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The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication, second edition

By: James Paradis,Muriel Zimmerman

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The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication, second edition

By: James Paradis,Muriel Zimmerman

A second edition of a popular guide to scientific and technical communication, updated to reflect recent changes in computer technology. This guide covers the basics of scientific and engineering communication, including defining an audience, working with collaborators, searching the literature, organizing and drafting documents, developing graphics, and documenting sources. The documents covered include memos, letters, proposals, progress reports, other types of reports, journal articles, oral presentations, instructions, and CVs and resumes. Throughout, the authors provide realistic examples from actual documents and situations. The materials, drawn from the authors' experience teaching scientific and technical communication, bridge the gap between the university novice and the seasoned professional. In the five years since the first edition was published, communication practices have been transformed by computer technology. Today, most correspondence is transmitted electronically, proposals are submitted online, reports are distributed to clients through intranets, journal articles are written for electronic transmission, and conference presentations are posted on the Web. Every chapter of the book reflects these changes. The second edition also includes a compact Handbook of Style and Usage that provides guidelines for sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, and usage and presents many examples of strategies for improved style.

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MIT Press

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0262265524

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The Denial of Aging

Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies

By: Muriel R. Gillick

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The Denial of Aging

Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies

By: Muriel R. Gillick

You’ve argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer’s and only occasionally recognizes you. Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you’re on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need? With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote and organize—for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic disease. Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not whether it can be prolonged at any cost. “A good old age,” writes Gillick, “is within our grasp.” But we must reach in the right direction.

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Harvard University Press

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0674037596

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9780674037595

Video Games as Culture

Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

By: Daniel Muriel,Garry Crawford

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Video Games as Culture

Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

By: Daniel Muriel,Garry Crawford

Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life. Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives, impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption, communities, and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data – including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives from the video game industry, media, education, and cultural sector – Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, late modernity, and contemporary political rationalities. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such Video Games, Sociology, and Media and Cultural Studies. It will also be useful for those interested in the wider role of culture, technology, and consumption in the transformation of society, identities, and communities.

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Routledge

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1317223926

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Neuropsychological Assessment

By: Muriel Deutsch Lezak

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Neuropsychological Assessment

By: Muriel Deutsch Lezak

This revised text provides coverage of research and clinical practice in neuropsychology. The 4th edition contains new material on tests, assessment techniques, neurobehavioral disorders, and treatment effects.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195111214

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9780195111217

A Cottage in Akin

By: Muriel McAvoy Morley

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A Cottage in Akin

By: Muriel McAvoy Morley

The novel, A Cottage in Akin, is fifty-nine-year-old Ponia Snow's reminiscent and pivotal story of life in the small northeastern Colorado town of Akin. Odessa Luckett-poet, storyteller, gardener extraordinaire, and woman of faith-transforms Ponia's life forever through exemplifying God's love, mercy, and forgiveness. Had it not been for that dear old woman, Ponia may not have survived, nor would she have traced the God-ordained design for her life.

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Inspiring Voices

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1462407668

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9781462407668

The Learning Cycle

Insights for Faithful Teaching from Neuroscience and the Social Sciences

By: Muriel I. Elmer,Duane H. Elmer

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The Learning Cycle

Insights for Faithful Teaching from Neuroscience and the Social Sciences

By: Muriel I. Elmer,Duane H. Elmer

With insights from neuroscience, educational psychology, and learning theory, veteran educators Muriel and Duane Elmer provide a holistic model for how learning takes place. Their learning cycle moves beyond mere recall of information to helping learners value and apply their learning in ways that are integrated into behavior and practice.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830855300

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9780830855308

The Ethnography of Communication

An Introduction

By: Muriel Saville-Troike

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The Ethnography of Communication

An Introduction

By: Muriel Saville-Troike

The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures. Presents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others and surveys the most important findings and applications of their work. Draws on insights from social anthropology and psycholinguistics in investigating the patterning of communicative behavior in specific cultural settings. Includes two completely new chapters on contrasts in patterns of communication and on politeness, power, and politics. Incorporates a broad range of examples and illustrations from many languages and cultures for analyzing patterns of communicative phenomena.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470758228

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9780470758229

Settlin’

Stories of Madison’s Early African American Families

By: Muriel Simms

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Settlin’

Stories of Madison’s Early African American Families

By: Muriel Simms

Only a fraction of what is known about Madison’s earliest African American settlers and the vibrant and cohesive communities they formed has been preserved in traditional sources. The rest is contained in the hearts and minds of their descendants. Seeing a pressing need to preserve these experiences, lifelong Madison resident Muriel Simms collected the stories of twenty-five African Americans whose families arrived, survived, and thrived here in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While some struggled to find work, housing, and acceptance, they describe a supportive and enterprising community that formed churches, businesses, and social clubs—and frequently came together in the face of adversity and conflict. A brief history of African American settlement in Madison begins the book to set the stage for the oral histories.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870208861

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9780870208867

A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park, and Chicago

By: Muriel Scheinman

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A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park, and Chicago

By: Muriel Scheinman

Placing her subjects in a social as well as art historical context, Muriel Scheinman provides engaging catalog entries describing how various pieces came to the university and how critics, faculty, and students received them.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252064429

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9780252064425

Socialization

By: Muriel Darmon

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Socialization

By: Muriel Darmon

How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives in the classic work of key theorists and in contemporary research that has either developed or challenged these ideas. The book argues that, while socialization has sometimes been framed as an outdated, static approach, it in fact remains highly relevant and continues to provide valuable insight into how we come to act and think as we do. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical examples, the book offers a lively, accessible account of primary and secondary socialization, and how they interconnect. By considering socialization as a process that continues throughout the life course, the book highlights the dynamic and enduring ways in which the social world is involved in shaping and reshaping individuals, shedding productive light on the effects of class, gender, and race, as well as on inequality and domination. Socialization will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, as well as other disciplines such as psychology and education.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509553703

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Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality

A Guide to Understanding Traumatic Memory

By: Muriel Salmona

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Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality

A Guide to Understanding Traumatic Memory

By: Muriel Salmona

Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality is a book about traumatic memory—or how lived trauma is repeated by victims as if happening again. The author, internationally renowned psychiatrist Muriel Salmona, lays out a convincing argument for the ways in which victims are neurologically compelled to relive trauma and how, with proper treatment, they can fully heal. Informed by decades of clinical practice, research, and activism, Salmona explains how victims’ behaviors are rooted in neurology as normal responses to abnormal situations. In contrast to a climate of victim-blaming denial, Salmona explains how grave the violation of victims’ human rights truly is and what to do about it in terms of care and prevention. She explains in clear language how to reconstruct victims’ narratives, which are often clouded by traumatic amnesia, and thereby reconnect parts of the brain that were severed during the traumatic event. This is a guide for professionals who work with survivors, for survivors themselves, and for anyone committed to understanding and reducing violence and inequality.

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Taylor & Francis

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104018300X

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9781040183007

Old and Sick in America

The Journey through the Health Care System

By: Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.

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Old and Sick in America

The Journey through the Health Care System

By: Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.

Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change.

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UNC Press Books

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1469635259

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9781469635255

Water and Sustainable Agriculture

By: Iván Francisco García-Tejero,Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo,José Luis Muriel-Fernández,Carmen Rocío Rodríguez-Pleguezuelo

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Water and Sustainable Agriculture

By: Iván Francisco García-Tejero,Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo,José Luis Muriel-Fernández,Carmen Rocío Rodríguez-Pleguezuelo

Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Consequently, agriculture is the largest user of fresh water globally, and irrigation practices in many parts of the world are biologically, economically, and socially unsustainable. Water management should balance the need for agricultural water and the need for a sustainable environment. Water-use efficiency is the prime challenge in worldwide farming practices where problems of water shortages are widespread. Currently, agriculture is undergoing significant changes in innovative irrigation, fertilizer technology, and agronomic expertise. These elements constitute a vital platform for sustainable agricultural success and for preventing environmental damage. This review presents several processes linked to environmental irrigation, balancing environmental protection with improved agricultural production.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400720912

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9789400720916

Book's by Muriel Zimmerman

The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication, second edition

The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication, second edition

The Denial of Aging

The Denial of Aging

Video Games as Culture

Video Games as Culture

Neuropsychological Assessment

Neuropsychological Assessment

A Cottage in Akin

A Cottage in Akin

The Learning Cycle

The Learning Cycle

The Ethnography of Communication

The Ethnography of Communication

Settlin’

Settlin’

A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois

A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois

Socialization

Socialization

Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality

Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality

Old and Sick in America

Old and Sick in America

Water and Sustainable Agriculture

Water and Sustainable Agriculture

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