John F. Turner's Books

Thinking Through Statistics

By: John Levi Martin

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Simply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work, and one that makes a strong case for revising the way that we try to use statistics to support our theories. But don’t let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour guide through these scholarly waters. Martin argues that the task of social statistics isn't to estimate parameters, but to reject false theory. He illustrates common pitfalls that can keep researchers from doing just that using a combination of visualizations, re-analyses, and simulations. Thinking Through Statistics gives social science practitioners accessible insight into troves of wisdom that would normally have to be earned through arduous trial and error, and it does so with a lighthearted approach that ensures this field guide is anything but stodgy.

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University of Chicago Press

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022656777X

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9780226567778

Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature

By: John E. B. Mayor

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Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature

By: John E. B. Mayor

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385212030

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9783385212039

The Turtles of Mexico

Land and Freshwater Forms

By: John Legler,Richard C. Vogt

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The Turtles of Mexico

Land and Freshwater Forms

By: John Legler,Richard C. Vogt

The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years of fieldwork to elucidate the natural history of these species. The volume includes an extensive introduction to turtle anatomy, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and physiology. A key to the turtles of Mexico is included along with individual species accounts featuring geographic distribution maps and detailed color illustrations. Specific topics discussed for each species include habitat, diet, feeding behavior, reproduction, predators, parasites, growth and ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, growth rings, economic use, conservation, legal protection, and taxonomic studies. This book is a complete reference for scientists, conservationists, and professional and amateur enthusiasts who wish to study Mexican turtles.

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Univ of California Press

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0520956893

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9780520956896

Social Work Practice

A Competency-Based Approach

By: John Poulin, PhD, MSW,Selina Matis, PhD, LCSW, LICSW

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Social Work Practice

A Competency-Based Approach

By: John Poulin, PhD, MSW,Selina Matis, PhD, LCSW, LICSW

This primary social work practice text, built around the nine core 2015 CSWE competencies, is the only book available that provides students with the benefits of a fully integrated competency-based approach. Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach immediately immerses students in the competencies required for social work practice at the micro, mezzo and macro levels. Designed for use in both upper level BSW and foundation level MSW social work practice courses, the book is uniquely structured to deliver the knowledge and skills students need to develop mastery of the professional social work competencies. Chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the theories, concepts, and practice components related to each competency. Engaging vignettes, chapter objectives that outline key concepts, abundant case examples, critical-thinking questions, and a detailed case summary with discussion questions in each chapter, help students deepen their understanding of practical applications of the nine core competencies. Each chapter uses the same case to perfectly illustrate the complexity of social work practice and the interconnections among the professional competencies. A robust supplementary instructor package includes PowerPoints, competency-based class assignments with grading rubrics, and sample syllabi. Print version of book includes free, searchable, digital access to entire contents. Key Features: Uniquely organized with a fully integrated competency-based approach Devotes one or more chapters to each of the nine CSWE professional competencies Delivers abundant case studies that facilitate in-depth understanding and integration of competencies Provides case vignettes, critical thinking and discussion questions, and chapter summaries Includes supplementary instructor resources such as PowerPoints, group discussion questions, and competency-based written assignments with grading rubrics Offers sample syllabi for two separate one-semester courses and a seven-week online course Includes Student Resources, featuring online forms, templates, exercises, plans, and more to provide students with ample practice opportunities

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826178537

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9780826178534

Technocrats of the Imagination

Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde

By: John Beck,Ryan Bishop

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Technocrats of the Imagination

Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde

By: John Beck,Ryan Bishop

In Technocrats of the Imagination John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s, in which artists worked with scientists and engineers in universities, private labs, and museums. For artists, designers, and educators working with the likes of Bell Labs, the RAND Corporation, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, experiments in art and technology presaged not only a new aesthetic but a new utopian social order based on collective experimentation. In examining these projects' promises and pitfalls and how they have inspired a new generation of collaborative labs populated by artists, engineers, and scientists, Beck and Bishop reveal the connections between the contemporary art world and the militarized lab model of research that has dominated the sciences since the 1950s.

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Duke University Press

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147800732X

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9781478007326

Conglomerate Mergers and Market Competition

By: John C. Narver

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Conglomerate Mergers and Market Competition

By: John C. Narver

Business mergers are nowadays much in fashion and in the news, but relatively litte is known about their effects on different aspects of business enterprise, especially their effects on market competition. Narver her distinguishes among three main types of corporate merger: the horizontal, involving firms that produce generally similar items; the vertical, involving a successive (e.g. supplier-customer) relationship between firms and the conglomerate, involving any merger that is neither horizontal nor vertical. Economist have yet to agree on a general definition of the essential aspects of conglomerate mergers or on an adequate description of their effects on competition. the present book derives a precise meaning of conglomerate mergers by analyzing the legislative concern in the 1950 Amendment to Section 7 of the Clayton Act. The book then carefully considers the several factors in conglomerate merges that lead to their ability to affect competition. Most importantly, this analysis suggests under what conditions conglomerate mergers increase competition in a market and under what conditions they lessen it. With notable vigor and patience the author has pieced together various aspects of statistics on conglomerate merge activity, managerial behavior in a diversified firm, and market structure, and has produced the most useful analysis available on the competitive effects of conglomerate mergers. Not everyone will agre with its findings, but here can be no question that legislators, antitrust lawyers, economists, and business people will find them useful. Narver's book is timely because of wide concern with the current wave of mergers, appropriate public policy, and efficient private decision-making. Serval important conglomerate merger cases are now before the courts, and the public policy issues involved are still in the process of clarification. The analysis presented in this book should be important in the discussions of the next several years. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

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Univ of California Press

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0520311981

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9780520311985

Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist

Volume 1 (1860-1914)

By: John Usher

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Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist

Volume 1 (1860-1914)

By: John Usher

In Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist John Usher offers an account of the Anglican-Pentecostal pioneer Cecil Henry Polhill (1860-1938), his prolific missionary travels, generous philanthropy and influential revivalism.

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BRILL

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9004435042

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9789004435049

The Suffolk Laflins/Laughlins - Their Life & Times

By: John Laflin

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The Suffolk Laflins/Laughlins - Their Life & Times

By: John Laflin

This 344 page book, published in 2013, contains the family tree from 1485 through to 1985 with family history material obtained from published sources and family members up to 1911. It looks at the major economic and social changes taking place since 1500 and the influence of those events on the Laflins/Laughlins or their reactions to them.

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346

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Lulu.com

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129149961X

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9781291499612

Leeteg of Tahiti

Paintings from the Villa Velour

By: John F. Turner,Greg Escalante

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Leeteg of Tahiti

Paintings from the Villa Velour

By: John F. Turner,Greg Escalante

A lush tropical setting, exotic models and legendary drinking bouts serve as the backdrop to the larger than life story of Edgar Leeteg. Often referred to as the American Gauguin for his idyllic rendering of the Tahitian people in the 30s, 40s and 50s, Leeteg is best known for his rediscovery and mastery of old technique of painting on velevet.

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Last Gasp

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0867194898

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9780867194890

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

10th Edition

By: John F. Evans

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A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

10th Edition

By: John F. Evans

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works, by John F. Evans, summarizes and briefly analyzes all recent and many older commentaries on each book of the Bible, giving insightful comments on the approach of each commentary and its interpretive usefulness especially for evangelical interpreters of the Bible. A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works is essentially an annotated bibliography of hundreds of commentators. More scholarly books receive a longer, more detailed treatment than do lay commentaries, and highly recommended commentaries have their author’s names in bold. The author keeps up on the publication of commentaries and intends to update this book every three to four years.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310520975

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9780310520979

A History of the Town of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine

By: John Johnston

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A History of the Town of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine

By: John Johnston

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3368197002

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Book's by John F. Turner

Thinking Through Statistics

Thinking Through Statistics

Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature

Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature

The Turtles of Mexico

The Turtles of Mexico

Social Work Practice

Social Work Practice

Technocrats of the Imagination

Technocrats of the Imagination

Conglomerate Mergers and Market Competition

Conglomerate Mergers and Market Competition

Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist

Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist

The Suffolk Laflins/Laughlins - Their Life & Times

The Suffolk Laflins/Laughlins - Their Life & Times

Leeteg of Tahiti

Leeteg of Tahiti

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

A History of the Town of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine

A History of the Town of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine

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