Professor A H Crisp's Books

The Art of Political Manipulation

By: William H. Riker,Professor William H Riker,William H.. Riker

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The Art of Political Manipulation

By: William H. Riker,Professor William H Riker,William H.. Riker

Riker uses game theory to illustrate political strategy in twelve stories from history and current events, including Lincoln's outmaneuvering of Douglas in their debates and the parliamentary trick which defeated the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1980 Virginia Senate vote.

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Yale University Press

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0300035926

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9780300035926

Private Rights in Public Resources

Equity and Property Allocation in Market-Based Environmental Policy

By: Professor Leigh Raymond

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Private Rights in Public Resources

Equity and Property Allocation in Market-Based Environmental Policy

By: Professor Leigh Raymond

Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights, including so-called rights to pollute, is an increasingly popular environmental policy option. While advocates of this type of market-based environmental policy tend to focus on its efficiency and ecological implications, such policies also raise important considerations of equity and distributive justice. Private Rights in Public Resources confronts these ethical implications directly, balancing political theory and philosophy with detailed analysis of the politics surrounding three important policy instruments--the Kyoto Protocol, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, and the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act. Author Leigh Raymond reviews legislative records and administrative documents and interviews key policymakers. Confirming that much of the debate in the selected policies centers on the equity or fairness of the initial allocation of property rights, he applies the theories of John Locke, Morris Cohen, and others to build a framework for identifying the competing norms of equity in play. Raymond's study reveals that, despite the different historical and ecological settings, the political actors struggled to reconcile similar arguments-and were often able to achieve a similar synthesis of conflicting ownership ideas. Rather than offering a familiar argument for or against these policies on ethical grounds, the book explains how ideas about equity help determine a policy's political fate. Shedding light on the complex equity principles used to shape and evaluate these controversial initiatives, this empirical analysis will be of interest to those on all sides of the debate over market-based policies, as well as those interested in the role of normative principles in politics more generally.

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Routledge

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1136526269

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9781136526268

Anorexia Nervosa

The Wish to Change

By: Professor A. H. Crisp,Neil Joughin,Christine Halek,Carol Bowyer

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Anorexia Nervosa

The Wish to Change

By: Professor A. H. Crisp,Neil Joughin,Christine Halek,Carol Bowyer

This guide to 'self-help' has become highly valued by sufferers from anorexia nervosa, their families and their carers. It relates to Arthur Crisp's much praised text Anorexia Nervosa: Let Me Be, now in its third reprint. Many sufferers report that Anorexia Nervosa: The Wish to Change has provided them with their first private opportunity to reconsider their position and future properly, and then to do more about them. Carers have found it particularly helpful as a joint tool in their work with patients, especially when used alongside the more recently published Anorexia Nervosa: Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment in Primary and Secondary Care and the Patient's Log Book from the same centre.

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Psychology Press

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1317707486

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9781317707486

Traditional Chinese Characters

Learn and Remember 2,193 Character Meanings

By: Alan Hoenig,Professor of Mathematics Alan Hoenig, Dr

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Traditional Chinese Characters

Learn and Remember 2,193 Character Meanings

By: Alan Hoenig,Professor of Mathematics Alan Hoenig, Dr

The pioneering memory technique taught in this book removes the major obstacle to learning modern Mandarin Chinese: how to remember the meanings of more than 2,000 of the most common of traditional Chinese characters--enough to read more than 96 percent of the characters in almost any Chinese text. The lessons included here will help to learn new definitions at a breakneck pace, build up new characters using characters already learned, develop memory tricks to associate meanings with these characters, and fix meanings and characters forever in the mind. This unique manual provides a sure-fire way to master the most challenging and intimidating aspect of learning Chinese, vital for any student of the Chinese language.

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Dr. Alan Hoenig

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0982232438

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9780982232439

The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

By: Chapel Hill Peter A. Coclanis Professor of History University of North Carolina

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The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

By: Chapel Hill Peter A. Coclanis Professor of History University of North Carolina

This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, Coclanis's study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effects of various factors--the environment, the market, economic and political ideology, and social institutions--on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195361016

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9780195361018

Food Chemistry

By: Professor Dr.-Ing. H.-D. Belitz,Professor Dr.-Ing. W. Grosch

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Food Chemistry

By: Professor Dr.-Ing. H.-D. Belitz,Professor Dr.-Ing. W. Grosch

This advanced textbook for teaching and continuing studies provides an in-depth coverage of modern food chemistry. Food constituents, their chemical structures, functional properties and their interactions are given broad coverage as they form the basis for understanding food production, processing, storage, handling, analysis, and the underlying chemical and physical processes. Special emphasis is also giben to food additives, food contaminants and tho understanding the important processing parameters in food production. Logically organized (according to food constituents and commodities) and extensively illustrated with more than 450 tables and 340 figures this completely revised and updated edition provides students and researchers in food science or agricultural chemistry with an outstanding textbook. In addition it will serve as reference text for advanced students in food technology and a valuable on-the-job reference for chemists, engineers, biochemists, nutritionists, and analytical chemists in food industry and in research as well as in food control and other service labs.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662072815

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9783662072813

Creating New States

Theory and Practice of Secession

By: Dr Aleksandar Pavkovic,Professor Peter Radan

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Creating New States

Theory and Practice of Secession

By: Dr Aleksandar Pavkovic,Professor Peter Radan

Secession is the creation of a new independent state out of an existing state. This key volume examines the political, social and legal processes of the practice of secession. Following an analysis of secessionist movements and their role in attempts at secession, eight case studies are explored to illustrate peaceful, violent, sequential and recursive secessions. This is followed by a look at the theoretical approaches and a discussion that focuses on the economic causes. Normative theories of secession are discussed as well as the status of secession in legal theory and practice. The book systematizes our present knowledge of secessions in an accessible way to readers not familiar with the phenomenon and its consequences. It is ideal as a supplementary text to courses on contemporary political and social movements, applied ethics and political philosophy, international relations and international law, state sovereignty and state formation.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409498417

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9781409498414

Girl Trouble

Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

By: Professor Carol Dyhouse

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Girl Trouble

Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

By: Professor Carol Dyhouse

A brilliant cultural history.' Irish Examiner Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of self-obsession, far too busy twerking to care. And this is news. In this witty and wonderful book, Carol Dyhouse shows that where there's a social scandal or a wave of moral outrage, you can bet a girl is to blame. Whether it be stories of 'brazen flappers' staying out and up all night in the 1920s, inappropriate places for Mars bars in the 1960s or Courtney Love's mere existence in the 1990s, bad girls have been a mass-media staple for more than a century. And yet, despite the continued obsession with their perceived faults and blatant disobedience, girls are infinitely better off today than they were a century ago. This is the story of the challenges and opportunities faced by young women growing up in the swirl of the twentieth century, and the pop-hysteria that continues to accompany their progress.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178032555X

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9781780325552

The ITT Core Content Framework

What trainee primary school teachers need to know

By: Professor Jonathan Glazzard,Samuel Stones

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The ITT Core Content Framework

What trainee primary school teachers need to know

By: Professor Jonathan Glazzard,Samuel Stones

This core, concise guide sets out the Core Content requirements for accredited Initial Teacher Training in England (the Core Content Framework (CCF)). It outlines, for primary trainees, what is expected of them – exploring what they need to ‘ *Learn that′ and ‘*Learn how to’. This second edition includes case studies in all chapters exemplifying good practice and making clear links between theory and practice. Also includes a new chapter on the Early Career Framework, supporting new teachers into their first years in the classroom.

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Learning Matters

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1529678749

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9781529678741

Catastrophic Neurologic Disorders in the Emergency Department

By: Mayo Medical School Eelco F. M. Wijdicks M.D. Professor of Neurology

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Catastrophic Neurologic Disorders in the Emergency Department

By: Mayo Medical School Eelco F. M. Wijdicks M.D. Professor of Neurology

This unique text takes a comprehensive approach to the care of patients with neurologic catastrophes immediately after their entry into the emergency department. Wijdicks discusses clinical evaluations, triage, and emergency procedures in detail, and covers many other topics. For this thoroughly updated second edition, he has added eight new chapters, seven of which appear in an entirely new first section on the evaluation of presenting symptoms indicating urgency. The conversational titles of these chapters echo common requests for urgent consultation (e.g. "short of breath," "can't walk or stand," "confused and febrile"). A special feature of this section is the use of algorithms and decision trees in triage - to help the physician make a very fast and yet informed decision. The remaining two sections of the book cover the evaluation and management of evolving catastrophes in the neuraxis and catastrophic neurologic disorders due to specific causes. There is a final new chapter on forensic neurology. This practical handbook will continue to be an invaluable guide for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, emergency physicians, and their residents and fellows. The third volume in the author's trilogy on critical care neurology, it combines the images of a neuroradiology text with the practical advice of an emergency neurology manual without compromising academic rigor.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198037791

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9780198037798

Pro Ecclesia Vol 26-N4

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Pro Ecclesia,Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 26-N4

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Pro Ecclesia,Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto

Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538105861

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9781538105863

The Good, the Bad, and the Just

How Modern Men Shape Their World

By: Professor Riël Vermunt

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The Good, the Bad, and the Just

How Modern Men Shape Their World

By: Professor Riël Vermunt

Drawing on multidisciplinary findings and ideas, this book offers explanations as to why, how and to what extent, people, in an effort to attain justice, allocate social resources between self and others and among others. The role of the essential features of allocation behavior are examined in the newly developed Justice Model, and the work also explores the conditions under which an actor may deviate from a just division of social resources thus instigating a reaction from recipients and observers.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409468453

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9781409468455

Improving Company Productivity

Handbook with Case Studies

By: John W. Kendrick,Professor John Kendrick

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Improving Company Productivity

Handbook with Case Studies

By: John W. Kendrick,Professor John Kendrick

Guide, productivity, enterprise level, measurement, case studies, USA - comparisons, input output, profitability, programme planning, directory of productivity and quality of working life research centres. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables, tables.

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0801829933

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9780801829932

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By: H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

By: H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers. Ingle places Fox within the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of "rude" disciples challenging the status quo, particularly during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers survive--the only religious sect of the era still existing today. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals hitherto unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198024029

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9780198024026

Better Eyesight Magazine Illustrated with 500 Pictures by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates

Natural Vision Improvement

By: William H. Bates,Emeritus Professor Department of Biology William Bates

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Better Eyesight Magazine Illustrated with 500 Pictures by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates

Natural Vision Improvement

By: William H. Bates,Emeritus Professor Department of Biology William Bates

Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates, M.D. July, 1919 to June, 1930 - 132 Magazine Issues. Black & White Version, all in 1 book. Small, Fine Print. (Color Version available in normal size print, 8.5x11 page size in 2 Volumes.) Unedited. Contains all pages, Articles. Includes additional Modern treatments with 500 pictures & Eyecharts. 12 Natural Eyesight Improvement Printable, Color PDF E-Books download with this Paperback book; Dr. Bates Books, Articles, his Original Antique Better Eyesight Magazines, every page, 132 issues & this paperback book, all of Clark Night's books including; 'Do It Yourself- Natural Eyesight Improvement-Original and Modern Bates Method'. Video, Audio lessons in the book chapters.Dr. Bates discovered the natural principles, true function of the eyes and applied relaxation, natural methods to return the eyes, eye muscles, nerves, mind/brain, thought patterns, body (entire visual system) to normal function with healthy eyes and clear vision. The Bates Method of Natural Eyesight Improvement. Dr. Bates Better Eyesight Magazine stories, articles describe how Dr. Bates, Emily Lierman Bates, other Doctors, School Teachers, Bates Method Students, Teachers, Children and Parents used Natural Treatments to remove, correct, prevent many different eye problems without use of eyeglasses, surgery, drugs. The natural treatments they applied removed/prevented; unclear close and distant vision, astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma, conical cornea, cornea scars, wandering/crossed eyes (strabismus) and other conditions. Hundreds of Natural Treatments are listed. The magazines contain `True Life Stories' of the doctors, assistants, patients, treatments. Interesting, entertaining, fun to read. A History book, life in the early 1900's. Vision improvement based `Fairy Stories' and other articles for children are included. The stories produce a positive, relaxed state of mind. This state improves the eyesight. Dr. Bates worked his entire life treating people successfully with Natural Eyesight Improvement. When he cured the eyes, vision of many patients and other doctors in the hospital where he worked with natural treatments, without use of eyeglasses, surgery, drugs and proved his method is fact and that some of the old theories of eye function are incorrect, only theories; the doctors, surgeons that preferred to sell eyeglasses, surgery, drugs expelled him. Dr. Bates then opened his own office, a Clinic in Harlem, New York City. He treated thousands of people by natural methods, including many of the poor people that had little money. He kept his price for medical treatment low and also provided free assistance to people that could not afford to pay for a visit to an Ophthalmologist. His treatments were successful. He cured the young and old, people of all ages, nationalities. The Bates Method is so simple and effective that many of his cured patients, `often children' then went on to cure their parents, teachers and other children of defective vision including crossed, wandering eyes. Read the `true story of the two little girls that restored a blind mans eyesight' in the Oct. 1925 Magazine Issue. Read Dr. Bates full story in Better Eyesight Magazine. Dr. Bates recorded 11 years of work in his clinic, his patients and their varied treatments in his Better Eyesight Magazines, Books and Medical Articles. Dr. Bates discovered Natural Eyesight Improvement, The Bates Method. He discovered the natural, normal function of the eyes and applied natural methods to return the eyes, eye muscles, brain (visual system) to natural, normal function, relaxation with clear vision, healthy eyes. Extra Eyecharts in the PDF E-Book. See 'William H. Bates, Amazon.com Author's Page' for Dr. Bates true Life Story, History, Videos of internal book pages, full description of the Paperback and 12 E-books. Free Natural Eyesight Improvement Audio Training as you move through the book pages, treatments, activities in the video.

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Mary I. Oliver, Clark Night

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1460935098

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9781460935095

Pathology of the Human Placenta

By: Kurt Benirschke MD,Professor Dr med Peter Kaufmann

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Pathology of the Human Placenta

By: Kurt Benirschke MD,Professor Dr med Peter Kaufmann

Pathology of the Human Placenta has become the gold standard in the field for pathologists and obstetrician-gynecologists. Completely up-to-date, this fifth edition continues to be the essential reference for professionals in the field and includes many revised features such as a more detailed index; 700 total illustrations (350 color illustrations); and updated tables.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475741995

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9781475741995

Food Talk

A Man's Guide to Cooking and Conversation with Women

By: H. Lloyd Goodall,Professor H L Goodall, Jr. PhD

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Food Talk

A Man's Guide to Cooking and Conversation with Women

By: H. Lloyd Goodall,Professor H L Goodall, Jr. PhD

Award-winning communication teacher / scholar and cook, Dr. H.L. (Bud) Goodall answers the question "What do women really want?" with lessons guaranteed to provide the most kitchen-shy guy with what he needs to know to satisfy the most ravenous feminine appetites for cooking and for conversation. In this book guys will learn how to: plan a romantic menu ; shop for food and wine ; improve listening and responding skills in ways that women appreciate ; organize and maintain a kitchen ; think creatively about food and its metaphorical meanings for intimate relationships ; develop interesting talking points for dinner dates ; use spice and seasonings ; manage nonverbal presentations of self while dining ; create easy-to-prepare and flavorful pasta, chicken, pork, beef, seafood, and vegetarian meals that are thematically linked to the mood they want to inspire ; enhance relational dialogues ; handle romantic conflicts ; coordinate meals with romantic occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, and Valentine's Day ; interpret and more successfully respond to gender difference in relational talk ; improve intimate communication skills. So what do women really want? They want a man who knows how to cook well and who engages them in meaningful conversations. They want a "guy's guy" who knows his way around a kitchen and is also an everyday romantic. Which is to say, these days women want it all. Now we have a book that teaches men how to give all of it to them."--

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0966405307

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9780966405309

The Continuity of Mind

By: Michael Spivey Professor of Psychology Cornell University

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The Continuity of Mind

By: Michael Spivey Professor of Psychology Cornell University

The cognitive and neural sciences have been on the brink of a paradigm shift for over a decade. The traditional information-processing framework in psychology, with its computer metaphor of the mind, is still considered to be the mainstream approach, but dynamical-systems accounts of mental activity are now receiving a more rigorous treatment, allowing them to more beyond merely brandishing trendy buzzwords. The Continuity of the Mind will help to galvanize the forces of dynamical systems theory, cognitive and computational neuroscience, connectionism, and ecological psychology that are needed to complete this paradigm shift. In The Continuity of the Mind Michael Spivey lays bare the fact that comprehending a spoken sentence, understanding a visual scene, or just thinking about the days events involves the serial coalescing of different neuronal activation patterns, i.e., a state-space trajectory that flirts with a series of point attractors. As a result, the brain cannot help but spend most of its time instantiating patterns of activity that are in between identifiable mental states rather than in them. When this scenario is combined with the fact that most cognitive processes are richly embedded in their environmental context in real time, the state space (in which brief visitations of attractor basins are your thoughts) suddenly encompasses not just neuronal dimensions, but extends to biomechanical and environmental dimensions as well. As a result, your moment-by-moment experience of the world around you, even right now, can be described as a continuous trajectory through a high-dimensional state space that is comprised of diverse mental states. Spivey has arranged The Continuity of the Mind to present a systematic overview of how perception, cognition, and action are partially overlapping segments of one continuous mental flow, rather than three distinct mental systems. The initial chapters provide empirical demonstrations of the gray areas in mental activity that happen in between discretely labeled mental events, as well as geometric visualizations of attractors in state space that make the dynamical-systems framework seem less mathematically abstract. The middle chapters present scores of behavioral and neurophysiological studies that portray the continuous temporal dynamics inherent in categorization, language comprehension, visual perception, as well as attention, action, and reasoning. The final chapters conclude with discussions of what the mind itself must look like if its activity is continuous in time and its contents are distributed in state space.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198038151

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9780198038153

Talk Is Cheap : Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language

Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language

By: Minnesota John Haiman Professor of Linguistics Macalester College

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Talk Is Cheap : Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language

Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language

By: Minnesota John Haiman Professor of Linguistics Macalester College

Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old "talk is cheap" maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to realize that people don't necessarily mean what they say. Phrases such as "Yeah, right" and "I couldn't care less" are so much a part of the way we speak--and the way we live--that we are more likely to notice when they are absent (for example, Forrest Gump). From our everyday dialogues and conversations ("Thanks a lot!") to the screenplays of our popular films (Pulp Fiction and Fargo), what is said is frequently very different from what is meant. Talk is Cheap begins with this telling observation and proceeds to argue that such "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. Author John Haiman traces this sea-change in our use of language to the emergence of a postmodern "divided self" who is hyper-conscious that what he or she is saying has been said before; "cheap talk" thus allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable. Haiman goes on to examine the full range of these pervasive distancing mechanisms, from cliches and quotation marks to camp and parody. Also, and importantly, this text highlights several new ways in which the English language is evolving (and has evolved) in response to our postmodern world view. In other words, this study shows us how what we are saying is gradually separating itself from how we say it. As provocative as it is timely, the book will be fascinating reading for students of linguistics, literature, communication, anthropology, philosophy, and popular culture.

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0195354060

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9780195354065

Lessons on the Journey

By: David H. Nimmer,Dave Nimmer,Of Counsel to Irell & Manella Llp Professor from Practice UCLA School of Law David Nimmer

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Lessons on the Journey

By: David H. Nimmer,Dave Nimmer,Of Counsel to Irell & Manella Llp Professor from Practice UCLA School of Law David Nimmer

This collection of short stories traces life√≠s inevitable patterns: growing up, breaking out, backing down, coming back and letting go. The stories deal with triumph and disappointment. They are about real life, the moments and the feelings we share.

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0931714729

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9780931714726

Aristotle

By: Christopher Shields,Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields

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Aristotle

By: Christopher Shields,Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields

Beginning with a brief biography and concluding with an appraisal of Aristotelianism today, Shields assesses the whole of Aristotle?s philosophy, revealing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking.

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Routledge

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1134456301

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9781134456307

Innovative Teaching and Learning

Knowledge-Based Paradigms

By: Professor Lakhmi C. Jain

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Innovative Teaching and Learning

Knowledge-Based Paradigms

By: Professor Lakhmi C. Jain

Presented are innovative teaching and learning techniques for the teaching of knowledge-based paradigms. The main knowledge-based intelligent paradigms are expert systems, artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing. Expert systems are designed to mimic the performance of biological systems. Artificial neural networks can mimic the biological information processing mechanism in a very limited sense. Evolutionary computing algorithms are used for optimization applications, and fuzzy logic provides a basis for representing uncertain and imprecise knowledge.

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Physica

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3790818682

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9783790818680

"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

By: William H. Jordy,University Professor of Art William H Jordy,Mardges Bacon

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"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

By: William H. Jordy,University Professor of Art William H Jordy,Mardges Bacon

The Symbolic Essence of Modern European Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence'), this collection contains critical writings on works by Mies, Corbusier, Kahn, and Venturi, as well as one previously unpublished text. Jordy leads readers to discover important connections of architecture with art, literature, intellectual history, symbolic structures, social purpose and community. He significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture.

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Yale University Press

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0300094493

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9780300094497

The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Aziz Z. Huq,Frank and Bernice J Greenberg Professor of Law Aziz Z Huq

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The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Aziz Z. Huq,Frank and Bernice J Greenberg Professor of Law Aziz Z Huq

This very short introduction sets out the origins and development of an English-language debate centered around the phrase "rule of law." It aims is to explore the distinctive ethical contribution offered by various thinkers to this specific phrase, first theorized by the English scholar A.V. Dicey, while largely setting aside how the same questions are framed and resolved in other traditions. The book opens by canvassing the classical and early modern sources upon which Dicey and his successors explicitly drew. It then explores the idea of Dicey, who it flags as the first self-conscious theorist of the rule of law. It then recounts his immediate successors. These include a heterogenous range of thinkers, such as Friedrich Hayek, Lon Fuller, Ronald Dworkin, and Tom Bingham. With this genealogy in hand, the book then reflects the important question of why the rule of law (in some version or other) persists-that is, why do actors with the power to cast aside the rule of law not do so? The book next turns to the ways in which the term "rule of law" has diffused across borders, making it a geopolitical phenomenon. Specifically, the phrase was taken toward the end of the twentieth century across borders by actors as diverse as the World Bank, Singapore, and the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, the book closes by examining the way that the rule-of-law tradition can be challenged both as a matter of theory and practice"--

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0197657427

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Spirituality and Social Work

By: Professor Beth R Crisp

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Spirituality and Social Work

By: Professor Beth R Crisp

For much of the twentieth century, professional social work sought to distance itself from its religious origins with the consequence being that the role of spirituality in the lives of service users tended to be sidelined. Yet it is clear that many people begin to explore their spirituality precisely at times when they are trying to make sense of difficult life circumstances or experiences and may come into contact with social workers. In recent years, there has been an increasing understanding that in order to be relevant to the lives of people they work with, social workers need to go beyond their material needs, but there is little understanding of how spirituality can be sensitively incorporated into practice, especially when either practitioners or service users have no religious affiliation or there is no shared religious background. In this pathbreaking volume Beth Crisp offers social workers ideas of beginning conversations in which spiritual values and beliefs may surface, allowing service users to respond from their own framework and to begin to discuss the specific religious or spiritual practices and beliefs which are important to them. She considers spirituality in the context of lived experience, a perspective that she argues breaks down any mystique and suspicion of explicitly religious language by focusing on language and experiences with which most people can identify. Such a framework allows exploration of issues that emerge at different stages in the lifespan, both by persons who are religious and those who do not identify with any formal religion. Most literature on spirituality within social work refers to the elderly, to those who are sick or have been bereaved, yet, as Crisp points out, spirituality is important for people of all ages and not just at seemingly exceptional moments.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409492540

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

Prophetic Witness

By: Professor of French and Comparative Literature Edward K Kaplan,Edward K. Kaplan,Samuel H. Dresner,Samuel Dresner,Professor Samuel H Dresner

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Prophetic Witness

By: Professor of French and Comparative Literature Edward K Kaplan,Edward K. Kaplan,Samuel H. Dresner,Samuel Dresner,Professor Samuel H Dresner

The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, by Richard Leeman, provides an in-depth analysis of President Barack Obamas speeches and writings to explain the power of the 44th presidents speaking. Highly regarded for his eloquent and inspiring rhetoric, Obama is often compared to Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. However, Leemans study shows that Obamas teleological philosophy and discourse more closely resembles Ronald Reagans rhetoric.

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Yale University Press

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0300071868

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Toward Safer Food

Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting

By: Sandra Professor Hoffmann,Michael R. Professor Taylor

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Toward Safer Food

Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting

By: Sandra Professor Hoffmann,Michael R. Professor Taylor

In 1998, a National Academy of Sciences panel called for an integrated, risk-based food safety system. This goal is widely embraced, but there has been little advance in thinking about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system- wide risk analysis framework. Such a framework is the essential scientific basis for better priority setting and resource allocation to improve food safety. Sandra Hoffmann and Michael Taylor bring together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts, to better define the priority setting problem and focus on the scientific and intellectual resources available to construct a risk analysis framework for improving food safety. Toward Safer Food provides a common starting point for discussions about how to construct this framework. The book includes a multi-disciplinary introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological and conceptual approaches on which a system-wide risk analysis framework must draw. It also recognizes that efforts to improve food safety will be influenced by the current institutional context, and provides an overview of the ways in which food safety law and administration affect priority setting. Hoffman and Taylor intend their book to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds. At the same time, they retain the core conceptual sophistication needed to understand the challenges that are inherent in improving food safety. The editors hope that this book will help the U.S. move beyond a call for an integrated, risk-based system toward its actual construction.

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Routledge

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1136524517

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Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World

The End of Exploitation and Exclusion?

By: Professor Max Haller,Anja Eder

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Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World

The End of Exploitation and Exclusion?

By: Professor Max Haller,Anja Eder

A systematic examination of the interaction between class structures, social stratification and ethnic differentiation, Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World sheds light on the manner in which social structures produce different levels of economic inequality, offering a fivefold typology of patterns of ethnic stratification, which can be applied to present-day world regions.

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1409449521

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A Decent Provision

Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

By: Professor John Murphy

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A Decent Provision

Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

By: Professor John Murphy

A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949. At the beginning of this period, the Australian colonies were belligerently insisting they must not have a Poor Law, yet had reproduced many of the systems of charitable provision in Britain. By the start of the twentieth century, a combination of extended suffrage, basic wage regulation and the aged pension had led to a reputation as a 'social laboratory'. And yet half a century later, Australia was a 'welfare laggard' and the Labor Party's welfare state of the mid-1940s was a relatively modest and parsimonious construction. Models of welfare based on social insurance had been vigorously rejected, and the Australian system continued on a path of highly residual, targeted welfare payments. The book explains this curious and halting trajectory, showing how choices made in earlier decades constrained what could be done, and what could be imagined. Based on extensive new research from a variety of primary sources it makes a significant contribution to general historical debates, as well as to the field of comparative social policy.

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1409482138

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Science and Virtue

An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character

By: Professor Louis Caruana

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Science and Virtue

An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character

By: Professor Louis Caruana

Charting new territory in the interface between science and ethics, Science and Virtue is a study of how the scientific mentality can affect the building of character, or the attainment of virtue by the individual. Drawing on inspiration from virtue-ethics and virtue-epistemology, Caruana argues that science is not just a system of knowledge but also an important factor determining a way of life. This book goes beyond the normal strategy evident in the science-ethics realm of examining specific ethical dilemmas posed by scientific innovations. Here Caruana deals with more fundamental issues, uncovering morally significant tendencies within the very core of the scientific mentality and explaining how science, its method, history and explanatory power can shape a conception of the good life.

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1409485099

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9781409485094

Managing Employee Involvement and Participation

By: Jeff Hyman Bob Mason,Professor Jeff Hyman,Dr Bob Mason

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Managing Employee Involvement and Participation

By: Jeff Hyman Bob Mason,Professor Jeff Hyman,Dr Bob Mason

As issues of employee involvement and participation once more evoke considerable controversy, this textbook provides an accessible overview of the main strands, perspectives and debates in current thinking and practice. It adopts a comparative international approach, addressing developments in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, the United States and elsewhere. The authors identify two main strands of evolution: one driven by managerial interests in enhancing and controlling employee commitment and performance; the other deriving from employees' attempts to influence high-level organizational decision-making. In particular, they examine and analyze: the background of key concepts, issues and philosophies underpinning these different strands; the range of current employee involvement methods, from the individualistic and management-led to more regulated collective approaches; and the rationales and responses of employees, unions and employers to the various initiatives. Throughout the book the authors evaluate the contrasting philosophies and practices in the context of the rapidly evolving organizational and economic landscapes of advanced industrialized countries. Relevant factors include declines in manufacturing industries, deregulation of labour markets, intensifying international competition and the ever-increasing globalization of enterprise.

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1446231992

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