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The Adaptive Character of Thought

By: John Robert Anderson

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The Adaptive Character of Thought

By: John Robert Anderson

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0805804196

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Metaphors of Mind

Conceptions of the Nature of Intelligence

By: Robert J. Sternberg

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Metaphors of Mind

Conceptions of the Nature of Intelligence

By: Robert J. Sternberg

Metaphors of Mind seeks to help readers understand human intelligence as viewed from a variety of standpoints, such as those of psychology, anthropology, computational science, sociology, and philosophy. Much of the present confusion surrounding the concept of intelligence stems from our having looked at it from these different standpoints without considering how they relate to each other or how they might be combined into a unified view that goes beyond the boundaries of a particular discipline. Readers of Metaphors of Mind will come away with a comprehensive understanding of the concept of intelligence and how ideas about it have evolved and are continuing to evolve.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521386330

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Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice

The Ironic Triumph

By: Robert P. Rhodes

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Health Care Politics, Policy, and Distributive Justice

The Ironic Triumph

By: Robert P. Rhodes

This book describes and evaluates power and influence in the creation, administration, and distribution of health care in the United States. His work is uniquely concerned with distributive justice as well as power. Who ought to receive more (or less) health care? How should we decide these distributions? Such questions are addressed in works of philosophy with little attention to political, legal, and economic analysis of budget dilemmas, professional and industrial politics, and technology. This volume takes the issue a step further by placing health policy issues in the broader context of American politics, illuminating the conflict between health resources and other needs, and evaluating the trade offs.

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SUNY Press

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0791407780

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9780791407783

Creativity and Development

By: R. Keith Sawyer,Vera John-Steiner,Seana Moran,Robert J. Sternberg,David Henry Feldman,Howard Gardner,Jeanne Nakamura,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Creativity and Development

By: R. Keith Sawyer,Vera John-Steiner,Seana Moran,Robert J. Sternberg,David Henry Feldman,Howard Gardner,Jeanne Nakamura,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other-until now. In this book, scholars influential in both fields explore the emergence of new ideas, and the development of the people and situations that bring them to fruition. The uniquely collaborative nature of Oxford's Counterpoints series allows them to engage in a dialogue, addressing the key issues and potential benefits of exploring the connections between creativity and development. Creativity and Development is based on the observation that both creativity and development are processes that occur in complex systems, in which later stages or changes emerge from the prior state of the system. In the 1970s and 1980s, creativity researchers shifted their focus from personality traits to cognitive and social processes, and the co-authors of this volume are some of the most influential figures in this shift. The central focus on system processes results in three related volume themes: how the outcomes of creativity and development emerge from dynamical processes, the interrelation between individual processes and social processes, and the role of mediating artifacts and domains in developmental and creative processes. The chapters touch on a wide range of important topics, with the authors drawing on their decades of research into creativity and development. Readers will learn about the creativity of children's play, the creative aspects of children's thinking, the creative processes of scientists, the role of education and teaching in creative development, and the role of multiple intelligences in both creativity and development. The final chapter is an important dialogue between the authors, who engage in a roundtable discussion and explore key questions facing contemporary researchers, such as: Does society suppress children's creativity? Are creativity and development specific to an intelligence or a domain? What role do social and cultural contexts play in creativity and development? Creativity and Development presents a powerful argument that both creativity scholars and developmental psychologists will benefit by becoming more familiar with each other's work.

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Oxford University Press

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0195348877

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Ethics in Palliative Care

A Complete Guide

By: Robert C. Macauley

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Ethics in Palliative Care

A Complete Guide

By: Robert C. Macauley

This is a comprehensive analysis of ethical topics in palliative care, combining clinical experience and philosophical rigor. A broad array of topics are explored from historical, legal, clinical, and ethical perspectives, offering both the seasoned clinician and interested lay reader a thorough examination of the complex ethical issues facing patients suffering from life-threatening illness.

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Oxford University Press

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0199313946

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Religion and Prevention in Mental Health

Research, Vision, and Action

By: Robert E Hess,Kenneth I Maton,Kenneth Pargament

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Religion and Prevention in Mental Health

Research, Vision, and Action

By: Robert E Hess,Kenneth I Maton,Kenneth Pargament

Here is the first book which highlights the unique resource of religion in the field of prevention. Until now, religious systems have been a largely undertapped resource of talent, energy, care, and physical and financial assets. Religion and Prevention in Mental Health is a significant new volume that lays a general foundation for preventive work in the religious area. It presents a number of reasons for examining religion as a source for aiding prevention and well-being. The authors dispute the popular notion of religion as damaging to mental health, as well as the idea that religious affiliation is entirely predictive of better mental health. Instead they focus on the framework for living that religions provide which assists believers in anticipating, avoiding, or modifying problems before they develop. For the human service professional willing to build a collaborative relationship with religious systems, this vital book depicts the richness and diversity of religion and shows the interface of religion, well-being, and prevention. Important issues such as the impact of religion on American society and the ethos of mental health and prevention, the historical and contemporary role of the African-American church as an empowering agent and mediating structure for black citizens, the critical roles of theology in determining the attitude of religious systems toward prevention and well-being, the importance of community and personal narratives, and the limitations of religious settings due to their survival concerns and methods to increase their potential to heal are all discussed thoroughly. Through a better understanding of religious settings, programs, and processes, human service professionals can more effectively utilize religion and reach a neglected portion of the population in need of help. In addition, religious leaders, mental health professionals including counselors, social workers, program developers, evaluators, and administrators, and psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists will benefit from the comprehensive material provided in this timely book.

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Routledge

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1317823036

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law

Fundamentals, 2017 Edition

By: Edward P. Welch,Robert S. Saunders,Allison L. Land,Andrew J. Turezyn,Jennifer C. Voss

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law

Fundamentals, 2017 Edition

By: Edward P. Welch,Robert S. Saunders,Allison L. Land,Andrew J. Turezyn,Jennifer C. Voss

For quick access to Delaware Corporation Law when you're away from the office, here's a handy portable version of Folk you can easily carry to court in your briefcase. Adapted from the major 3-volume analysis of Delaware Corporation Law that is constantly cited by courts and relied upon daily by corporate lawyers everywhere, Folk Fundamentals gives you: The complete text of the Delaware General Corporation Law The essential and most commonly used analytic elements of the larger set's commentary Take this convenient one-volume softcover -distillation- any place you need to refer to Folk on the spot. Organized for Quick and Easy Reference! Following the unique and convenient organizational format of the 3-volume set, Folk Fundamentals provides annotated commentary with each section of the statute. Each section's commentary incorporates discussion of every significant court decision (including non-Delaware cases) that interprets the language and intent of that section, and adds the incisive analysis of Folk and his successor authors. This expert commentary synthesizes statute, cases, and analysis into clear, up-to-date guidance that can be put to immediate use in any business activity or situation affected by Delaware Corporation Law . With Folk Fundamentals, you'll be able to: Locate any provision of Delaware Corporation Law--quickly Quote directly from the statute or commentary in the office or the courtroom Support or counter arguments with Folk's proven analysis

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454872454

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Medical Ethics and Humanities

By: Frederick Adolf Paola,Robert Walker,Lois LaCivita Nixon

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Medical Ethics and Humanities

By: Frederick Adolf Paola,Robert Walker,Lois LaCivita Nixon

Medical Ethics and Humanities is a survey of medical ethics and humanities geared toward physician assistants, analyzing important ethics, humanities, and law topics. The book explains the various approaches to ethical analysis and illustrates their application through the use of cases.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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144966279X

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Bioethics

An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice

By: Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman

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Bioethics

An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice

By: Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman

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0763743143

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The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations

The Grisly Business Unit

By: Robert D. Keppel,William J. Birnes

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The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations

The Grisly Business Unit

By: Robert D. Keppel,William J. Birnes

Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of serial killer task forces to learn why. What is the underlying psychology of a serial killer and why this defeats task force investigations? This is the first book of its kind that combines state-of-the-art psychological assessment experience with the expertise of a homicide investigator who has tracked some of this country's most notorious serial killers. The author also brings to the book hands-on best practices gleaned from the experience of other task forces. Readers, both professionals and students, will benefit from the comprehensive and critical case reviews, the analysis of what went wrong, what went right, and the after-action recommendations of evaluators in the US, UK, and Canada. The book covers: * The nature of the psychology of a serial killer * How crime assessment profiling reveals that psychology * Why psychological profiles fail * How serial killer task forces defeat themselves * How the media can, and usually does, undermine the task force operation * The big secret of all serial killer investigations: police already have the killer's name * The best practices for catching a serial killer* Comprehensive case reviews of some of the US's and UK's most baffling serial killer cases* A list of best practices for serial killer task force investigators* Recommendations for how to manage comprehensive files and computer records* Practical advice on how to manage the media: what to say and not to say* Insight into what a serial killer might be thinking and doing to stay away from police* Recommendations for setting up and administering long-term investigations* Practical tips on how to maintain a task force's psychological edge and avoid defeatism

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Elsevier

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0080515398

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9780080515397

Personality in Adulthood

A Five-Factor Theory Perspective

By: Paul T. Costa, Jr.,Robert R. McCrae

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Personality in Adulthood

A Five-Factor Theory Perspective

By: Paul T. Costa, Jr.,Robert R. McCrae

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this influential work argues for the enduring stability of personality across adult development. It also offers a highly accessible introduction to the five-factor model of personality. Critically reviewing different theories of personality and adult development, the authors explain the logic behind the scientific assessment of personality, present a comprehensive model of trait structure, and examine patterns of trait stability and change after age 30, incorporating data from ongoing cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The second edition has been updated throughout with the authors' new findings, ideas, and interpretations, and includes a new chapter on cross-cultural research. It culminates in an additional new chapter that presents a comprehensive theory of personality grounded in the five-factor model.

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Routledge

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1135459711

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Helping Children Learn Mathematics

By: Robert Reys,Mary Lindquist,Diana V. Lambdin,Nancy L. Smith,Anna Rogers,Audrey Cooke,Sue Bennett,Bronwyn Ewing,John West

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Helping Children Learn Mathematics

By: Robert Reys,Mary Lindquist,Diana V. Lambdin,Nancy L. Smith,Anna Rogers,Audrey Cooke,Sue Bennett,Bronwyn Ewing,John West

The third edition of Reys’ Helping Children Learn Mathematics is a practical resource for undergraduate students of primary school teaching. Rich in ideas, tools and stimulation for lessons during teaching rounds or in the classroom, this edition continues to provide a clear understanding of how to navigate the Australian Curriculum, with detailed coverage on how to effectively use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the classroom. This is a full colour printed textbook with an interactive ebook code included. Great self-study features include: auto-graded in-situ knowledge check questions, video of teachers demonstrating how different maths topics can be taught in the classroom and animated, branched chain scenarios are in the e-text.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730369285

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Liver Transplantation and the Alcoholic Patient

Medical, Surgical and Psychosocial Issues

By: Michael R. Lucey,Robert M. Merion,Thomas P. Beresford

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Liver Transplantation and the Alcoholic Patient

Medical, Surgical and Psychosocial Issues

By: Michael R. Lucey,Robert M. Merion,Thomas P. Beresford

Alcohol-induced liver disease, the most common cause of end-stage liver failure in the developed world, is treated increasingly by liver transplantation. This poses especially difficult dilemmas for health care workers in liver transplant programmes. This text, jointly edited by a hepatologist, a surgeon and a psychiatrist, provides a scientific and scholarly review of the medical, surgical and psychosocial aspects of evaluation, surgery and post-liver-transplant care in alcoholics. Drawing on the extensive experience gained in recent years at the University of Michigan Medical Center, practical advice is given, enlivened by the use of case vignettes. The book concludes with a stimulating discussion of the ethical issues surrounding the controversial topic of liver transplantation in alcoholics. Essential reading for all involved in organ transplantation, it will provide valuable insights to all physicians, surgeons, psychiatrists and related health care professionals involved in the care of alcoholic patients.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521433320

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9780521433327

Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory

By: Robert J. Sternberg

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Cognitive Psychology In and Out of the Laboratory

By: Robert J. Sternberg

Sternberg's text balances accessible writing, practical applications and research scholarship, including biologically oriented information. It explores the basics of cognitive psychology through its coverage of cognitive neuroscience.

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SAGE Publications

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1506391745

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Complement-mediated Hemolytic Anemias, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

By: Robert A. Brodsky

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Complement-mediated Hemolytic Anemias, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

By: Robert A. Brodsky

This issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Robert Brodsky, is devoted to Complement-mediated Hemolytic Anemias. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Complement: An overview for the clinician; Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Cold Agglutinin Disease; ABO incompatible blood transfusions; Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria; Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria; Congenital CD59 deficiency; Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS); Typical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS); Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; and Pharmacologic complement inhibitors.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323388914

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9780323388917

The International Politics of East Africa

By: Robert Pinkney

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The International Politics of East Africa

By: Robert Pinkney

This book uses the notion of the public sphere to produce a new view of the history of England in the post-reformation period, tracing its themes from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. The contributors, who are all leaders in their own fields, bring a diverse range of approaches to bear on the central theme. The book aims to put the results of some of the most innovative and exciting work in the field before the reader in accessible form. Each chapter stands alone in representing an important contribution to its own area of study and sub-period as well as to the overall argument of the book. Politics, culture and religion all feature prominently in the resulting analysis, which should be of interest to students and academics of early modern English history and literature.

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Manchester University Press

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0719056160

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Intensive Care

Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

By: Robert Zussman

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Intensive Care

Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

By: Robert Zussman

From this superb fieldwork--observing medical staff on their rounds; interviewing staff, patients, and families; and systematically reviewing hospital records--Zussman reveals the existence of deep conflicts of opinion on how to allocate treatment and resources. He shows that these perspectives depart from the formal principles of medical ethics. He argues that courts and hospital administrators, with their new insistence on taking the rights of patients seriously, have reshaped the way life and death decisions are made. At the same time, Zussman examines doctors' frequent resistance to the precepts of medical ethics: doctors, he shows, often override patients' wishes, justifying their decisions in the name of the patients' best interests while maintaining control over the decision-making process.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226996352

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9780226996356

Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior

By: Robert C. Eaton

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Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior

By: Robert C. Eaton

In the past fifteen years there has been considerable interest in neural circuits that initiate behavior patterns. For many types of behaviors, this involves decision-making circuits whose primary elements are neither purely sensory nor motor, but represent a higher order of neural pro cessing. Of the large number of studies on such systems, analyses of startle circuits compose a major portion, and have been carried out on systems found throughout the animal kingdom. Startle has been an im portant model because of the reliability of the behavioral act for laboratory study and the accessibility of the underlying neural circuitry. However, probably because of the breadth of the subject, this material has never been reviewed in a comprehensive way that presents the elements com mon to startle circuits in the different animal systems in which they occur. This book presents a diversity of approaches based on a broad back ground of animal groups ranging from the earliest nervous systems in cnidarians to the most recently evolved and advanced in mammals. The behaviors themselves are all short latency, fast motor acts, when consid ered on the time scale of the organism, and involve avoidance or evasion, although in some cases we do not yet completely understand their natural role. These behaviors occur in response to stimuli that have sudden or unexpected onset.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489922865

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9781489922861

Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research

By: Robert J. Levine

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Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research

By: Robert J. Levine

The use of human subjects in medical and scientific research has given rise to troubling ethical questions. How should human subjects be selected for experiments? What should they be told about the research in which they are involved? How can their privacy be protected? When is it permissible to deceive them? How do we deal with subjects such as children, fetuses, and the mentally infirm, for whom informed consent is impossible? In this book, Dr. Robert J. Levine reviews federal regulations, ethical analysis, and case studies in an attempt to answer these questions. His book is an essential reference for everyone--members of institutional review boards, scientists, philosophers, lawyers--addressing the ethical issues involved. "[Levine's] experience as a clinician, IRB chairman, writer and editor of a journal devoted exclusively to issues faced by IRBS makes him uniquely qualified to bring together the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions. . . [The book] is sophisticated but readable. . . [and] should be on every IRB administrator's desk and in every medical ethics library."--Norman Fost, M.D., The New England Journal of Medicine "Levine. . . is one of the foremost historians of contemporary clinical science. . . . His book is at once a guide to primary sources for the history of clinical research in the late twentieth century and a pioneering secondary source about that history."--Daniel M. Fox, Bulletin of the History of Medicine "You will be charmed by the [book's] elegance and lucidity and. . . persuaded of its relevance to doctors in any country."--Alex Paton, British Medical Journal "Should be of wide interest to those keen to see advances in medical research brought into general medical practice."--Gilbert Omenn, Issues in Science and Technology

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Yale University Press

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0300042884

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9780300042887

Beyond IQ

A Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence

By: Robert J. Sternberg

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Beyond IQ

A Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence

By: Robert J. Sternberg

Beyond I.Q.: A Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence contends that the influence of certain psychological factors upon intelligence is strong enough to be considered highly significant in the evaluation of I.Q. The triarchic theory of human intelligence, accordingly, reaches "beyond I.Q".

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CUP Archive

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0521278910

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Effective Math Interventions

A Guide to Improving Whole-Number Knowledge

By: Robin S. Codding,Robert J. Volpe,Brian C. Poncy

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Effective Math Interventions

A Guide to Improving Whole-Number Knowledge

By: Robin S. Codding,Robert J. Volpe,Brian C. Poncy

Building foundational whole-number knowledge can help put K-5 students on the path to academic success and career readiness. Filling a gap for school practitioners, this book presents step-by-step guidelines for designing and implementing classwide, small-group, and individual interventions for mathematics difficulties. Effective procedures for screening, assessment, intervention selection, and progress monitoring are described and illustrated with detailed case vignettes. User-friendly features include 20 reproducible handouts and forms; the print book has a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

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Guilford Publications

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1462528287

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Psychology of Science

Implicit and Explicit Processes

By: Robert W. Proctor,E.J. Capaldi

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Psychology of Science

Implicit and Explicit Processes

By: Robert W. Proctor,E.J. Capaldi

The study of science, sometimes referred to as metascience, is a new and growing field that includes the philosophy of science, history of science, sociology of science, and anthropology of science. In the last ten years, the formal study of the psychology of science has also emerged. The psychology of science focuses on the individual scientist, influenced by intelligence, motivation, personality, and the development of scientific interest, thought, ability, and achievement over a lifespan. Science can be defined as explicitly and systematically testing hypotheses. Defined more broadly, science includes wider processes, such as theory construction and the hypothesis testing seen in children and "non-scientific" adults. Most prior work in the study of science has emphasized the role of explicit reasoning; however, contemporary research in psychology emphasizes the importance of implicit processes in decision-making and choice and assumes that the performance of many tasks involves a complex relationship between implicit and explicit processes. Psychology of Science brings together contributions from leaders in the emerging discipline of the psychology of science with other experts on the roles of implicit and explicit processes in thinking. Highlighting the role of implicit processes in the creation of scientific knowledge, this volume links the psychology of science to many strands of psychology , including cognitive, social, and developmental psychology, as well as neuroscience. Ultimately, this volume raises awareness of the psychology of science among psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists of science, and anyone interested in the metasciences.

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Oxford University Press

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0199908583

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Directory of Hydrobiological Laboratories and Personnel in North America

By: Robert W. Hiatt

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Directory of Hydrobiological Laboratories and Personnel in North America

By: Robert W. Hiatt

Growing interest in hydrobiology and the resulting increase in facilities for education and research have made an up-to-date directory of hydrobiological laboratories in North America a necessity. The present directory, listing 187 laboratories, with provisions for instruction and research and scope of activities, is designed to be useful not only research scholars but to young scientists in training and to visiting investigators as well. The address, senior officer, institutional affiliation, objectives, scope of activities, season of operation, and environments stressed are given for each laboratory. In addition, major research facilities, capital equipment, and provisions for publications are indicated as well as descriptions of accommodations available, instructional program, teaching facilities and scientific staff. Biographical sketches of 1,300 personnel give institutional affiliation, mailing address, field of specialization, current research project, and field experience by geographical region. A cross-reference index lists each laboratory under its official name, the sponsoring agency, and the area in which it is located. Data for all laboratories are broken down into a treatment of inland laboratories (fresh-water) and coastal laboratories (marine), and finally segregated by geographical area.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824884701

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Promotion of Social Awareness

Powerful Lessons for the Partnership of Developmental Theory and

By: Robert L. Selman

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Promotion of Social Awareness

Powerful Lessons for the Partnership of Developmental Theory and

By: Robert L. Selman

Education specialists have written volumes on the best ways to help children learn to read and write, but who is helping them navigate the potentially treacherous waters of social interactions? While in school to study, children are also preoccupied with understanding the rules governing social relationships. Issues of trust and loyalty, rivalry and conflict, belonging and exclusion affect all school-aged children, but very few lesson plans include social development skills. The Promotion of Social Awareness summarizes thirty years of research on the social development of children in elementary and middle school, and shows how this work has led to a series of programs that promote the social competence of children and adolescents. Rich with lessons drawn from real life, the book includes an in-depth account of the author's partnership with an innovative program designed to help educators promote a sound ethic of social relationships among children, a case study of a teacher particularly gifted at promoting such relationships, and the tale of how the author's theoretical framework fared cross-culturally when exported to Iceland. The Promotion of Social Awareness documents Robert Selman's efforts both as a practitioner trying to help young people develop their interpersonal skills and as a researcher attempting to understand the factors that promote or hinder social development. Selman believes that getting along with others involves concrete and measurable social skills and actions that can be taught. The book underlines how the science of social development has given rise to initiatives and programs that can be used in educational settings to help children get along with each other, and may in the long run help prevent violence, drug abuse, and prejudice. Unique in its marriage of theory and practice, The Promotion of Social Awareness will appeal to a wide readership, including developmental psychologists, educators, and parents.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610444892

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Transplantation Ethics, Second Edition

By: Robert M. Veatch,Lainie F. Ross

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Transplantation Ethics, Second Edition

By: Robert M. Veatch,Lainie F. Ross

Three decades after the first heart transplant surgery stunned the world, organs are transplanted every day. Now, a medical ethicist, who has been involved in the debate for many years, offers a complete and systematic account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants. "Without question, the best and most important book on this topic". -- James F. Childress, University of Virginia.

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Georgetown University Press

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1626161674

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Reconstructing Undergraduate Education

Using Learning Science To Design Effective Courses

By: Robert B. Innes

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Reconstructing Undergraduate Education

Using Learning Science To Design Effective Courses

By: Robert B. Innes

This book is designed to introduce professors and administrators in higher education to the philosophical, theoretical, and research support for using a constructivist perspective on learning to guide the reconstruction of undergraduate education. It presents an original framework for systematically linking educational philosophy and learning theories to their implications for teaching practice. In this volume, Innes summarizes the sources he found most useful in developing his own set of teaching principles and course development process, and makes an argument for a particular perspective on learning--transactional constructivism--which is consistent with the philosophy of John Dewey and supported by current theory and research in learning science. Transactional constructivism, a combined approach, builds on the strengths of two competing views: psychological constructivism and the sociocultural perspective. Reconstructing Undergraduate Education: Using Learning Science to Design Effective Courses: *overviews the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the teaching model that is the focus of the volume; *presents a summary of Dewey's educational philosophy and connects his work to current theory and research in learning science; *examines psychological constructivism, one of the basic positions within the range of learning theories that takes a constructivist perspective; *offers a case study example of a course designed and taught from this perspective; *reviews the sociocultural and the transactional constructivist perspectives; *explores the quality of dialogue and disciplinary discourse in the classroom--an issue that is critical to the success of models derived from a transactional constructivist perspective on learning; and *explores broader issues related to reform in higher education. This volume is a vital resource for all professionals involved in undergraduate education.

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A Focus on Fractions

Bringing Mathematics Education Research to the Classroom

By: Marjorie M. Petit,Robert E. Laird,Caroline B. Ebby,Edwin L. Marsden

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A Focus on Fractions

Bringing Mathematics Education Research to the Classroom

By: Marjorie M. Petit,Robert E. Laird,Caroline B. Ebby,Edwin L. Marsden

The third edition of this book offers a unique approach to making mathematics education research on the teaching and learning of fraction concepts readily accessible and understandable to pre-service and in-service K-8 mathematics teachers. Revealing students’ thought processes with extensive annotated samples of student work and vignettes characteristic of classroom teachers’ experience, this book provides teachers a research-based lens to interpret evidence of student thinking, inform instruction and ultimately improve student learning. Based on research gathered in the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP), and updated throughout, this engaging and easy-to-use resource also features: Two new chapters dedicated to understanding the OGAP Fraction Framework and Progression—based on research conducted with hundreds of teachers—to gather and interpret evidence of student learning along a learning progression, referenced throughout the book so readers can apply the concepts to their instruction; A close focus on student work, including 180+ annotated pieces of student work, to help teachers improve their ability to recognize, assess, and monitor their students’ errors and misconceptions, as well as their developing conceptual understanding; A discussion of decimal fractions, also new to the third edition; In-chapter sections on how Common Core State Standards for Math (CCSSM) are supported by math education research; End-of-chapter Looking Back questions to allow teachers to analyze student thinking and consider instructional strategies for their own students; Instructional links to help teachers relate concepts from each chapter to their own instructional materials and programs; Accompanying online Support Material includes an answer key to Looking Back questions, as well as a copy of the OGAP Fraction Framework and Progression. A Focus on Fractions is part of the popular A Focus on . . . collection, designed to aid the professional development of pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers. As with the other volumes on addition and subtraction, ratios and proportions, and multiplication and division, this updated new edition bridges the gap between what math education researchers know and what teachers need to know in order to better understand evidence in student work and make effective instructional decisions.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000601994

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Guardianship Reality

Who’S Looking out for America’S Abandoned, Abused, Neglected Children & Elderly?

By: Robert Fertig,Fernando Gutierrez

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Guardianship Reality

Who’S Looking out for America’S Abandoned, Abused, Neglected Children & Elderly?

By: Robert Fertig,Fernando Gutierrez

WHOS LOOKING OUT FOR AMERICA'S ABUSED & NEGLECTED CHILDREN & THE ELDERLY? The court orders Professional Guardians to make critical decisions; this pragmatic guide explains how to make those decisions. It guides the reader through the process of making bio-ethical healthcare, ethical social and welfare choices, and how to prudently manage client assets, while avoiding conflicts of interest. Responsibility for making life-and-death decisions for children and the elderly is much more difficult than making individual decisions for oneself. Nationally, 3.6 million referrals are made to Child Protection Investigators, involving 6.6 million children annually. The U.S. happens to be the worst among developed industrial nations, losing 4-to-7 children every day to parental abuse and neglect. Florida is the nations grayest state. Nearly 25% of the Sunshine states population are seniors. They should be the nations leader in Eldercare and Childcare laws, standards, and support systems. Are they? There are many sensationalistic stories about guardianship exploitation and fraud. Guardianship Reality provides a balanced view by two authors who have handled dozens of complex cases annually. The facts are that guardianship is a very honorable profession dedicated to the Best Interests of Children and the Elderly. Innuendo, accusations, and deceitful news is not limited merely to politics. Co-author, Fernando Gutierrez, has been accused of exploitation, weeks before this book was published. The Truth Shall Set You Free! If youre not accused of something, youre probably not doing your job. Authors

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1524698261

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Bioethics

By: Nancy S. Jecker,Professor Nancy S Jecker, Ph.D.,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman

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Bioethics

By: Nancy S. Jecker,Professor Nancy S Jecker, Ph.D.,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman

Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice, Third Edition provides readers with a modern and diverse look at bioethics while also looking back at early bioethics cases that set ethical standards in healthcare. It is well suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who plan to pursue careers in nursing, allied health, or medicine, as well as professionals seeking a comprehensive reference in the field. The authors retain the unique three-pronged approach, discussing the history, the methods, and the practice of bioethics. This approach provides students with a breadth of information, focusing on all sides of the issue, which will allow them to think critically about current bioethical topics. The third edition is updated throughout with new information and cases including, the latest on genetics and reproductive technology, physician-assisted suicide, as well as numerous new cases.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449635865

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease

By: A. Catherine Ross,Benjamin Caballero,Robert J. Cousins,Katherine L. Tucker

This widely acclaimed book is a complete, authoritative reference on nutrition and its role in contemporary medicine, dietetics, nursing, public health, and public policy. Distinguished international experts provide in-depth information on historical landmarks in nutrition, specific dietary components, nutrition in integrated biologic systems, nutritional assessment through the life cycle, nutrition in various clinical disorders, and public health and policy issues. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Eleventh Edition, offers coverage of nutrition's role in disease prevention, international nutrition issues, public health concerns, the role of obesity in a variety of chronic illnesses, genetics as it applies to nutrition, and areas of major scientific progress relating nutrition to disease.

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1284229858

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Case Studies in Nursing Ethics

By: Sara T. Fry,Robert M. Veatch

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Case Studies in Nursing Ethics

By: Sara T. Fry,Robert M. Veatch

Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice through analysis of over 150 actual ethical case study conflicts that have occurred in the practice of nursing. Each case study allows readers to develop their own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the situation.

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0763730378

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