Where Am I?
Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall
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On Sale:
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26/04/2010
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Formats:
Trade paperback | Hardback
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In Where Am I?, University of Waterloo professor Colin Ellard offers an engrossing account of our mental relationship with physical space. One of his key premises is that human beings differ in fundamental ways from all other animals in the way our minds engage with space. He looks at the conceptual tools we share with animals for exploring spatial dimension and pinpoints where our methods differ from those of other species.
Anyone with an interest in the biological origins of human nature, especially as it relates to the wider world of human affairs, will be interested in reading this important new book.
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Critical Praise for
Where Am I?
“Fascinating. . . . An absorbing read.”
-- The Globe and Mail
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“Funny and captivating.”
-- National Post
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“Delightfully lucid. . . . ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.”
-- The New York Times
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Where Am I?
How do you get from here to there? Where is there? Psychologist Colin Ellard demonstrates that navigating through space is both complex and utterly fascinating. Beginning with the neurological and muscular coordination involved in the simple act of reaching for an object, he then investigates our...
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