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An interdisciplinary view of the evolution and consequences of flexible social cognition-the capacity to withhold the inference of mental states to other people.
In Invisible Mind, Lasana Harris takes a social neuroscience approach to explaining the worst of human behavior. How can a person take part in racially motivated violence and then tenderly cradle a baby or lovingly pet a puppy? Harris argues that our social cognition-the ability to infer...
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The Shadow in the Corner' is a gothic short story, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and first published in 1879. It tells the story of Michael Bascom, a reclusive scientist, who lives in an old mansion called Wildheath Grange. His man servant informs him that they need a girl to help his wife around the house. An orphan girl takes the role, but informs Bascom that she is very uncomfortable with her lodgings. She says she sees a mysterious shadow...
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First published serially in 1861, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" is the wildly successful Victorian-era sensation novel. Sensation novels were very popular in English literature in the 1860s and 1870s. The novels were a combination of realism and romance and were usually tales of terrible crimes, such as murder, kidnapping, bigamy, adultery, and theft, occurring in otherwise normal, tranquil domestic settings. "Lady Audley's Secret"...
4) Aurora Floyd
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First published in 1863, "Aurora Floyd" is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and sequel to her best-known work and one of the most famous sensation novels of all time, "Lady Audley's Secret". A classic Victorian tale of love, lies, treachery, intrigue and murder, "Aurora Floyd" is constitutes a must-read for fans of sensation fiction and is not to be missed by fans of Braddon's seminal work. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was an English...
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