An overview of the central role in cognitive neuroscience of the corpus callosum, the bands of tissue connecting the brain's two hemispheres.

The Basques played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain’s colonial establishment in the Philippines. Their skills as shipbuilders and businessmen, their evangelical zeal, and their ethnic cohesion and work-oriented culture made them successful as explorers, colonial administrators, missionaries, merchants, and settlers. They continued to play prominent roles in the governance and economy of the archipelago until the end of Spanish sovereignty, and their descendants still contribute in significant ways to the culture and economy of the contemporary Philippines. This book offers important new information about a little-known aspect of Philippine history and the influence of Basque immigration in the Spanish Empire, and it fills an important void in the literature of the Basque diaspora.

This book, authored by three-time National Book Award winner Jim V. Lopez, helps unveil the answers to the nagging conundrum: Why do most family businesses experience a meltdown once they reach the third generation? Family Business Law Declassified: How to Beat the Third-Generation Curse reveals numerous traps that cause family businesses to falter and eventually sink into the cesspool of irrelevance and insolvency. It also offers best practices and countervailing measures to cushion the impact of the “Buddenbrooks Phenomenon,” thus helping family businesses transcend the obstacles associated with the third generation.

How could a structure as complex as the vertebrate brain develop from the simplest multicellular animals? Natural selection offers an impeccable mechanism for the gradual transformation of species, but even Darwin sometimes expressed doubts about the origin of highly complex structures. Following an approach that has been termed "developmental evolutionary genetics," this book seeks to establish a correspondence between embryological processes and the phylogenetic history of an organism.