the derivatives industry. Buying and Selling Volatility is the first book to explain this trading strategy in detail without using complex mathematics. Offering a new approach to the subject of options, seen purely from a volatility viewpoint, the author uses illustrations to clearly explain the connection between volatility and options. He expla...

Kevin Connolly's four previous poetry books have garnered widespread critical acclaim and awards for their cutting humor, vivid language, and lyricism. Now comes "Revolver." A daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and feverish imagination, "Revolver" features poems that are each written in a different form -- "revolving" through various styles while imbuing each with the precise control and sharp wit for which Connolly is noted. This mu...

A distinctive exploration of the relationships between Sligo's landscape and the life and writings of W.B. Yeats. This unique book brings the reader on an illustrated journey of the biographical, geographical, and literary references to the city and county of Sligo and the surrounding area made during the lifetime and in the works of William Butler Yeats, one of Ireland's greatest poets.

There are so many people I have to thank for getting this book to publication. But firstly I have to thank "The Bride, " Barbie Ann. How she has spent over 40 years with me I have no idea. Not only has she typed the original manuscript, but she has translated it from my Irish gibberish, into reasonable English, without loosing the content. Perhaps because she is the only person who can fully understand me. My good friend David Cunningham, has ...