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The Structure of Learning

From Sign Stimuli To Sign Language

By: R. Allen Gardner,Beatrix Gardner

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The Structure of Learning

From Sign Stimuli To Sign Language

By: R. Allen Gardner,Beatrix Gardner

Drawing together research and theory in ethology and psychology, this book offers a clear and provocative account of the ways in which living organisms learn. Throughout, the authors' focus is on the importance of operational definition. In lively prose, describing experiments in enough depth to involve readers in the drama of experimental method, they recount the history of scientists' attempts to answer basic questions, and show how one study builds on another. Although they present the major traditional positions, they demand that readers examine actual evidence, recognize weaknesses, and consider alternatives. This critical process leads to the delineation of a bottom up, feed forward model in contrast to the traditional top down, feed backward one. Recent research in robotics and fuzzy logic suggests ways in which artificial as well as living systems pursue bottom up, feed forward ethological solutions to practical problems. The authors' extended discussion of their exciting work teaching sign language to chimpanzees vividly illustrates the application of the basic principles of learning elucidated in the book.

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Psychology Press

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1134805217

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9781134805211

Collective Talent

A Study on Improvisational Group Performance in Music

By: Jacqueline Beatrix de Jong,Jaqueline De Jong

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Collective Talent

A Study on Improvisational Group Performance in Music

By: Jacqueline Beatrix de Jong,Jaqueline De Jong

Annotation. Improvised music performance offers remarkable and dramatic examples of the talented ways in which group members can interact and inspire each other. Such musical sessions can serve as examples of improvised performance of groups in general. This thesis reports on ways of initiating and supporting talented group improvisation. It addresses the question which interface is needed to generate collectives with collective talent. Inspired by Pask's Conversation Theory, the author has developed a theory for supporting collective talent. The approach and results are not restricted to music, but should yield interest to fields as management & organization and ICT. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056294427.

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216

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Amsterdam University Press

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9056294423

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9789056294427

Coptic Interference in the Greek Letters from Egypt

By: VICTORIA. FENDEL,Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

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Coptic Interference in the Greek Letters from Egypt

By: VICTORIA. FENDEL,Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

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Oxford University Press

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0192869175

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9780192869173

Beatrix Potter's Letters

By: Beatrix Potter,Judy Taylor

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Beatrix Potter's Letters

By: Beatrix Potter,Judy Taylor

Beatrix Potter was a very private person, yet, luckily for us, she was a prolific letter writer. Through her own words to friends, working colleagues and children we can discover the observant, energetic, affectionate and humorous personality she kept hidden from her public. Her life covers a period of immense social change. The restricted existence of a dutiful Victorian daughter, the background against which she first wrote the story of Peter Rabbit, was very different from that of war-time England where she continued to pioneer countryside conservation until her death.

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Penguin UK

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0723268843

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9780723268840

Ecological Paradigms Lost

Routes of Theory Change

By: Beatrix Beisner

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Ecological Paradigms Lost

Routes of Theory Change

By: Beatrix Beisner

This edited volume in the Theoretical Ecology series addresses the historical development and evolution of theoretical ideas in the field of ecology. Not only does Ecological Paradigms Lost recount the history of the discipline by practitioners of the science of ecology, it includes commentary on these historical reflections by philosophers of science. Even though the theories discussed are, in many cases, are at the forefront of research, the language and approach make this material accessible to non-theoreticians. The book is structured in 5 major sections including population ecology, epidemiology, community ecology, evolutionary biology and ecosystem ecology. In each section a chapter by an eminent, experienced ecologist is complemented by analysis from a newer, cutting-edge researcher. - Reflection on the past and future of ecology - A historical overview of major ideas in the field of ecology - Pairing of historical views by ecologists along with a philosophical commentary directed at the practicing scientists' views by a philosopher of science - Historical analysis by practicing ecologists including anectodal experiences that are rarely recorded - Based on a very popular symposium at the 2002 Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Tucson, AZ

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459

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Elsevier

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008045786X

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9780080457864

Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

By: Beatrix Busse

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Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

By: Beatrix Busse

This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic, lexicographical, pragmatic, social and contextual criteria. Going beyond the conventional paradigm of power and solidarity and with recourse to Shakespearean drama as both text and performance, the study sees vocatives as foregrounded experiential, interpersonal and textual markers. Shakespeare’s vocatives construe, both quantitatively and qualitatively, habitus and identity. They illustrate relationships or messages. They reflect Early Modern, Shakespearean, and intra- or inter-textual contexts. Theoretically and methodologically, the study is interdisciplinary. It draws on approaches from (historical) pragmatics, stylistics, Hallidayean grammar, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, socio-historical linguistics, sociology, and theatre semiotics. This study contributes, thus, not only to Shakespeare studies, but also to literary linguistics and literary criticism.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027293139

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9789027293138

Learning to Live Together

Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development

By: David A. Hamburg M.D.,Beatrix A. Hamburg M.D.

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Learning to Live Together

Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development

By: David A. Hamburg M.D.,Beatrix A. Hamburg M.D.

With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society. Discussing the psychological obstacles to peaceful relations between groups, the authors focus on the developmental processes by which we can work to diminish ethnocentrism, prejudice, and hatred, which children learn from a very early age. Until now, scholarship and practice in international relations have gravely neglected crucial psychological aspects of these terrible problems and have not yet explored the educational opportunities related to them. Addressing these promising lines of inquiry and innovation, this book fosters a more humane and less violent development in childhood and adolescence. Educators, religious leaders, developmental and social psychologists, will find this a valuable resource, as will a socially concerned segment of the public who are looking for practical ways to work for peace.

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Oxford University Press

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0190289074

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9780190289072

Health Care for Some

Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

By: Beatrix Hoffman

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Health Care for Some

Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

By: Beatrix Hoffman

“Skillfully chronicles America’s struggles to make health care a right from the Depression through Obamacare. . . . beautifully written [and] compelling.” —Jonathan Oberlander, author of The Political Life of Medicare Named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging, in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services—using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors—is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world. While most histories of US health care emphasize failed policy reforms, Health Care for Some looks at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is experienced by ordinary Americans and how experiences of rationing have led to claims for a right to health care. By taking this approach, Hoffman puts a much-needed human face on a topic that is too often dominated by talking heads. “A well-researched, readable primer on the development of the complex, fragmented US medical system.” —Times Higher Education

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University of Chicago Press

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0226348059

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9780226348056

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

By: Beatrix Hesse

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The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

By: Beatrix Hesse

This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.

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Springer

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113746304X

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9781137463043

School-age Pregnancy and Parenthood

Biosocial Dimensions

By: Beatrix A. Hamburg

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School-age Pregnancy and Parenthood

Biosocial Dimensions

By: Beatrix A. Hamburg

This important work examines in detail and depth how, as a consequence of changing technologies, diet, patterns of reproduction, and work, relations between children and parents have altered.The editors and contributors hold that biosocial science is particularly relevant to research on human family systems and parenting behavior. The family is the universal social institution in which the care of children is based and the turf where cultural tradition, beliefs, and values are transmitted to the young as they fulfill their biological potential for growth, development and reproduction. The biosocial perspective takes into account the biological substratum and the social environment as critical co-determinants of behavior and pinpoints areas in which contemporary human parental behavior exhibits continuities with and departures from, patterns evident throughout history.This work crosses disciplinary lines without ignoring their relevance to the broader themes of the book. School age pregnancy and parenthood is a powerful anchor for the dissection of large scale issues. The contributors deal in turn with ethnic and historical experience, examine normative and ethical issues, and cast new light on methodological concerns. What the editors call culturally-defined responses to basic needs helps explain both dramatic improvements in this area, and how they expand the challenge of teen reproduction. Contributors emphasize new demands for training and education to research this growing phenomenon. The book contributes to humane concerns as well as the scientific imagination.

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Routledge

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1351492004

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9781351492003

The Skin and Gene Therapy

By: Ulrich R. Hengge,Beatrix Volc-Platzer

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The Skin and Gene Therapy

By: Ulrich R. Hengge,Beatrix Volc-Platzer

Basic Aspects.- 1 The Epidermal Barrier and Strategies for Surmounting It: An Overview.- 2 Stem Cells, Differentiation and Renewal Kinetics of Keratinocytes: Implications for Cutaneous Gene Therapy.- 3 Relevant Animal Models for Skin Gene Therapy.- 4 Nonviral Gene Transfer into the Skin.- 5 Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Naked Plasmid DNA: Studies on Dissemination and Ectopic Expression.- 6 Uptake of DNA by Keratinocytes.- Treatment of Skin Diseases.- Gene Therapy of Inherited Skin Diseases.- Gene Transfer Strategies in Tissue Repair.- Systemic Effects of Skin Gene Therapy.- The Use of Skin-Directed Gene Therapy in the Treatment of Systemic Diseases.- Keratinocyte Gene Therapy Using Cytokine Genes.- Genetic Vaccination Using the Skin.- Principles of Genetic Immunization.- Systematic Modulation of Immune Responses by CpG DNA.- Genetic and Dendritic Cell Vaccination as a Novel Therapy for Melanoma.- Molecular Strategies Interfering with Tumor Progression of Melanoma and Improving Anti-Tumor Immunity.- Prophylactic and Therapeutic DNA Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases.

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336

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540667601

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9783540667605

The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand

American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)

By: Beatrix Farrand

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The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand

American Landscape Gardener (1872-1959)

By: Beatrix Farrand

Landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand's written work, in print for the first time

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UPNE

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1584657936

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9781584657934

The Tailor of Gloucester & Other Beatrix Potter Classics for Christmas Time

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and many more

By: Beatrix Potter

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The Tailor of Gloucester & Other Beatrix Potter Classics for Christmas Time

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and many more

By: Beatrix Potter

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit The Story of Miss Moppet The Tale of Tom Kitten The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck The Tale of Samuel Whiskers (The Roly-Poly Pudding) The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies The Tale of Ginger and Pickles The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes The Tale of Mr. Tod The Tale of Pigling Bland Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals. Potter's artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy. Her best known picture book is The Tale of Peter Rabbit which was also her first publication. The great success was followed by the number of successful children's books about animals, such as The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. She carried on to write and illustrate until her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation.

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e-artnow

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8026881273

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9788026881278

Beatrix Potter's Letters

By: Beatrix Potter,Judy Taylor

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By: Beatrix Potter,Judy Taylor

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Book's by Beatrix Gardner

The Structure of Learning

The Structure of Learning

Collective Talent

Collective Talent

Coptic Interference in the Greek Letters from Egypt

Coptic Interference in the Greek Letters from Egypt

Beatrix Potter's Letters

Beatrix Potter's Letters

Ecological Paradigms Lost

Ecological Paradigms Lost

Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

Learning to Live Together

Learning to Live Together

Health Care for Some

Health Care for Some

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

School-age Pregnancy and Parenthood

School-age Pregnancy and Parenthood

The Skin and Gene Therapy

The Skin and Gene Therapy

The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand

The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand

The Tailor of Gloucester & Other Beatrix Potter Classics for Christmas Time

The Tailor of Gloucester & Other Beatrix Potter Classics for Christmas Time

Beatrix Potter's Letters

Beatrix Potter's Letters

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