abstract Organizational research has long focused on the instrumental sphere with its
questions of efficiency and effectiveness and in recent decades there has been interest in …

Many hypotheses about art's function simply presuppose that art is one thing, thereby
excluding other things. A common assumption in many of the nine hypotheses is that the …

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films,
and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty,
pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched …

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them.
After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's …

In a groundbreaking new book that does for art what Stephen Pinker's" The Language
Instinct" did for linguistics, Denis Dutton overturns a century of art theory and criticism and …

Charles Darwin was and remains a towering figure of science for his ground-breaking theory
of evolution in life forms that came to be known as Darwinism. Darwin is generally held to …

Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral,
written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological …

Qualitative research has much to offer counsellors and psychotherapists, in terms of
generating new understandings of the complexities of the therapeutic process, and in …