David Goodwin

Robert Palmerton, M.D., neurosurgeon, head of his department at the local medical school, would never have believed that out in space there is a universe parallel to ours, with a planet identical to our Earth, where we humans are duplicated, also identically. Nor would he have believed in alien abduction or in the possibility of extraterrestrial travel. He "is" abducted, however, and is taken to this planet to operate on a critically ill government leader. He performs the surgery, successfully, and is then drawn into a struggle for political power where his life and return to Earth are threatened. He intentionally and seriously injures someone opposing him, and he has a love affair with the beautiful female surgeon who assisted him at the operation. He realizes that in unusual circumstances he can behave in ways and do things he never thought he could, or would. Palmerton gets safely back to Earth, and many events and coincidences linking the two universes convince him that he was indeed involved in this whole episode. He tells his story in an up-front, personal, and factual way, which makes it easy for us to wonder-did it, could it, really happen?

Crossing the Line

Oliver Caviglioli

EMMA. GOODWIN TURNER (DAVID. CAVIGLIOLI, OLIVER.)

The Extended Mind by award-winning science writer, Annie Murphy Paul, is not an out-and-out education book. But it is entirely focused on how learning and thinking happen, illustrating how a multi-modal approach to cognition can widen points of access to intellectual activity.Using evidence from cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology, The Extended Mind might broaden your understanding of human cognition. The findings of Annie Murphy Paul parallel those of cognitive load theorists: memory is at the core of cognition, and the body, the environment and other people enrich learning. In this book, Emma Turner, David Goodwin, and Oliver Caviglioli demonstrate how teachers can help their students augment their thinking with their bodies (embodied cognition), external tools (situated cognition) and the people around them (distributed cognition). To ease your concerns, you will read how the works of several eminent researchers validate claims put forward.Teachers and leaders of all education phases will find this book enlightening; using practical strategies and cases studies, the authors highlight opportunities to enrich students' learning by widening points of access to intellectual activity.

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