Wren Thorpe is smitten by Leah Glover, the beautiful and mysterious new transfer student to his high school. When she reluctantly tells him that she is being abused, his hero complex kicks in. The fact that Wren is practically raising himself--his father is a drunkard and his mother, desperate to recapture her stolen youth, goes on a dating spree--makes him even more eager to rescue the troubled young girl. Unfortunately, Leah has a reputation for telling outlandish stories and outright lies. When she informs him that her abuser is her stepfather--a decorated police officer with near-saint...
Wren Thorpe is smitten by Leah Glover, the beautiful and mysterious new transfer student to his high school. When she reluctantly tells him that she i...
High school teacher David Talbot's emotionally-troubled wife Amanda has kicked him out of their farmhouse. Sleep deprived, living in a rat hole apartment, separated from his two precious young daughters, he is about to lose his mind. David's troubles are compounded after his best friend Steven is killed in a mysterious car crash. When David begins to ask questions about the bizarre circumstances surrounding Stevens' death, his own life and the lives of his children are threatened. Just when he thinks things cannot get worse, he is accused of a crime he did not commit. By the time he figures...
High school teacher David Talbot's emotionally-troubled wife Amanda has kicked him out of their farmhouse. Sleep deprived, living in a rat hole apartm...
Brain imaging has been immensely valuable in showing us how the mind works. However, many of our ideas about how the mind works come from disciplines like experimental psychology, artificial intelligence and linguistics, which in their modern form date back to the computer revolution of the 1940s, and are not strongly linked to the subdisciplines of biomedicine. Cognitive science and neuroscience thus have very separate intellectual roots, and very different styles. Unfortunately, these two areas of knowledge have not been well integrated as far as higher mental processes are concerned. So...
Brain imaging has been immensely valuable in showing us how the mind works. However, many of our ideas about how the mind works come from disciplines ...