Jonathan L. Crane's Books

End of Life Communication

Stories from the Dead Zone

By: Christine S. Davis,Jonathan L. Crane

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End of Life Communication

Stories from the Dead Zone

By: Christine S. Davis,Jonathan L. Crane

This book examines the dialectic between fictional death as depicted in the media and real death as it is experienced in a hospital setting. Using a Terror Management theoretical lens, Davis and Crane explore the intersections of life and death, experience and fiction, to understand the relationship between them. The authors use complementary perspectives to examine what it means when we speak and think of death as it is conceived in cultural media and as it is constructed by and circulates between patients, health professionals, and supportive family members and friends. Layering analysis with evocative narrative and an intimate tone, with characters, plot, and action that reflect the voices and experiences of all project participants, including the authors’ own, Davis and Crane reflect on what it means to pass away. Their medical humanities approach bridges health communication, cultural studies, and the arts to inform medical ethics and care.

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327

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Routledge

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1351684108

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9781351684101

Off the Grid

Re-Assembling Domestic Life

By: Phillip Vannini,Jonathan Taggart

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Off the Grid

Re-Assembling Domestic Life

By: Phillip Vannini,Jonathan Taggart

Off-grid isn’t a state of mind. It isn’t about someone being out of touch, about a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore, means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day lives of people in each of Canada’s provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart demonstrate how a variety of people, all with different environmental constraints, live away from contemporary civilization. The authors also raise important questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses.

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252

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Routledge

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113501048X

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9781135010485

What a Fish Knows

The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

By: Jonathan Balcombe

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What a Fish Knows

The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

By: Jonathan Balcombe

A New York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes. Although there are more than thirty thousand species of fish—more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined—we rarely consider how individual fishes think, feel, and behave. Balcombe upends our assumptions about fishes, portraying them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed feeding machines but as sentient, aware, social, and even Machiavellian—in other words, much like us. What a Fish Knows draws on the latest science to present a fresh look at these remarkable creatures in all their breathtaking diversity and beauty. Fishes conduct elaborate courtship rituals and develop lifelong bonds with shoalmates. They also plan, hunt cooperatively, use tools, curry favor, deceive one another, and punish wrongdoers. We may imagine that fishes lead simple, fleeting lives—a mode of existence that boils down to a place on the food chain, rote spawning, and lots of aimless swimming. But, as Balcombe demonstrates, the truth is far richer and more complex, worthy of the grandest social novel. Highlighting breakthrough discoveries from fish enthusiasts and scientists around the world and pondering his own encounters with fishes, Balcombe examines the fascinating means by which fishes gain knowledge of the places they inhabit, from shallow tide pools to the deepest reaches of the ocean. Teeming with insights and exciting discoveries, What a Fish Knows offers a thoughtful appraisal of our relationships with fishes and inspires us to take a more enlightened view of the planet’s increasingly imperiled marine life. What a Fish Knows will forever change how we see our aquatic cousins—the pet goldfish included.

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277

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374714339

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9780374714338

A Guide to MATLAB

For Beginners and Experienced Users

By: Brian R. Hunt,Ronald L. Lipsman,Jonathan M. Rosenberg,Kevin R. Coombes,John E. Osborn,Garrett J. Stuck

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A Guide to MATLAB

For Beginners and Experienced Users

By: Brian R. Hunt,Ronald L. Lipsman,Jonathan M. Rosenberg,Kevin R. Coombes,John E. Osborn,Garrett J. Stuck

This is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB, a comprehensive software system for mathematical and technical computing. It contains concise explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood instructions for using MATLAB's programming features, graphical capabilities, simulation models, and rich desktop interface. Written for MATLAB 7, it can also be used with earlier (and later) versions of MATLAB. This book teaches how to graph functions, solve equations, manipulate images, and much more. It contains explicit instructions for using MATLAB's companion software, Simulink, which allows graphical models to be built for dynamical systems. MATLAB's new "publish" feature is discussed, which allows mathematical computations to be combined with text and graphics, to produce polished, integrated, interactive documents. For the beginner it explains everything needed to start using MATLAB, while experienced users making the switch to MATLAB 7 from an earlier version will also find much useful information here.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139452533

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9781139452533

Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes

A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine

By: Jonathan Howard

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Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes

A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine

By: Jonathan Howard

This case-based book illustrates and explores common cognitive biases and their consequences in the practice of medicine. The book begins with an introduction that explains the concept of cognitive errors and their importance in clinical medicine and current controversies within healthcare. The core of the book features chapters dedicated to particular cognitive biases; cases are presented and followed by a discussion of the clinician's rationale and an overview of the particular cognitive bias. Engaging and easy to read, this text provides strategies on minimizing cognitive errors in various medical and professional settings.

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589

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Springer

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3319932241

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9783319932248

Live & Work in Russia and Eastern Europe

By: Jonathan Packer

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Live & Work in Russia and Eastern Europe

By: Jonathan Packer

Anyone hoping to work in the former Communist countries of Europe needs the very best, up-to-date advice. This new book shows where the best possibilities are for both the prospective employee and the enterprising entrepreneur hoping to start a business.

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340

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Vacation Work Publications

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1854581902

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9781854581907

Book's by Jonathan L. Crane

End of Life Communication

End of Life Communication

Off the Grid

Off the Grid

What a Fish Knows

What a Fish Knows

A Guide to MATLAB

A Guide to MATLAB

Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes

Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes

Live & Work in Russia and Eastern Europe

Live & Work in Russia and Eastern Europe

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