Marianna Barr's Books

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Why the Differences Matter

By: Gershon Ben-Shakhar,Marianna Barr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Why the Differences Matter

By: Gershon Ben-Shakhar,Marianna Barr

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking shines an unforgiving light on popular and lucrative ‘miraculous’ practices that promise to offer answers during times of trouble. Throughout the book, the authors unfold the fallacies underlying these practices, as well as consumers’ need and desire to believe in them. Adopting a scientific approach, the book critically evaluates research into cold-reading practices, such as those that claim to be able to communicate with the afterlife or posess supernatural powers, before considering a range of pseudo-sciences including graphology and polygraph interrogation, exposing the pretensions of these practices in a clear and logical fashion. The book seeks to encourage critical thinking throughout, asking whether there is any scientific evidence to support these practitioners’ abilities to supply us with reliable answers, and discussing the various factors that comprise the psychological mechanism of belief. Written in a fluent and accessible style, Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking is aimed at interested professionals and the public at large.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

199

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351402498

ISBN 13

9781351402491

Household Waste Management

Some Insights from Behavioural Economics

By: Marianna Gilli,Susanna Mancinelli,Francesco Nicolli

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Household Waste Management

Some Insights from Behavioural Economics

By: Marianna Gilli,Susanna Mancinelli,Francesco Nicolli

This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling. Environmental behavioural economics is a growing field of research, yet investigation in this area concentrates mostly on energy savings or pollution reduction. The authors highlight the importance of the role of waste management, analysing the effect of monetary and non-monetary incentives and motivations, and explores the complex interplay between motivations, recycling, minimisation and waste policies to affect consumer behaviour. This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers in the fields of waste management and environmental economics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319978101

ISBN 13

9783319978109

Gender and the Organization

Women at Work in the 21st Century

By: Marianna Fotaki,Nancy Harding

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gender and the Organization

Women at Work in the 21st Century

By: Marianna Fotaki,Nancy Harding

Discussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies needs new applied topical gender theories that challenge the limits on what can be said about working lives in organizations. Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century looks to update management organizational studies with the recent developments in gender theory, including theories of embodiment, affect, materiality, identity, subjectification, recognition, and the intertwining of political, social and the psyche. As well as looking backwards at existing feminist and gender theory, this exciting book also looks forward, developing an organizational feminist theory for the twenty-first century. Exploring what feminist ethics of an organization would look like, this volume shows what a revivified feminist organization studies could offer to gender theorists more generally. This book will be of interest not only to management and organization theorists, but also more generally to feminist and gender theorists working across the social sciences, arts and humanities. It will appeal to postgraduate and research students and also to established organization and management scholars working in business schools across the world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

375

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135106061

ISBN 13

9781135106065

A Good Job

Campus Employment as a High-Impact Practice

By: George S. McClellan,Kristina L. Creager,Marianna Savoca

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Good Job

Campus Employment as a High-Impact Practice

By: George S. McClellan,Kristina L. Creager,Marianna Savoca

For many students, working while in college is a defining characteristic of the undergraduate experience. However, student workers often view campus employment as a money-making opportunity rather than a chance for personal development. Likewise, institutions often neglect to consider campus jobs as a means to education and student engagement.It is the distinction between work for remuneration and work for personal development which shapes much of the discussion of student employment throughout A Good Job. This book makes the case for campus employment as a high-impact practice in higher education and provides models for institutional efforts to implement new student employment strategies.Carefully designed campus employment opportunities can have numerous benefits, including career exploration and preparation, learning, and increased engagement leading to increased retention. The authors make the case that employment can and should be a purposeful and powerful component in any higher education institution’s efforts to support student learning, development, and success.This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in capitalizing on the developmental and learning potential of student employment on campus.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000979741

ISBN 13

9781000979749

Sicilian Sisters

Women in La Famiglia

By: Marianna

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sicilian Sisters

Women in La Famiglia

By: Marianna

Sicilian Sisters by Marianna, a novel/script www.siciliansisters.com Nancy and her ancestors migrate to New York and continue control of commodities, unions, politics, etc. There is a flashback that vividly paints a portrait of Nancy (direct descendant of the Spanish Pirates) and now in New York, she runs into obstacles because of her gender. She uses her creative energy and wiles to reach her goals despite the impediment's she faces in getting ahead in the family. Nancy focuses on loyalty and concern for her family. Young, beautiful, and ambitious, she does not let anyone get in her way to reach her personal commitments. She is a testament to the human spirit and uses her ability to transform life's lessons into a positive situation. Nancy's sizzling influence and affectionate side is shown throughout this classic. Marianna delivers a fast-paced story with endearing characters. She deals with the very real subject of grieving, and how family and close friends are important to have around to carry on with life. She gives an important message that is consumed with a heartwarming story. The heroine discovers that you must move on as there is someone waiting just around the corner to carry on with business as usual. The author, Marianna, has successfully written a 350 page screenplay on "Sicilian Sisters". Packed with interesting and exciting characters and brings them alive. A winner for any person that likes action and poignancy in understanding the goals and customs of the Mafia. It is an exciting and fast paced saga that covers several generations of a Sicilian family that migrated to New York. The challenges faced by immigrants and the opportunity to succeed are laced with connections to 'The Family'. It details how Sicilian sisters and their descendants since the 15th century exploited and influenced their husbands' to gain power. They utilized their cunning ways to intimidate the villagers to further their secret goals and passions. Sicilian Sisters delves into Nancy'S 15th century Pirate ancestors, filled with deviant subculture held together by the spirit of revolt and their version of democracy to maintain their social structure. Through the wisdom of their Sicilian wives, the Pirates coerced the people of their village to control it politically, socially, and financially. They were free men that plowed the seas in search of other people's property and expanded their control through the use of violence and plundering on land. The inter-marriage of the women from Sicily with the Pirate brothers became the foundation of the modern day Mafia.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

236

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

0595289932

ISBN 13

9780595289936

Contentious Issues

Discussion Stories for Young People

By: Marianna Csoti

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contentious Issues

Discussion Stories for Young People

By: Marianna Csoti

Challenging prejudice, stereotyping and judgemental behaviour, this book consists of forty discussion stories which reflect society and the problems young people face today. Aimed at promoting discussion and awareness, the author challenges young people to consider events and the part they themselves play in life, thus producing more responsible and independently thinking young adults. In particular, children with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism often have difficulty in coming to grips with social situations, so that the stories in this volume should be especially useful for those working with such children. The stories are primarily intended for group work (although can be used on a one to one basis) and, since young people take more notice of what their peers have to say than adults, it provides an excellent forum for a multitude of opinions to be aired. No previous experience or knowledge of the topics is necessary and the book contains comprehensive guidance for professionals and parents. It is ideal for use in therapy sessions, schools, youth groups, and by parents.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

184642173X

ISBN 13

9781846421730

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices

Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

By: Marianna Charitonidou

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices

Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

By: Marianna Charitonidou

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived. The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and urbanism during the 20th and 21st centuries. It traces their transformations, paying special attention to Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s preference for perspective representation, to the diagrams of Team 10 architects, to the critiques of functionalism, and the upgrade of the artefactual value of architectural drawings in Aldo Rossi, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman, and Oswald Mathias Ungers, and, finally, to the reinvention of architectural programme through the event in Bernard Tschumi and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Particular emphasis is placed on the spirit of truth and clarity in modernist architecture, the relationship between the individual and the community in post-war era architecture, the decodification of design process as syntactic analogy and the paradigm of autonomy in the 1970s and 1980s architecture, the concern about the dynamic character of urban conditions and the potentialities hidden in architectural programme in the post-autonomy era. This book is based on extensive archival research in Canada, the USA and Europe, and will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers and students in architecture, architectural history, theory, cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000896625

ISBN 13

9781000896626

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Why the Differences Matter

By: Gershon Ben-Shakhar,Marianna Barr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Why the Differences Matter

By: Gershon Ben-Shakhar,Marianna Barr

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

199

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351402498

ISBN 13

9781351402491

Book's by Marianna Barr

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Household Waste Management

Household Waste Management

Gender and the Organization

Gender and the Organization

A Good Job

A Good Job

Sicilian Sisters

Sicilian Sisters

Contentious Issues

Contentious Issues

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email