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How do I become a computer forensics specialist?
I am in college right now on a Computer Science major. I wanted to be a policeman but my parents aren’t comfortable with it. I heard about this career and want to know more about it as I would love to help fight crime. Thanks!
The Computer Science major you are in now will give you some good background but you will need some additional certifications and training.
The good news for your parents is there are some jobs in this field outside the police career. I have many wonderful friends who are policemen and they will all tell you it is stressful and difficult. One need only to look at divorce stats for policemen to see that.
Also, you might find some work in government areas (FBI, Customs, U.S. Attorney, Homeland Security) involving computing forensics, computing security, cryptography, etc.
I have given you a link to a super sharp forensics guy I know. Just from going through all the links on his site you will be able to get some ideas of what you need to do. Here are some of the certs you will need to work towards:
All Examiners hold multiple certifications in a variety of disciplines, including:
•IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner.
•EnCE EnCase Certified Examiner.
•IACIS Certified Electronic Evidence Collection Specialist.
•IACIS Advanced Seizure and Processing of DOS, Windows Based Computers Certification.
•IACIS Advanced Forensic Network Essentials Certificate.
•SCERS (Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist, FLETC).
•FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center).
•HTCN Advanced Certification, Computer Crime Investigator.
•HTCN Advanced Certification, Computer Forensic Technician.
•EnCase™ Advanced Computer Forensics Certificate.
•ACFS Certified Fraud Specialist.
•California Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Security and Investigative Services license 20551.
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How to Build a Fizzy Rocket $27.93 Simple text and full-color photos instruct readers how to build a fizzy rocket and explain the science behind the activity. |
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How to Make Bubbles $5.19 “Simple text and full-color photos instruct readers how to make bubbles and explain the science behind the activity”–Provided by publisher. |
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How to Make Slime $27.19 Simple text and full-color photos instruct readers on how to make slime and explain the science behind the activity. |
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How to Build a Tornado in a Bottle $27.93 “Simple text and full-color photos instruct readers how to build a tornado in a bottle and explain the science behind the activity”– |
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More Award-Winning Science Fair Projects $11.16 Presents forty award-winning science fair projects, a section on how to do a science fair project, updates to science fair rules and science supply resources, as well as new material on useful web sites. |
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Elementary Science Methods $131.37 In this pioneering text, a constructivist approach guides users in learning how to teach in a constructivist manner. The book is based on the belief that it’s more important for children to learn how to do science than it is for them to learn about scienc |
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The Art and Science of Wine $22.36 How wine is made, from field to cellar to bottle.Great wine is a complex blend of nature, art and science. In this updated new edition of a classic book, the “how and why” of a wine’s creation are examined in detail.Acclaimed wine writers James Halliday a |
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How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Personal Space Travel $3.99 Personal space travel is no longer the stuff of science fiction. The future is here: Civilians are launching into orbit. How to Build Your Own Spaceship takes readers on a fun and quirky trip to the forefront of commercial space travel – the latest technology, the major business players, and the personal and financial benefits that are ripe for the picking. Science-writer Piers Bizony’s breadth of knowledge, quick wit, and no-nonsense explanations of the hard science in this emerging arena will satisfy even the most dedicated space fanatics. With practical advice (from picking the best jet fuel to funding your own fleet of space crafts), unbelievable space facts, and fascinating photos, Bizony’s user-friendly guide to blasting off is a must-have ticket to the final frontier. |
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Stress Less: The New Science That Shows Women How to Rejuvenate the Body and the Mind $5.99 Forty-two million American women – those between the ages of forty and sixty – experience the most stress of anyone in the world. And it shows, inside and out: from wrinkles and gray hair to the cells at the very core of our bodies. In Stress Less, prominent health and science journalist Thea Singer explores what the new science of stress can tell us about how to turn back the cellular clock. Drawing on cutting-edge information from a who’s who of stress researchers, including Nobel Prize-winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, Singer explains how women’s bodies react to stress, from shifts in mood to changes at a genetic level that affect how women look and feel, and even how long they live. But Singer also details how easy lifestyle changes can reduce the frequency and intensity of the body’s reactions – thus minimizing the hazardous effects of stress and giving us the necessary tools to feel better, look younger, and live longer. |
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The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book $6.68 Provides instructions on how to conduct experiments, explains scientific terms, and teaches fun science facts. |
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Bible And Science Made Easy $3.97 “Learn how the truth of the Bible and the conclusions of science relate with this new pocket reference book: Discover how science confirms teh Bible story Find out how archaeology is uncovering more about Bible Times See how nature itself reveals God’s handiwork Plus a seven page pull out chart about the Bible and the cosmos.” |
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Champions Of Science $6.99 “The great minds of the past are still with us today, in many ways. Individuals who explored the natural world hundreds and thousands of years ago have given us a treasure of knowledge in all the sciences.In this exciting series from educator/author John Hudson Tiner, short biographies of the world’s most gifted thinkers will inspire the leaders of tomorrow.Chuckle at the story of Archimedes doing his best thinking in the bathtub! Read how religious persecution gave Kepler his greatest opportunities to study astronomy.These valuable learning guides will give students accurate accounts of lives from the annals of science, and explain what those scientists believed about the world around them.” |
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National Geographic Fight Science $14.71 Rated: NRSynopsis: National Geographic reveals the science behind mixed martial arts, special operations and self-defense in Fight Science. From martial artists who defy what many people think is humanly possible – to elite military units trained to become ultimate warriors – to masters of self-defense who teach how to fight for your life, Fight Science analyzes how these experts generate the power and speed behind each move. |
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Science Fair Projects for Dummies $7.99 Stuck on what to do for a science project? This easy-to-follow guide is chock-full of fun ideas and experiments ranging from botany to zoology. You’ll discover how to develop a topic, research and assemble your project, and present it at the science fair so that it gets a lot of favorable attention – and impresses the judges! |
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Constructing Early Childhood Science $88.81 “Constructing Early Childhood Science” focuses on teaching children how to actively engage in the scientific process, rather than learn about it passively. Each chapter begins with at least one hands-on activity, designed to help young science students b |
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People’s History of Science $13.4 We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysterie |
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Fight Science [2 Discs] $14.49 National Geographic reveals the science behind mixed martial arts, special operations and self-defense in Fight Science. From martial artists who defy what many people think is humanly possible – to elite military units trained to become ultimate warriors – to masters of self-defense who teach how to fight for your life, Fight Science analyzes how these experts generate the power and speed behind each move. Featuring amazing visuals and spectacular CGI that has become of the Fight Science legend, National Geographic reveals the secrets of some of the most powerful fighting techniques in the world and explores the incredible physiology and training of fighting masters |
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How to Mellify a Corpse: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstition $5.99 In How to Mellify a Corpse, Vicki León brings her particular hybrid of history and humor to the entwined subjects of science and superstition in the ancient world, from Athens and Rome to Mesopotamia, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Carthage. León covers subjects as diverse as astronomy and astrology, philosophy and practicalities of life and death (including the titular ancient method of embalming), and ancient mechanical engineering. How to Mellify a Corpse of course invokes legendary thinkers (Pythagoras and his discoveries in math and music, Aristotle’s books on politics and philosophy, and Archimedes’ “Eureka” moment), but it also delves deeply into the lives of everyday people, their understanding and beliefs. A feast for the curious mind, How to Mellify a Corpse is not only for those with an interest in the experimental: it’s for anyone who’s inspired by the imagination and ingenuity humanity uses to understand our world. |
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Science and Its Limits $16.99 “Science, especially naturalistic science, has come under fire of late. No longer does it command the near universal respect it once held. From the right has come a fresh attack on Darwinism and arguments for intelligent design. From the left postmodernist theorists have attacked the very notion of objective truth claims, scientific or otherwise.>Into the fray Del Ratzsch breathes a breath of calm. He asks, What is science? What can it tell us? What can it not tell us? What challenges does it offer to Christian faith? How should a Christian respond?>Originally published under the title Philosophy of Science, this revised volume surveys how views of science have developed and changed over time, especially since the Kuhnian revolution of the 1960s. Now updated to reflect the current discussions of intelligent design and postmodern views of science, Science & Its Limits offers readers a thoughtful perspective on current trends and useful advice on how to approach faith and science issues.” |
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Science of Sailing $14.93 This fascinating tour through the magic of sailing will improve your skills while it satisfies your curiosityBy what alchemy do rudder, sail and keel transform air into motion? How does a boat sail into the wind, how mediate between water and wind? How is |
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No Fair Science Fair $11.16 As the judging of his class’s science fair approaches, Otis has trouble even thinking of an idea but once he has built a bird feeder he is determined to make some good observations, no matter how long it takes. |
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Leadership And the New Science $15.64 Wheatley describes some recent discoveries in scientific fields such as biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics and explains how understandings gleaned from this “new science” may be applied to the world of organizations and management. The emphasis th |
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Introducing Science Communication $70.93 From climate change to stem cell research, this book shows how to communicate complex scientific issues to the masses. Each chapter explains key methods and issues, providing the reader with practical and theoretical understanding of science communication |
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Parallel Curriculum Units for Science $29.08 Based on the best-selling book The Parallel Curriculum, this resource deepens teachers’ understanding of how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) to provide rigorous learning opportunities for students in science, grades 6-12. This collection of sam |
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Science Fiction Film $22.36 Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential genre has been constructed from disparate elements into a h |
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Femininity, Mathematics and Science 1880-1914 $70.93 Through the prism of gender, this book examines the contrasting cultures and practices of mathematics and science in the decades surrounding 1900 and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones explores ideas about women’s intellect and femininity and a |
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Introduction To Management Science $159.75 The purpose of this text is to provide the student with a comprehensive coverage of how management science concepts and approaches can be applied to improve management decision-making. The emphasis is on the translation of mathematical modeling concepts i |
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The Science of Star Wars $13.43 Former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos examines the scientific possibility of the fantastical world of Star Wars. She explains to non-technical readers how the course of science might soon intersect with such fantasies as interstellar travel, robots ca |
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The Simple Science of Flight $17.13 From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same aerodynamic principles. In The Simple Science of Flight, Henk Tennekes investigates just how machines and creatures fly: what size wings they n |
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Principles of Seed Science and Technology $145.6 This fourth edition of the successful textbook provides an updated introduction to the science and technology of seeds. It presents a straightforward exploration of the seed as a biological system, from its origin and examines the fundamentals of how s |
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Cold War Social Science $67.2 From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States, which became the world’s acknowledged leader in the field. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this ra |
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New Science of the Paranormal $11.16 Documents case studies of paranormal research failures while explaining why and how mainstream science rejects the paranormal, in a provocative report that outlines the principles for revitalizing research in the areas of clairvoyance, mediumship, and psy |
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Science With Plants $4.47 Provides activities and experiments related to plant identification and growth, encouraging young readers to learn how to tell the age of a tree, what three things plants need to grow, and how seeds spread to new places. |
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Interactive Science Library $24.99 Science comes alive with Britannica and the amazing SD-X Reader. Touch pages with the SD-X REader to hear thousands of fun facts. Learn how volcanoes erupt. Land on Titan with a space probe. Find out what’s in your cranium. Explore our universe with Encyclopedia Britannica – a world leader in teaching science to kids. Colorful illustrations and audio engage young learners. Older students explore at their own pace. Correlates to grades 5 to 8 science curriculum. |
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In The Laboratory (Crime Scene Science) $2.99 There has been a murder. A victim lies dead. The police seal off the crime scene and call in the forensics experts. Crime Scene Science takes a behind-the-scenes look at the world of forensics: from the crime scene to the crime laboratory. Each book is packed with real-life case studies and fascinating information about science and technology in action. In this book, find out what happens to evidence samples after they are collected at a crime scene. Discover how science is used to solve crimes and bring perpetrators to justice. |
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Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities $26.88 This book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in |
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How Come? Planet Earth $5.99 A direct follow-up to the original How Come?, How Come? Planet Earth is packed with lively answers to questions that kids have about animals, the human body, earth science, and just everyday stuff. |
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How To Live On Mars $10.41 This amusing guide combines an irreverent spirit with insightful real science in its collection of tips for how to inhabit the red planet. It covers the basics of how to get to Mars, from the preferred mode of intergalactic transport to the most practical |
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Teaching Religion and Science $36.81 Can religion and science co-exist successfully in the classroom?How can you encourage an environment where differing views are treated positively?How do you help students apply their understanding of religious beliefs and scientific theory to a range of u |
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Global Pollution (21st. Century Science) $3.99 Is pollution just a modern problem? How does pollution affect the food we eat? How fast is the hole in the ozone layer growing? Packed with breathtaking imagery and fascinating first-hand accounts, 21st Century Science explores the science that surrounds us. |
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Adventure Time Science Dance Girls T-Shirt Plus Size 3XL $26.5 Finn and Jake know how to impress the ladies – Science Dance!! |
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Adventure Time Science Dance Girls T-Shirt Plus Size 4XL $28.5 Finn and Jake know how to impress the ladies – Science Dance!! |
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Adventure Time Science Dance Girls T-Shirt Plus Size $24.5 Finn and Jake know how to impress the ladies – Science Dance!! |
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How to Make a Mystery Smell Balloon $27.93 Simple text and full-color photos instruct readers how to make a mystery smell balloon and explain the science behind the activity. |
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Simple Science $4.22 The news that the Get Up Kids were reuniting to go on tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their landmark emo-pop classic Something to Write Home About was exciting enough. That they found the time and desire to hit the studio was potentially just as thrilling. When the band hung it up in 2005 due to all sorts of internal conflicts, it really seemed like there would never be another Get Up Kids record. Now that they’ve done it, the question becomes does it add to their legacy or detract from it? The verdict falls strongly in the former camp. The 2010 EP Simple Science may not break any new ground for the band and it may not measure up to their best, most powerful work, but it does deliver four tracks that, for the most part, have all the passion, hooks, and emotion of vintage Kids records. Certainly Matthew Pryor’s vocals sound as brutally honest as ever, and the rest of the band sounds like they are having a blast playing together again. The only new wrinkles are the stripped-down production, which most likely stems from the group releasing the record themselves, and the increased reliance of atmospheric keyboards that give the songs a spacy sound. These are most evident on the closing track “How You’re Bound,” which sounds like it was turned inside-out and dipped in reverb. Simple Science won’t take the place of Something in the hearts of Get Up Kids fans, but it’s a welcome comeback all the same. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi |
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Bad Science $11.2 Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got appro |
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A Word of Science $11.98 One year following the entry of “Aftermath” into the British charts, Nightmares on Wax released a first full-length that rivalled any other techno debuts of the time, excepting only its immediate predecessor in the Warp catalog — LFO’s Frequencies. The “Aftermath” blueprint (skeletal bleep techno with the dark undercurrents cropping up in much post-rave techno) is in full force on several tracks, like the follow-up club hit “Dextrous” and the depth-plumbing bass of “A Case of Funk.” Elsewhere, though, NoW expand the sound of bleep in several intriguing directions: “Coming Down” represents with paranoid breakbeats wrapped around a minimalist framework; “Playtime” sounds reminiscent of Soul II Soul; “How Ya Doin’” is a great old-school shout-out track; and “Mega Donutz” brings a British spin to playful American hip-hop like De La Soul. Unjustly relegated to the history bins (and even more of a relic because of its radical differences from the later NoW catalog), A Word of Science is much more than just the other great early Warp LP. ~ John Bush, Rovi |
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The Science of Addiction $23.89 A leading addictions specialist presents information about the neurobiology of drug and alcohol addictions and how individuals with addictions respond to various therapies. The strong focus on the most co |
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Science Of Spelling $20.53 This book breaks down preconceptions and misconceptions about how kids learn to spell, making startling new connections between orthography and literacy. |
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Science Measurements $24.25 Shows how measurements are used while making cookies, where volumes, temperature, and time must be accurately measured using different units. |
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Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs $23 “no description” |
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The Spirituality of Science Participant’s Guide: How Science Strengthens Faith in God $9.99 “Join popular cultural and faith leaders in these five-session DVD studies that will challenge your innermost beliefs and preconceived ideas about life, faith, the world, and cultural responsibility.” |
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The Spirituality of Science: How Science Strengthens Faith in God [With DVD] $36.99 “Q Studies are a new, yet historical way to explore issues of faith and culture in the context of an action-oriented, group-learning environment. Based off of the Society Room movement of the late 1600’s in England-small gatherings of leaders would convene, dialogue, learn and work together to renew their culture. Q studies are based on this rich history and designed to challenge participant’s innermost beliefs and preconceived ideas about life, faith, the world and their cultural responsibility. These five-session DVD studies will guide your group to examine your beliefs, change your paradigm, and take action.” |
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How Old Is the Universe? $22.36 Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe? tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science an |
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Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society $5.99 We are on the cusp of a twenty-first-century scientific renaissance. Science is driving our culture and conversation unlike ever before, transforming the social, political, economic, aesthetic, and intellectual landscape of our time. Today, science is culture. As global issues — like energy and health — become increasingly interconnected, and as our curiosities — like how the mind works or why the universe is expanding — become more complex, we need a new way of looking at the world that blurs the lines between scientific disciplines and the borders between the sciences and the arts and humanities. In this spirit, the award-winning science magazine Seed has paired scientists with nonscientists to explore ideas of common interest to us all. This book is the result of these illuminating Seed Salon conversations, edited and with an introduction by Seed founder and editor in chief Adam Bly. |
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How to Build a Dinosaur : The New Science of Reverse Evolution $13.32 No Synopsis Available |
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel $12.45 No Synopsis Available |
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Reading in the Brain : The New Science of How We Read $11.71 No Synopsis Available |
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The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World $16.24 No Synopsis Available |
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How Baking Works : Exploring the Fundamentals of Baking Science $43 No Synopsis Available |
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Mindfield : How Brain Science Is Changing Our World $16.19 No Synopsis Available |
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Nonsense on Stilts : How to Tell Science from Bunk $66.88 No Synopsis Available |
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How to Rap : The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC $9.47 No Synopsis Available |
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Lives in Science : How Institutions Affect Academic Careers $52.55 No Synopsis Available |
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How Students Learn : History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom $36.88 No Synopsis Available |
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Why Us? : How Science Rediscoveerd the Mystery of Ourselves $13.32 No Synopsis Available |
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Writing in Science : How to Scaffold Instruction to Support Learning $29.86 No Synopsis Available |
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How Science Works: Evolution: A Student Primer $38.17 No Synopsis Available |
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How Far Should Science Extend the Human Lifespan? $22.78 No Synopsis Available |
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Oh No! : Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World $14.15 No Synopsis Available |
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How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom $6 No Synopsis Available |
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How Does Social Science Work?: Reflections on Practice $3 No Synopsis Available |
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Birds in Flight : The Art and Science of How Birds Fly $19.08 No Synopsis Available |
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!Y Tu Que Sabes!?: Descubriendo las Infinitas Posibilidades Para Modificar Nuestra Realidad Cotidiana $54.97 New – It’s hard to easily categorize WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? DISCOVERING THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES FOR ALTERING YOUR EVERYDAY REALITY: at once a science book and a self-help and spiritual guide, and based on a movie as well, it tackles the questions of uncertainty, the nature of reality, and how physical, mental and spiritual forces interact in shaping human reality. Don’t expect any easy answers here: WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW is an overview of science and spiritual questions which sets out |
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!Y Tu Que Sabes!?: Descubriendo las Infinitas Posibilidades Para Modificar Nuestra Realidad Cotidiana $39.03 New – It’s hard to easily categorize WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? DISCOVERING THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES FOR ALTERING YOUR EVERYDAY REALITY: at once a science book and a self-help and spiritual guide, and based on a movie as well, it tackles the questions of uncertainty, the nature of reality, and how physical, mental and spiritual forces interact in shaping human reality. Don’t expect any easy answers here: WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW is an overview of science and spiritual questions which sets out |
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!Y Tu Que Sabes!?: Descubriendo las Infinitas Posibilidades Para Modificar Nuestra Realidad Cotidiana $110.95 Used – It’s hard to easily categorize WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? DISCOVERING THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES FOR ALTERING YOUR EVERYDAY REALITY: at once a science book and a self-help and spiritual guide, and based on a movie as well, it tackles the questions of uncertainty, the nature of reality, and how physical, mental and spiritual forces interact in shaping human reality. Don’t expect any easy answers here: WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW is an overview of science and spiritual questions which sets out |
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BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR TEACHERS, Old Testament Bible Survey Course, Genesis — Esther $19.22 BACKGOUND MATERIAL FOR TEACHERS, Book One, surveys the first seventeen Old Testament books for Bible teachers of youth and adults. Teachers must build a firm foundation for studying/teaching the Old Testament by answering ten questions:What is the Old Testament? Who wrote the Old Testament? Where, When, Why and How was the Old Testament written? What are three major features of the Old Testament: Revelation, Inspiration and Preservation? How should we study the Word of God? Why should you memorize the Word of God? When should one read the Word of God?Teachers must also build a personal knowledge through surveying the Old Testament utilizing four areas of study: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL for the first two sections of the Old Testament; BACKGROUND INFORMATION about the author and book; “TEACHER’S STUDY GUIDE” for each of the 17 books; PRESENTATION MATERIAL for teachers [a teaching survey presented by a Scripture verse or passage].Following high school, a Bachelor of Science degree was received from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA plus a Georgia Teacher’s Professional Certificate. Then came the Army Security Agency and three years later came employment with the National Security Agency, Washington, DC. Meeting Edith Campen from North Carolina led to marriage, February 1, 1957.A year after marriage, God called me to the ministry. Graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX with a Bachelor of Divinity (updated to Masters of Divinity) and Masters in Religious Education (updated to Masters of Arts), God directed me to serve Him.For some 50 years, it was a pleasure to serve God and people in churches and classrooms as Minister of Youth, Minister of Education, Minister of Education/Administration, and Minister of Pastoral Care. It was a joy to teach this Old Testament Bible Survey Course to ninth grade students at Cypress Community Christian School, Houston, TX |
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Babylon 5 Season by Season: Point of No Return – Season 3 $0.96 Used – A guide to the third season of the television science-fiction saga, “Babylon 5″, with detailed plot summaries, accounts of the making of each episode, and discussion of how the series is produced within the confines of a television budget. Interviews with leading members of the cast are included. |
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Babylon 5 Season by Season: Point of No Return – Season 3 $0.65 Used – A guide to the third season of the television science-fiction saga, “Babylon 5″, with detailed plot summaries, accounts of the making of each episode, and discussion of how the series is produced within the confines of a television budget. Interviews with leading members of the cast are included. |
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Babylon 5 Season by Season: Point of No Return – Season 3 $2.79 Used – A guide to the third season of the television science-fiction saga, “Babylon 5″, with detailed plot summaries, accounts of the making of each episode, and discussion of how the series is produced within the confines of a television budget. Interviews with leading members of the cast are included. |
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Babylon 5 Season by Season: Point of No Return – Season 3 $11.49 Used – A guide to the third season of the television science-fiction saga, “Babylon 5″, with detailed plot summaries, accounts of the making of each episode, and discussion of how the series is produced within the confines of a television budget. Interviews with leading members of the cast are included. |
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Babylon 5 Season by Season: The Coming – Season 2 $14.9 New – A guide to the second season of the television science-fiction saga, “Babylon 5″, with detailed plot summaries, accounts of the making of each episode, and discussion of how the series is produced within the confines of a television budget. Interviews with leading members of the cast are included. |
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Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows Script Book $0.65 Used – The screenplay of “The Coming of Shadows”, a key episode in the television science-fiction series “Babylon 5″. The author explains how and why he wrote the series, and why he considers this to have been the best episode. Scenes cut from the final edit are included. |
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Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows Script Book $10.99 Used – The screenplay of “The Coming of Shadows”, a key episode in the television science-fiction series “Babylon 5″. The author explains how and why he wrote the series, and why he considers this to have been the best episode. Scenes cut from the final edit are included. |
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Complexity, Management and the Dynamics of Change $52.95 Introducing the principles of complexity science, this innovative text illustrates how different kinds of organizational can become more effective, democratic and sustainable by using these powerful ideas. |
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Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education $85 The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong. The focus is on the nature and functional value of conflicts and challenges to the dominant moral and social values framework. Through this analysis, individuals develop moral character through conflict with their local authority figures, including parents. The moral structure of societies evolves through intergenerational challenges to and contradictions with the dominant social order. The book is divided into three parts to help frame this discussion:Part I directly takes up the issue of resistance as it occurs at a cultural level, and the implications of such resistance for moral education and socialization.Part II explores the normative forms of adolescent resistance and contrarian behavior that vex parents and teachers alike.Part III brings back the issue of societal structure and culture to illustrate how negative features of society–such as racial discrimination and economic disparity–can feed into the construction of negative moral identity in youth posing challenges to moral education. Taken together, this collection presents a rich counterpoint to the pictures of moral growth as the progressive sophistication of moral reasoning or the gradual accretion of moral virtues and cultural values. It will benefit those in developmental, social, and cognitive psychology, as well as sociology, political science, and education. |
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How to Write What Book; For the Thousands of Writers in Science, Industry, Government, and Education Who Seek a Better Way to Present Information $1.99 Harry E. Chandler,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by A S M International |
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Journalism, Science and Society $138 Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the 21st century. The book takes three distinct perspectives on this interesting subject. Firstly, science journalists reflect on their “operating rules” (science news values and news making routines). Secondly, a brief history of science journalism puts things into context, characterizing the changing output of science writing in newspapers over time. Finally, the book invites several international journalists or communication scholars to comment on these observations thereby opening the global perspective. This unique project will interest a range of readers including science communication students, media studies scholars, professionals working in science communication and journalists. |
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Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion $42.5 Is religion a positive reality in your life? If not, have you lost anything by forfeiting this dimension of your humanity?This book compares the theology of Tillich with the psychology of Jung, arguing that they were both concerned with the recovery of a valid religious sense for contemporary culture. Paul Tillich, Carl Jung and the Recovery of Religion explores in detail the diminution of the human spirit through the loss of its contact with its native religious depths, a problem on which both spent much of their working lives and energies.Both Tillich and Jung work with a naturalism that grounds all religion on processes native to the human being. Tillich does this in his efforts to recover that point at which divinity and humanity coincide and from which they differentiate. Jung does this by identifying the archetypal unconscious as the source of all religions now working toward a religious sentiment of more universal sympathy. This book identifies the dependence of both on German mysticism as a common ancestry and concludes with a reflection on how their joint perspective might affect religious education and the relation of religion to science and technology.Throughout the book, John Dourley looks back to the roots of both men’s ideas about mediaeval theology and Christian mysticism making it ideal reading for analysts and academics in the fields of Jungian and religious studies. |
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Tomorrow’s World: Transport $2.28 Used – Focusing on travel, this is one of a series for children which is based on the BBC TV programme, “Tomorrow’s World”. Each title sets out to explain, in simple terms, a complex issue behind the world of science and technology, and to examine how changes are likely to affect our lives. |
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Tomorrow’s World: Transport $4.45 Used – Focusing on travel, this is one of a series for children which is based on the BBC TV programme, “Tomorrow’s World”. Each title sets out to explain, in simple terms, a complex issue behind the world of science and technology, and to examine how changes are likely to affect our lives. |
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#7 The Book Bandit: A Mystery with Geometry $6.5 New – The science club has created a big “book bandit” sculpture in the public library. But how did they get the sculpture in through the tiny library window? The librarians offer a prize to whoever can figure out the puzzle. The kids from Sifu Faiza’s Kung Fu School know they can win, but it will take all of their geometry skills plus some unexpected cooperation to size up… The Book Bandit. |
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#7 The Book Bandit: A Mystery with Geometry $6.5 Used – The science club has created a big “book bandit” sculpture in the public library. But how did they get the sculpture in through the tiny library window? The librarians offer a prize to whoever can figure out the puzzle. The kids from Sifu Faiza’s Kung Fu School know they can win, but it will take all of their geometry skills plus some unexpected cooperation to size up… The Book Bandit. |
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#7 The Book Bandit: A Mystery with Geometry $2.95 Used – The science club has created a big “book bandit” sculpture in the public library. But how did they get the sculpture in through the tiny library window? The librarians offer a prize to whoever can figure out the puzzle. The kids from Sifu Faiza’s Kung Fu School know they can win, but it will take all of their geometry skills plus some unexpected cooperation to size up… The Book Bandit. |
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#7 The Book Bandit: A Mystery with Geometry $2.95 New – The science club has created a big “book bandit” sculpture in the public library. But how did they get the sculpture in through the tiny library window? The librarians offer a prize to whoever can figure out the puzzle. The kids from Sifu Faiza’s Kung Fu School know they can win, but it will take all of their geometry skills plus some unexpected cooperation to size up… The Book Bandit. |
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”Bodies that tell”: Physiognomy, criminology, race and gender in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian literature and opera. $49.99 This dissertation explores the impact of Cesare Lombroso and the positivist school of criminal anthropology on Italian literature and opera in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.;The first chapter traces the rise of positivist science in late nineteenth-century Italy within the context of building Italian national consciousness. It explores Lombroso’s dominant role in Italian positivism, showing the methods that Lombroso used to successfully assert himself as the most important scientist and indeed intellectual of his era. The chapter ends with a discussion of why the theories promulgated by Lombroso and his school were particularly appealing to authors of literature and opera.;The second chapter analyzes criminal anthropology’s direct interventions into literary criticism, focusing on four positivist analyses of the poet Leopardi. It demonstrates that Lombroso and his disciples made a conscious effort to knock Leopardi off the pedestal upon which Francesco De Sanctis had ensconced him in favor of Giosue Carducci, a poet who better fit their mold of progressivism.;The four remaining chapters examine how specific authors and composers were impacted by Lombroso and criminal anthropology.;The third chapter analyzes the Lombrosian presence in Giovanni Verga’s short stories, focusing on manifestations of Lombroso’s criminal and prostitute in Verga’s Vita dei campi.;The fourth chapter instead examines the spiritualistic tales of Luigi Capuana, an author who entered into a friendly debate with Lombroso which lasted a quarter of a century regarding the nature of the spirit world. The fifth chapter is on two operas. The first, Verdi and Arrigo Boito’s Otello, is an opera in which the portrayal of the protagonist is distinctly informed by Lombroso’s racist ideology. The second, Mascagni and Daspuro’s L’amico Fritz, is similarly molded by Lombroso’s conflicted writings on Jews and gypsies.;The last chapter examines Grazia Deledda’s problematic relationship to |
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”Bodies that tell”: Physiognomy, criminology, race and gender in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian literature and opera. $49.99 This dissertation explores the impact of Cesare Lombroso and the positivist school of criminal anthropology on Italian literature and opera in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.;The first chapter traces the rise of positivist science in late nineteenth-century Italy within the context of building Italian national consciousness. It explores Lombroso’s dominant role in Italian positivism, showing the methods that Lombroso used to successfully assert himself as the most important scientist and indeed intellectual of his era. The chapter ends with a discussion of why the theories promulgated by Lombroso and his school were particularly appealing to authors of literature and opera.;The second chapter analyzes criminal anthropology’s direct interventions into literary criticism, focusing on four positivist analyses of the poet Leopardi. It demonstrates that Lombroso and his disciples made a conscious effort to knock Leopardi off the pedestal upon which Francesco De Sanctis had ensconced him in favor of Giosue Carducci, a poet who better fit their mold of progressivism.;The four remaining chapters examine how specific authors and composers were impacted by Lombroso and criminal anthropology.;The third chapter analyzes the Lombrosian presence in Giovanni Verga’s short stories, focusing on manifestations of Lombroso’s criminal and prostitute in Verga’s Vita dei campi.;The fourth chapter instead examines the spiritualistic tales of Luigi Capuana, an author who entered into a friendly debate with Lombroso which lasted a quarter of a century regarding the nature of the spirit world. The fifth chapter is on two operas. The first, Verdi and Arrigo Boito’s Otello, is an opera in which the portrayal of the protagonist is distinctly informed by Lombroso’s racist ideology. The second, Mascagni and Daspuro’s L’amico Fritz, is similarly molded by Lombroso’s conflicted writings on Jews and gypsies.;The last chapter examines Grazia Deledda’s problematic relationship to |
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”By any means necessary”: The American welfare state and machine politics in Newark’s North Ward. $49.99 Urban sociology has recently recognized the important function that local institutions serve in poor neighborhoods via their role as arbiters between community members and the outside world. These institutions provide crucial services, they serve as centers for social interaction, and they often dictate the range of resources that are available for a community. Local political organizations are no exception. Throughout American urban history, political organizations were critical in shaping the political and economic opportunities available to people living in poor communities, whether it was by working hard to incorporate waves of new immigrants, working behind the scenes to exclude other groups, or using their clout to levy goods and services for their constituents.;The same is true today, yet contemporary social science has paid little attention to how these organizations work, how and why they might differ from their historical predecessors, or what these differences might mean for how resources get distributed within and across poor communities. This work revives attention to the local political organization by focusing on a contemporary adaptation of one of America’s oldest political institutions—the machine organization. In particular, I examine the partnership of machine organizations with nonprofit community-based organizations (or “CBOs”) in an institutional arrangement that I call a “machine-CBO.”;I draw on data from an ethnographic case study of a machine-CBO in the North Ward of Newark, New Jersey to examine how local political organizations structure political and economic opportunities in poor communities and how, in turn, these organizations are structured by changes both within and beyond the community. I show, for instance, that by orchestrating electoral turnout and mobilizing a committed cadre of workers on its behalf, political organizations can decide democratic outcomes in their communities. By controlling patronage, they can determine who |
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”Chasing after monsters with a butterfly net:” The Victorian approach to vampires in Stoker’s ”Dracula”. $49.99 Written and set in the last years of the nineteenth century, Dracula wrestles with a loss of confidence in how the Victorian British deal with their problems. It challenges the certainty that domesticity, dedication, faith, and science will make right all wrongs. The novel’s protagonists bring all of the Victorians’ methods to bear against Count Dracula: science, weapons, medicine, rationality, temperance. However, even as they take his life, in many ways they fall short of resolving the problems he poses. They kill him by resorting to methods that abrogate the progress of the nineteenth century, and even in death, they know almost nothing about his kind, leaving him as a symbol of all their fears, of the dark unknown that lies just beyond the borders of the civilized world.;This thesis examines the challenges that Dracula poses to late nineteenth century British confidence in Victorian methods and values. I explain how Stoker uses scientific reasoning, documentation, travel, magic and the occult, and sexuality to confront Victorian norms and progress. I show how the novel raises a mirror up to the age, to show its reflection, or lack thereof. |
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”Chasing after monsters with a butterfly net:” The Victorian approach to vampires in Stoker’s ”Dracula”. $49.99 Written and set in the last years of the nineteenth century, Dracula wrestles with a loss of confidence in how the Victorian British deal with their problems. It challenges the certainty that domesticity, dedication, faith, and science will make right all wrongs. The novel’s protagonists bring all of the Victorians’ methods to bear against Count Dracula: science, weapons, medicine, rationality, temperance. However, even as they take his life, in many ways they fall short of resolving the problems he poses. They kill him by resorting to methods that abrogate the progress of the nineteenth century, and even in death, they know almost nothing about his kind, leaving him as a symbol of all their fears, of the dark unknown that lies just beyond the borders of the civilized world.;This thesis examines the challenges that Dracula poses to late nineteenth century British confidence in Victorian methods and values. I explain how Stoker uses scientific reasoning, documentation, travel, magic and the occult, and sexuality to confront Victorian norms and progress. I show how the novel raises a mirror up to the age, to show its reflection, or lack thereof. |
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”So there we were…” The stories told by Chief Petty Officers in the United States Navy, explored through a complexity lens. $49.99 Since the later part of the 20th century, there has been growing recognition that story telling might be of value as organizations grapple with challenges regarding how to communicate with people, both inside and outside of organizations, and manage change. While there is tacit recognition of the value of a skillfully told story in the Navy, a systematic study of story, or narrative, has never been done. It is the premise of this paper that there is a missed opportunity with respect to the study, and use, of story in organizations.;This was a qualitative study that applied both narrative theory and complexity science theory to an analysis of stories told by 34 Navy Chief Petty Officers. Two methods of data collection were used, semi-structured interviews and participant observations. Data were collected at two different locations, a leadership training academy and onboard a Navy ship at sea. One hundred and twenty nine stories, along with the discussions that accompanied them, were audio recorded and supplemented with observation memos. The data were analyzed by searching for reoccurring phrases, themes and patterns.;It was found that the participants, as individuals and as a group, functioned like complex adaptive entities, and that their narratives helped them to adapt to constantly changing environments. Seven primary themes—called dominant narratives in this study—emerged from the data. The dominant narratives, and their attendant schemas, indicated that a cycle of narrative meaning develops as people use stories to make sense of the past, cope with the present, and navigate into the future. This cycle of narrative meaning repeats itself as the present becomes the past, and the future becomes the present, with stories ebbing and flowing between sense making, defining reality and prescribing schemas for how to proceed into the future.;The conclusion of the study was that through increased awareness and understanding of narrative in organizations, leaders and |
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”So there we were…” The stories told by Chief Petty Officers in the United States Navy, explored through a complexity lens. $49.99 Since the later part of the 20th century, there has been growing recognition that story telling might be of value as organizations grapple with challenges regarding how to communicate with people, both inside and outside of organizations, and manage change. While there is tacit recognition of the value of a skillfully told story in the Navy, a systematic study of story, or narrative, has never been done. It is the premise of this paper that there is a missed opportunity with respect to the study, and use, of story in organizations.;This was a qualitative study that applied both narrative theory and complexity science theory to an analysis of stories told by 34 Navy Chief Petty Officers. Two methods of data collection were used, semi-structured interviews and participant observations. Data were collected at two different locations, a leadership training academy and onboard a Navy ship at sea. One hundred and twenty nine stories, along with the discussions that accompanied them, were audio recorded and supplemented with observation memos. The data were analyzed by searching for reoccurring phrases, themes and patterns.;It was found that the participants, as individuals and as a group, functioned like complex adaptive entities, and that their narratives helped them to adapt to constantly changing environments. Seven primary themes—called dominant narratives in this study—emerged from the data. The dominant narratives, and their attendant schemas, indicated that a cycle of narrative meaning develops as people use stories to make sense of the past, cope with the present, and navigate into the future. This cycle of narrative meaning repeats itself as the present becomes the past, and the future becomes the present, with stories ebbing and flowing between sense making, defining reality and prescribing schemas for how to proceed into the future.;The conclusion of the study was that through increased awareness and understanding of narrative in organizations, leaders and |
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”Such wondrous science”: Brain and metaphor in early modern English literature. $49.99 The idea of metaphor, as a figure of connection, transportation, and communication, suggests an approach to a central intellectual problem in early modern England: how do we reconcile the fact of the mind’s apparent intangibility with its very tangible control over the physical body? My dissertation argues that in the seventeenth century the burgeoning discipline of early modern neuroscience emerged by drawing on a field of metaphors shared by other intellectual domains, and, as importantly, that these metaphors were used in those other domains to describe the soul. At heart, the period was wrestling with the problem of how the immaterial soul could hold sway over the material body. While today we see this as a question of Cartesian duality, the quandary has an earlier origin: the pervasive efforts in the 1600s to bridge the divide between the body and the soul. By 1664, when Thomas Willis published his Cerebri anatomi—the first neuroanatomical text—the brain was broadly accepted as the locus of the rational soul. Yet how the brain came to be viewed as the organ in which the link between the material and the immaterial was forged depended, I argue, upon the scientific deployment of literary metaphors to describe that connection between soul and body. In its capacity for bridging the gap between spiritual substance and immaterial matter, metaphor renders the soul an object of empirical inquiry by tying it to the brain. |
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”Such wondrous science”: Brain and metaphor in early modern English literature. $49.99 The idea of metaphor, as a figure of connection, transportation, and communication, suggests an approach to a central intellectual problem in early modern England: how do we reconcile the fact of the mind’s apparent intangibility with its very tangible control over the physical body? My dissertation argues that in the seventeenth century the burgeoning discipline of early modern neuroscience emerged by drawing on a field of metaphors shared by other intellectual domains, and, as importantly, that these metaphors were used in those other domains to describe the soul. At heart, the period was wrestling with the problem of how the immaterial soul could hold sway over the material body. While today we see this as a question of Cartesian duality, the quandary has an earlier origin: the pervasive efforts in the 1600s to bridge the divide between the body and the soul. By 1664, when Thomas Willis published his Cerebri anatomi—the first neuroanatomical text—the brain was broadly accepted as the locus of the rational soul. Yet how the brain came to be viewed as the organ in which the link between the material and the immaterial was forged depended, I argue, upon the scientific deployment of literary metaphors to describe that connection between soul and body. In its capacity for bridging the gap between spiritual substance and immaterial matter, metaphor renders the soul an object of empirical inquiry by tying it to the brain. |
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”The Stars Belong to Everyone”: The rhetorical practices of astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993). $49.99 Astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (University of Toronto) reached a variety of audiences through different rhetorical forms. She communicated to her colleagues through her scholarly writings; she reached out to students and the public through her Toronto Star newspaper column entitled “With the Stars,” which she authored for thirty years; she wrote The Stars Belong to Everyone, a book that speaks to a lay audience; she hosted a successful television series entitled Ideas; and she delivered numerous speeches at scientific conferences, professional women’s associations, school programs, libraries, and other venues.;Adapting technical information for different audiences is at the heart of technical communication, and Sawyer Hogg’s work exemplifies adaptation as she moves from writing for the scientific community (as in her articles on globular cluster research) to science writing for lay audiences (as in her newspaper column, book, and script for her television series). Initially she developed her sense of audience through a male perspective informed largely by her scholarly work with two men (Harlow Shapley and her husband, Frank Hogg) as well as the pervasive masculine culture of academic science.;This dissertation situates Sawyer Hogg in what is slowly becoming a canon of technical communication scholarship on female scientists. Toward this end, I discuss how she rhetorically engaged two different audiences, one scholarly and one popular, how Sawyer Hogg translated male dominated scientific rhetoric to writing for the public, and how science writing helped her achieve her professional goals. Complementing the archival research in addressing the questions of this study, I employ social construction analysis (also known as the social perspective) for my research methodology. She was ahead of her time and embodied the social perspective years before its definition as a rhetorical concept. In short, my study illuminates one scientific woman’s voice, |
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”The Stars Belong to Everyone”: The rhetorical practices of astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993). $49.99 Astronomer and science writer Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg (University of Toronto) reached a variety of audiences through different rhetorical forms. She communicated to her colleagues through her scholarly writings; she reached out to students and the public through her Toronto Star newspaper column entitled “With the Stars,” which she authored for thirty years; she wrote The Stars Belong to Everyone, a book that speaks to a lay audience; she hosted a successful television series entitled Ideas; and she delivered numerous speeches at scientific conferences, professional women’s associations, school programs, libraries, and other venues.;Adapting technical information for different audiences is at the heart of technical communication, and Sawyer Hogg’s work exemplifies adaptation as she moves from writing for the scientific community (as in her articles on globular cluster research) to science writing for lay audiences (as in her newspaper column, book, and script for her television series). Initially she developed her sense of audience through a male perspective informed largely by her scholarly work with two men (Harlow Shapley and her husband, Frank Hogg) as well as the pervasive masculine culture of academic science.;This dissertation situates Sawyer Hogg in what is slowly becoming a canon of technical communication scholarship on female scientists. Toward this end, I discuss how she rhetorically engaged two different audiences, one scholarly and one popular, how Sawyer Hogg translated male dominated scientific rhetoric to writing for the public, and how science writing helped her achieve her professional goals. Complementing the archival research in addressing the questions of this study, I employ social construction analysis (also known as the social perspective) for my research methodology. She was ahead of her time and embodied the social perspective years before its definition as a rhetorical concept. In short, my study illuminates one scientific woman’s voice, |
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”The balance-sheet of nature”: Calculating the New York farm, 1820–1860. $49.99 To understand how nineteenth-century people understood the natural world, historians of science must investigate their interactions with the living systems that surrounded most of them—to examine, that is, their changing knowledge of their farms. This dissertation focuses on the period between 1820 and 1860, when the developing market economy drastically altered relations between Americans and their farms. With its rapidly shifting, highly productive agriculture and its location as a transport and communication hub, New York State became a major center of these agricultural changes. At the same time, New York’s vibrant agricultural societies and agricultural journals established a diverse community devoted to “agricultural improvement.” Bringing together a variety of discourses, practices, and people, improvement became a central knowledge-making institution of the antebellum period, one encompassing many forms of expertise: chemistry, geology, pomology, botany, meteorology, animal and vegetable physiology, mechanics, architecture, animal-judging, accounting, and mensuration. This dissertation analyzes the diaries and print productions of New York’s “improving” farmers and explores the ways that new market values changed how they understood and interacted with agricultural landscapes. By developing social standards for the reliable propagation of productive organisms like fruit trees, by identifying regions “adapted” to specific forms of production, and by rendering nutritional relationships on the farm as transactions using agricultural chemistry, they worked to turn their landscape into a rationalized site of production. In following improvers, the dissertation thus illuminates the spread of market-centered ways of accounting for nature, and works to integrate environmental history and the history of science. |
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”They imprison the whole population”: U.S. and South African prison literature and the emergence of symbiotic carcerality, 1900–present. $49.99 This dissertation is motivated by the following question: what spatial formation structures the living spaces poor Black people reside in and what effect does it have on their subjectivity? “They imprison the whole population” is a transnational comparative study of the “prisonization” of poor Black communities in the United States and South Africa from the dawn of the twentieth century to present. It seeks to understand the ways prisons affect society beyond focusing on rising incarceration rates. I argue that poor Blacks live under what I call symbiotic carcerality: prison techniques and spatial forms deployed across Black living space. I focus on how people are shaped by the carceral environment in which they live. To illustrate its impact, I examine how gender performance, physical health, body shape, aesthetics, diet, housing, mobility, and citizenship are formed and circumscribed by the symbiont circle between carceral space and the living space of poor Blacks.;I write at the convergence of what Black prison intellectual Assata Shakur called the “minimum security prison on the streets”, Michel Foucault’s notion of the “carceral”, and what human geographers McKittrick and Wood’s term “Black geographies”. Academic work in Black masculine studies (gender studies), critical prison studies, Marxism, Black cultural studies, and comparative studies of race and ethnicity has contributed much to my theoretical framework, and to the mix of humanities and social science methods I use. My research has uncovered a powerful yet submerged tradition in Black American and Black South African literature that meditates on the ubiquity of prison punishment in the lives of “free” people. Its primary source is the writings of Black prisoners. Through stories, memoirs, poetry, social commentary, and letters, they articulate the entrenchment of carceral punishment in poor Black communities. Black literary artists, activists, and scholars also contribute to theorizing carceral space. |
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”They imprison the whole population”: U.S. and South African prison literature and the emergence of symbiotic carcerality, 1900–present. $49.99 This dissertation is motivated by the following question: what spatial formation structures the living spaces poor Black people reside in and what effect does it have on their subjectivity? “They imprison the whole population” is a transnational comparative study of the “prisonization” of poor Black communities in the United States and South Africa from the dawn of the twentieth century to present. It seeks to understand the ways prisons affect society beyond focusing on rising incarceration rates. I argue that poor Blacks live under what I call symbiotic carcerality: prison techniques and spatial forms deployed across Black living space. I focus on how people are shaped by the carceral environment in which they live. To illustrate its impact, I examine how gender performance, physical health, body shape, aesthetics, diet, housing, mobility, and citizenship are formed and circumscribed by the symbiont circle between carceral space and the living space of poor Blacks.;I write at the convergence of what Black prison intellectual Assata Shakur called the “minimum security prison on the streets”, Michel Foucault’s notion of the “carceral”, and what human geographers McKittrick and Wood’s term “Black geographies”. Academic work in Black masculine studies (gender studies), critical prison studies, Marxism, Black cultural studies, and comparative studies of race and ethnicity has contributed much to my theoretical framework, and to the mix of humanities and social science methods I use. My research has uncovered a powerful yet submerged tradition in Black American and Black South African literature that meditates on the ubiquity of prison punishment in the lives of “free” people. Its primary source is the writings of Black prisoners. Through stories, memoirs, poetry, social commentary, and letters, they articulate the entrenchment of carceral punishment in poor Black communities. Black literary artists, activists, and scholars also contribute to theorizing carceral space. |
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‘Great Nations Still Enchained $143 Political cartoons are a valuable, though often neglected, source of historical information and understanding. In Great Nations Still Enchained, Roy Douglas uses these cartoons as a lens through which to examine the examine the political and social arenas of Europe, and the events which changes the landscape. Douglas includes cartoons from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Russia, the major powers of the day. These drawings illustrate how those people living in the midst of the events discussed perceived and interpreted them, acting as a barometer of public opinion, and reflecting their assumptions and ideas. As the cartoons are taken from various countries, they display how different, and often conflicting national attitudes developed. The period examined here, between 1878 and 1914, holds a particular significance in European history: 1878 marked the Congress of Berlin, which removed (or postponed) the very real risk of war between some of the Great Powers’, and was the last effective assertion of the Concert of Europe. After this time, the Powers drifted increasingly into smaller, limited alliances, which, among other factors, played a large part in the genesis of the First World War. Douglas has brought his gift for concise, clear explanation to this period, as has in his previous books Between the Wars 1919-1935 and The World War: 1939-1945. His work has brought currency and vitality to events which can often be lost in actual accounts. It should be of interest to any reader in European history and political science. |
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(Un)bounding DSM 300.3: A study of the everyday practice of managing obsessive compulsive disorder. $49.99 In this dissertation I explore how persons who identify with a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) fit it and its descriptions into the everyday practice of managing their suffering. I explore this topic through examination of research material derived from in-depth interviews, ethnographic fieldwork at the 2005 and 2006 Obsessive Compulsive Foundation conferences, observation of internet support communities, and extensive literature reviews of the professional, expert-produced research directed at laypersons and mental health and other professionals. Foregrounding the concepts of medicalization, Hacking's "making up people," subjectivity, and practice, and drawing upon a wide variety of social scientific literature, including texts in the sociology of mental health, medical sociology, and science and technology studies, I examine three contexts in which management is carried out: within the context of internet support communities, where expert and lay produced "classes" of OCD are negotiated, within the context of public and domestic spaces, and within the context of the ill-defined variety of OCD known as "hoarding." I find that although identifying with OCD and its descriptions represses certain possibilities—especially the use of professional forms of therapy that fall outside the expert recommendations—it simultaneously opens up new possibilities, such as providing sufferers access to certain forms of professional treatment, attractive explanations for their problems (notably shifting responsibility from the character to the body), and a means for organizing with like minded sufferers. Still, even though the diagnosis facilitates the production of new realities within the lives of sufferers, the experience of suffering is not uniform, nor is it static, but instead involves continuous negotiation of numerous relational variables, including biographical/demographic features, space, access to emotional and |
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(Un)bounding DSM 300.3: A study of the everyday practice of managing obsessive compulsive disorder. $49.99 In this dissertation I explore how persons who identify with a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) fit it and its descriptions into the everyday practice of managing their suffering. I explore this topic through examination of research material derived from in-depth interviews, ethnographic fieldwork at the 2005 and 2006 Obsessive Compulsive Foundation conferences, observation of internet support communities, and extensive literature reviews of the professional, expert-produced research directed at laypersons and mental health and other professionals. Foregrounding the concepts of medicalization, Hacking's "making up people," subjectivity, and practice, and drawing upon a wide variety of social scientific literature, including texts in the sociology of mental health, medical sociology, and science and technology studies, I examine three contexts in which management is carried out: within the context of internet support communities, where expert and lay produced "classes" of OCD are negotiated, within the context of public and domestic spaces, and within the context of the ill-defined variety of OCD known as "hoarding." I find that although identifying with OCD and its descriptions represses certain possibilities—especially the use of professional forms of therapy that fall outside the expert recommendations—it simultaneously opens up new possibilities, such as providing sufferers access to certain forms of professional treatment, attractive explanations for their problems (notably shifting responsibility from the character to the body), and a means for organizing with like minded sufferers. Still, even though the diagnosis facilitates the production of new realities within the lives of sufferers, the experience of suffering is not uniform, nor is it static, but instead involves continuous negotiation of numerous relational variables, including biographical/demographic features, space, access to emotional and |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $2.65 Used – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how thes |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $10.89 Used – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how thes |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $6.07 Used – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how thes |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $6.08 New – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how these |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $14.99 Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how these ten inventors shaped the course of human civilization. |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $2.66 New – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how these |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $10.89 New – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how these |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $6.07 New – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how these |
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10 Inventors Who Changed the World $6.08 Used – Science is not created in a vacuum, and no scientist creates an invention without influences from the past and an impact on the future. In this look at 10 discoverers, beginning with Archimedes of Greece and ending with Sergey Korolyev, each scientist’s biography is linked with another based on influences, events, and geography. By uncovering these unique and often overlooked connections, science history emerges as a chain of pattern and relationships, and readers will understand how thes |
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10 Steps to a Vibrant Lifestyle $5.99 Are you ready to take the steps to live a healthier life?The following ten categories of health will make a huge improvement in your life. You will not only feel better physically, but you will also have that positive mental health that is so vital to your spirit.You’ll feel healthier, younger and more energetic if you pay attention to your lifestyle in all 10 areas…•Add Exercise•Healthy Eating•Skin Care•Antioxidants•Alternative Medicines•Heart Health•Sleep Importance•Positive Attitudes•Balance Your Life•Manage StressOnce you start paying attention to these vital 10 areas, you’ll immediately discover they are… …The 10 Steps to a Vibrant Lifestyle!Here’s some of what you’ll discover inside:•The hidden benefits of exercise.•Not sure whether to go for a run or ride your bike? Here’s the best strategy for adding exercise to your life.•What exactly are Pilates and do they live up to the hype?•Simple tricks for making exercise a fun, daily part of your lifestyle.•How to build a fitness routine in small steps, so you don’t burn out.•4 forms of Chinese exercise that can be fun to add to your daily routine.•Simple strategies for preventing arthritis.•A quick breakdown on managing the 5 food groups in plain English.•The simple science of losing weight explained.•Stop fad dieting to finally lose weight and stay there.•How to reduce sugar in recipes by two thirds and still keep a sweet taste.•An easy way to reduce salt in recipes without losing flavor.•3 causes of wrinkles and how to prevent them.•methods for treating wrinkles without cortisone.•Why does your body need antioxidants and |
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100 Award-Winning Science Fair Projects $48.3 Science is at work everywhere–in the kitchen, up in the sky, down in the ground, and all around us in plants, animals, machines, even the mind. Here are 100 ways to show how it works and come out tops at your school fair, too. Stir up chemical magic and turn a copper pot green with oxidation; prove computers emit radio waves; and create virtual 3-D with a polarized lens. A reliable, useful purchase. — School Library Journal. Take a look at this one. It’s worth your time. – -Science Books &Film. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $1 Used – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $16.3 New – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $0.63 Used – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $10.99 Used – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $92.08 New – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $3.41 Used – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Best Weight-Loss Tips $4.11 New – 100 Best Weight-Loss Tips provides a dynamic course of action for those interested in losing weight quickly and safely. This book translates the science behind diet and nutrition and presents suggestions for a healthy lifestyle in language which is easy to understand. Dr. Stutman also illustrates how low-carbohydrate diets are extremely dangerous to your health and invariably lead to rebound weight gain once stopped. |
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100 Edible Mushrooms: With Tested Recipes $18 Used – With a dash of humor and a dollop of science, Michael Kuo selects the top 100 mushrooms best suited for cooking. Like Kuo’s very popular book “Morels,” “100 Edible Mushroom”s is written in the author’s inimitable, engaging, and appealing style, taking the reader on the hunt through forest and kitchen in search of mycological pleasures and culinary delights. Kuo describes in detail how to identify each species, where and when to find them, and how to cook them in creative and delicious rec |
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100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time $26.46 New – Discover the “who,” “what,” “when,” and “how” of 100 amazing inventions. |
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100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time $21.85 Discover the who, what, when, and how of 100 amazing inventions. |
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100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time $21.46 New – Discover the “who,” “what,” “when,” and “how” of 100 amazing inventions. |
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100 Science Experiments with Paper $44.27 New – Describes how to perform 100 experiments with paper and other materials easily found in the home, exploring such topics as air, chemistry, electricity, magnetism, heat, light, inertia, sound, and water. |
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100 Science Experiments with Paper $60.42 New – Describes how to perform 100 experiments with paper and other materials easily found in the home, exploring such topics as air, chemistry, electricity, magnetism, heat, light, inertia, sound, and water. |
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100 Simple Secrets of Happy People $11.99 Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of advice. Each of the hundred practices is illustrated with a clear example and illuminated by a straightforward explanation of the science behind it to show you how to transform a ho-hum existence into a full and happy life. Believe in yourself: Across all ages, and all groups, a solid belief in one’s own abilities increases life satisfaction by about 40 percent, and makes us happier both in our home lives and in our work lives. Turn off your TV: Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch. |
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100 Things to Do Before You Die (Plus a Few to Do Afterwards) $1.99 Used – Bored with the daily routine? Want to do something adventurous but don?t know where to start? ?100 Things To Do Before You Die? has the answers! It is a completely original compendium of intriguing, funny and somewhat bizarre ways to make your life richer and more fulfilling. The editors of ?New Scientist? ? one of the world?s leading science and technology magazines ? have picked what they would most like to do during their lifetime. You?ll learn how to: make ice cream using liquid nitro |
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100 Things to Do Before You Die (Plus a Few to Do Afterwards) $0.64 Used – Bored with the daily routine? Want to do something adventurous but don?t know where to start? ?100 Things To Do Before You Die? has the answers! It is a completely original compendium of intriguing, funny and somewhat bizarre ways to make your life richer and more fulfilling. The editors of ?New Scientist? ? one of the world?s leading science and technology magazines ? have picked what they would most like to do during their lifetime. You?ll learn how to: make ice cream using liquid nitro |
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1001 People Who Made America $19.95 Who are the pivotal figures in American history–the men and women who have helped shape who we are as a people and how we look at ourselves as Americans? In this companion to his popular 1001 Events That Made America, Alan Axelrod suggests we can answer this question only after we look with an open mind into all the areas of our collective past. 1001 People Who Made America does just that, highlighting the famous as well as the infamous, the virtuous as well as the notorious, from the nation’s earliest days to the present. Serving up history in lively, accessible bits, the book presents a who’s who of American politics, arts, science, business, religion, and pop culture, along with concise explanations of each figure’s historical significance. Featured personalities range from Jesse James to Al Capone, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Betty Friedan, George Washington to George W. Bush, Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King, Jr., Stephen Foster to Elvis, John L. Sullivan to Muhammad Ali, Edwin Booth to Marlon Brando, Washington Irving to Thomas Pynchon, Jacob Aster to Bill Gates. Axelrod’s writing is packed with information and insight, giving readers a deeper understanding of what it means to be an American. The appealing design and easy-to-read format invite browsing and make this book a great gift for history buffs and all thoughtful Americans. |
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101 Healthiest Foods $14.95 Everyone knows that it’’s important to eat right. But with so many choices, who has the time to figure it all out? 101 Healthiest Foods takes the hard work out of making smart food choices. With its one- to five-star rankings and quick reference lists, this book is the ultimate tool for finding and enjoying the incredibly nutritious foods that allow one to live longer, be healthier, and feel happier every day. An empowering health book, 101 Healthiest Foods identifies the best of the best across all food groups, including the healthiest fruits, vegetables, carbs, proteins, fats, drinks, and even treats. The authors break down each of the 300 foods and provide the science behind the rankings so readers can fully understand why some foods are better than others. In the end, readers will see how easy it is to create a healthy diet that maximizes the goals of achieving and maintaining great health. |
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101 Questions About Muscles $30.6 How much of a person’s body weight is made up of muscle? Can you learn to control your heart rate using your mind? How does taking steroids affect muscles?and why are steroids dangerous? What causes hiccups? The answers to these puzzling questions?and 97 more?are revealed in this thought-provoking book about muscles. From basic information on how muscles work to more complex issues such as how diseases and injuries affect muscles, science expert Faith Hickman Brynie provides authoritative information about the human muscular system. |
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101 Science Tricks: On the Move $10.99 Used – Describes how to carry out simple experiments to find out how things work. Designed for practical learning about science and maths, the experiments can be carried out with minimum adult supervision and no special equipment; also available in a bumper edition of three similar works. |
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101 Science Tricks: On the Move $0.63 Used – Describes how to carry out simple experiments to find out how things work. Designed for practical learning about science and maths, the experiments can be carried out with minimum adult supervision and no special equipment; also available in a bumper edition of three similar works. |
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101 Things Everyone Should Know About Economics $13.95 What you don?t know about economics can hurt you?now more than ever. This easy-to-understand guide answers all the questions you need to know to secure your financial future, such as: What does it mean to my paycheck when the Fed lowers or raises interest rates?What’’s the difference between bonds, securities, and derivatives?and which should I invest in now? What does Keynesian economics have to do with my savings?For those people whose heads spin when reading the business pages of the newspaper, here’’s a roadmap through the economic jungle. In simple, plain language, Peter Sander explains how economies work, why they grow, how they contract, and what the government can and can?t do to help them. Most important, he tells you how all this affects you ?and what kind of changes you?re going to see in your finances as a result.Economics has been called the ?dismal? science. But it doesn?t need to be gloomy or impenetrable. This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to understand where the economy is today, where it’’s going, and what it means for the rest of us. |
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101 Things Everyone Should Know about Science $8.42 New – Perfect for kids, parents, grown-ups, and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how science impacts everyday life. |
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101 Things Everyone Should Know about Science $5.9 New – Perfect for kids, parents, grown-ups, and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how science impacts everyday life. |
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101 science tricks. $5.85 Used – A bumper edition (encapsulating the material of three books) describing how to carry out simple experiments to find out how things work. Designed for practical learning about science and maths, the experiments can be carried out with minimum adult supervision and no special equipment. |
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101 science tricks. $1.83 Used – A bumper edition (encapsulating the material of three books) describing how to carry out simple experiments to find out how things work. Designed for practical learning about science and maths, the experiments can be carried out with minimum adult supervision and no special equipment. |
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11 Experiments That Failed $19.99 Is it possible to eat snowballs doused in ketchup–and nothing else–all winter? Can a washing machine wash dishes? By reading the step-by-step instructions, kids can discover the answers to such all-important questions along with the book’’s curious narrator. Here are 12 hypotheses, as well as lists of what you need, what to do, and what happened that are sure to make young readers laugh out loud as they learn how to conduct science experiments (really!). Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter–the ingenious pair that brought you 17 Things I”m Not Allowed to Do Anymore –have outdone themselves in this brilliant and outrageously funny book. From the Hardcover edition. |
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112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science $0.99 As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends-all titans of contemporary science and philosophy-to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best, science and philosophy, and perhaps to ponder their vision of the postwar world. His guests were the legendary philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell; the boy wonder of quantum physics Wolfgang Pauli; and the brilliant logician Kurt Gödel, whose “incompleteness” theorems a decade before had shattered the link between logic and mathematics. Their casual meetings took place far from the horrific battlefields of the war and the (then) secret lair of experimental atomic physicists, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Just how many times they met and precisely what they discussed remains a matter of conjecture. All four men were well along in years by scientific standards-where youth tends to dominate with major breakthroughs-and they had to be aware of what Feldman terms “the pathos of science,” that their own work would one day be superseded. As they met, they and their scientific brethren were awakening to the dire consequences of atomic power-as well as the fact that henceforth science and politics were inextricably intertwined. It was, as Feldman notes, the end of innocence in science.Taking these historic meetings as his starting point, Feldman sketches the lives and contributions of the four friends, colleagues, and rivals-especially Einstein, innately self-confident but frustrated in his attempt to come up with a unified theory, and the aristocratic but self-doubting Lord Russell. In a final section, Feldman also discusses the roles of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his German counterpart, Werner Heisenberg. Though neither was present at any of these meetings, they both cast long shadows over 112 Mercer Street during that cold winter of 1943-44. |
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123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius $24.95 123 ROBOT EXPERIMENTS! 123 STEPS NEEDED TO BRING OUT THE GENIUS IN EVERY BASEMENT HOBBYIST!If you enjoy tinkering in your workshop and have a fascination for robotics, you’ll have hours of fun working through the 123 experiments found in this innovative project book. More than just an enjoyable way to spend time, these exciting experiments also provide a solid grounding in robotics, electronics, and programming. Each experiment builds on the skills acquired in those before it so you develop a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts understanding of robotics — from the ground up. 123 Robotics Projects for the Evil Genius — * Introduces you to robotics, electronics, and programming for robotics step-by-step — you don’t need to be a science whiz to get started, but you will be when you have finished * Vividly explains the science behind robots and the technologies needed to build them, including: Electronics; Mechanical assembly; Motors and batteries; Programming and microcontrollers * Shows how you can create simple robots and models using materials found around the house and workroom * Requires only inexpensive, easily obtained parts and tools * Provides a PCB (printed circuit board) that will make it easy to create the circuits used in this book as well as your own experiments * Gives you directions for building a maze-solving robot, two different designs for a light-seeking robot, an artificial intelligence program that will respond to you, and much more * Explains underlying principles and suggests other applications * Supplies parts lists and program listings IMAGINATIVE EXPERIMENTS THAT TEACH THE BASICS — WHILE PROVIDING HOURS OF FUN! |
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13 Dreams Freud Never Had: A New Mind Science $5.25 Praise for 13 Dreams Freud Never Had As 13 Dreams demonstrates, J. Allan Hobson is gifted with both an intimate, first-hand knowledge of the brain s workings and a powerful literary imagination, qualities that make him one of the finest living practitioners and explicators of modern neuroscience. –John Horgan, author of The End of Science, The Undiscovered Mind, and Rational Mysticism Allan Hobson has written a remarkable first-a kind of autobiography literally woven out of dreams. From the giant lobster brain to disembodied kisses, from neural labyrinths to opaline Harvard stairways, he makes you turn page after page in anticipation of what he will dream up next, and what he will reveal about his life. In the process, you will partake of a great scientist s journey of self-discovery. And you will learn, pace Freud, what dreams really have to say about us. A unique and gripping book, extraordinarily honest and human. –Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination Allan Hobson has been a distinguished pioneer in the physiological investigation of dreaming. But the meaning of a dream, as he knows, is not the same thing as its function for the brain. In this lively, candid, refreshingly autobiographical book, Hobson shows that dreams possess emotional and ideational content of a straightforward, transparent kind. With 13 Dreams Freud Never Had, dream interpretation is wrested from the deep-theoretical experts and handed back to the only qualified authority-the dreamer him or herself. –Frederick Crews, principal author of The Memory Wars: Freud s Legacy inDispute What if Freud were still alive today and could rely on current neuroscience to construct a theory of dreams in lieu of his stillborn 1895 Project? Hobson tells us intriguingly why, nowadays, Freud would discard the disguise–censorship model along with his erstwhile wish–monopoly of |
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time $66.51 Used – Based on Brooks’ popular article for “New Scientist,” this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century. |
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time $3.97 Used – Based on Brooks’ popular article for “New Scientist,” this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century. |
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time $5.55 Used – Based on Brooks’ popular article for “New Scientist,” this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century. |
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time $8.81 New – Based on Brooks’ popular article for “New Scientist,” this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century. |
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time $94.95 Used – Based on Brooks’ popular article for “New Scientist,” this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century. |
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13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time $7.33 New – Based on Brooks’ popular article for “New Scientist,” this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century. |
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13+ : pathways to success $10.99 Used – As a guide to charting the future this book answers the questions to how many GCSEs are needed to be an environmentalist? Must one pass maths to train as a nursery teacher? Why is science important for photographers? Which subjects can be dropped at 13 and picked up again for A-level? At 13 a student can choose what to study for half the working week. But when GCSE/SCE subjects are picked, the student also makes decisions that will influence what they do in two, five even ten year’s time. |
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13+ : pathways to success $0.64 Used – As a guide to charting the future this book answers the questions to how many GCSEs are needed to be an environmentalist? Must one pass maths to train as a nursery teacher? Why is science important for photographers? Which subjects can be dropped at 13 and picked up again for A-level? At 13 a student can choose what to study for half the working week. But when GCSE/SCE subjects are picked, the student also makes decisions that will influence what they do in two, five even ten year’s time. |
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150 Great Science Experiments $6.59 Used – This is a bumper collection of simple experiments and projects that explain a wide range of scientific facts and principles, and how technical things work. The instructions and step-by-step photographs are easy to follow, the materials used are inexpensive and easy to find, making the projects easy to do at home or in the classroom. All the experiments have and important scientific learning point, but they are fun to do and make science delightfully accessible. The projects are arranged t |
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150 Great Science Experiments $33.65 Used – This is a bumper collection of simple experiments and projects that explain a wide range of scientific facts and principles, and how technical things work. The instructions and step-by-step photographs are easy to follow, the materials used are inexpensive and easy to find, making the projects easy to do at home or in the classroom. All the experiments have and important scientific learning point, but they are fun to do and make science delightfully accessible. The projects are arranged t |
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150 Great Science Experiments $3.02 Used – This is a bumper collection of simple experiments and projects that explain a wide range of scientific facts and principles, and how technical things work. The instructions and step-by-step photographs are easy to follow, the materials used are inexpensive and easy to find, making the projects easy to do at home or in the classroom. All the experiments have and important scientific learning point, but they are fun to do and make science delightfully accessible. The projects are arranged t |
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150 Great Science Experiments $26.55 Used – This is a bumper collection of simple experiments and projects that explain a wide range of scientific facts and principles, and how technical things work. The instructions and step-by-step photographs are easy to follow, the materials used are inexpensive and easy to find, making the projects easy to do at home or in the classroom. All the experiments have and important scientific learning point, but they are fun to do and make science delightfully accessible. The projects are arranged t |
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1539 Establishments: The Crypt School, Gloucester $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Crypt School, Gloucester – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Crypt School has been awarded an ‘Artsmark’ Award by the Arts Council of England for the quality of provision in creative and performing arts (i.e. music, drama and art itself). In 2003, the school was granted Specialist Status in Science. It remains the only school in Gloucester with this distinction. This award was, in part, awarded in recognition of the quality of science provision at the school – it remains one of a very select group of schools which teaches all of the sciences in depth as separate subjects. In 2009, The Crypt School was further designated as a Specialist Language College, this status will become active as of the 2009/2010 academic year. At the end of every academic year, usually on the second Thursday of July, pupils, staff and former Cryptians gather at Gloucester Cathedral for Founders Day, a day when the school remembers its past and how the school was founded. The Headmaster of the school pays the Rector of St Mary De Crypt Church a quit rent of one red rose. There are four school houses; Whitefield, Moore, Brown and Henley, named after notable former students. In the 1950s and 1960s,the Crypt gained a reputation for the quality of its Shakespearean productions. The plays were directed by Charles Lepper, English teacher at the Crypt, and former RSC actor. Lepper’s last production at the Crypt was “Much Ado About Nothing” in 1966. Pio cantu celebremusScholam, pie memoremusConditores, quis debemusTot Musarum munera.Laus Ioanni tribuenda,Laus Ioannae concinenda.Vivat schola Cryptiensis,Vivat in perpetuum! Stat per annos domus crescensFortiorque fit senescens,Laeta prole revirescensDum labuntur saecula.Viget prisca fide plena,Viget nova spe serena.Vivat… More: |
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1600 Perfect Score: The 7 Secrets of Acing the SAT $10.99 Drawing on the first study of 1600 scorers conducted with the full cooperation of the College Board, here are the 7 secrets to success on the SAT — and in life. Every year roughly 2.3 million high school students take the SAT; of those, however, only 650 students on average achieve a perfect score of 1600. Such a statistic raises obvious questions: Who are these kids? What are they like? And how do they do it? In a new landmark study, educator and executive recruiter Tom Fischgrund became the first researcher ever granted comprehensive access to these high academic achievers by the College Board, the body that administers the SAT. Weaving together in-depth interviews with perfect-score students, insights from their parents, and exclusive College Board data, in 1600 Perfect Score he reveals the 7 secrets that separate the cream from the crop. Among the Revelations Attending small private schools (or any school with classes) doesn’t always make a big difference … but having strong family support does Paying for expensive classes or tutors doesn’t always make a big difference … but taking lots of practice tests at home does Having a strongly motivating teacher doesn’t always make a big difference … but having an independent passion for learning definitely does Packed with intriguing case studies and practical advice — and tips from the 1600 scorers themselves — this essential book brings hard data and a new, more human perspective to one of the greatest challenges parents everywhere face: how to make sure their children have the best chance to thrive in high school, college, andbeyond.About the AuthorTom Fischgrund is the author of The Insider’s Guide to the Top Ten Business Schools and Barron’s Top 50: An Inside Look at America’s Best Colleges. A Ph.D. in political science from MIT and an MBA from Harvard, he has directed the |
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1600 Perfect Score: The 7 Secrets of Acing the SAT $0.99 Drawing on the first study of 1600 scorers conducted with the full cooperation of the College Board, here are the 7 secrets to success on the SAT — and in life. Every year roughly 2.3 million high school students take the SAT; of those, however, only 650 students on average achieve a perfect score of 1600. Such a statistic raises obvious questions: Who are these kids? What are they like? And how do they do it? In a new landmark study, educator and executive recruiter Tom Fischgrund became the first researcher ever granted comprehensive access to these high academic achievers by the College Board, the body that administers the SAT. Weaving together in-depth interviews with perfect-score students, insights from their parents, and exclusive College Board data, in 1600 Perfect Score he reveals the 7 secrets that separate the cream from the crop. Among the Revelations Attending small private schools (or any school with classes) doesn’t always make a big difference … but having strong family support does Paying for expensive classes or tutors doesn’t always make a big difference … but taking lots of practice tests at home does Having a strongly motivating teacher doesn’t always make a big difference … but having an independent passion for learning definitely does Packed with intriguing case studies and practical advice — and tips from the 1600 scorers themselves — this essential book brings hard data and a new, more human perspective to one of the greatest challenges parents everywhere face: how to make sure their children have the best chance to thrive in high school, college, andbeyond.About the AuthorTom Fischgrund is the author of The Insider’s Guide to the Top Ten Business Schools and Barron’s Top 50: An Inside Look at America’s Best Colleges. A Ph.D. in political science from MIT and an MBA from Harvard, he has directed the |
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1789: The Long and the Short of It $118.74 Twelve essays by as many scholars reconsider the French Revolution in the long term and the short term, examining both the immediate events of 1789 and their long shadow over other countries and times, including our own. Some chapters focus on the Paris experience, others give a glimpse of the Revolution in the provinces or beyond the borders of France itself. To determine what it achieved, what it meant, and what it continues to mean, the scope of the study must include history and art, science and literature, Switzerland, England, Germany, Russia, Napoleon’s Europe and Mitterand’s. These essays originated as public lectures in the University of Sheffield, and retain much of their original liveliness and broad appeal. From a variety of vantage points they view a crucial moment in post-Renaissance history, and gauge how the light of that moment shines in our own time. |
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1810s Novels (Study Guide): 1810 Novels, 1811 Novels, 1812 Novels, 1813 Novels, 1814 Novels, 1815 Novels, 1816 Novels, 1817 Novels, 1818 Novels $29.13 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1810 Novels, 1811 Novels, 1812 Novels, 1813 Novels, 1814 Novels, 1815 Novels, 1816 Novels, 1817 Novels, 1818 Novels, 1819 Novels, Pride and Prejudice, Ivanhoe, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma, the Absentee, Waverley, Frankenstein, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, the Wanderer, Zastrozzi, Mathilda, Guy Mannering, the Antiquary, the Swiss Family Robinson, the Mangy Parrot, Sanditon, the Black Dwarf, the Manuscript Found in Saragossa, St. Irvyne, Kelroy, Undine, Rob Roy, Adolphe, the Devil’s Elixir, the Bride of Lammermoor, the Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, Patronage, a Legend of Montrose, Histoire Secrete D’isabelle de Baviere, Reine de France, Headlong Hall, Harrington, Ormond, Melincourt. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 19. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley’s name appears on the second edition, published in France. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended incorrectly to refer to the monster as “Frankenstein”. Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. It was also a warning against the expansion of modern man in the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel’s subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of |
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1900 House $90.01 New – This title accompanies Channel 4’s programme that reveals just how radically life has been transformed by a century of science and technology. This “living experiment” transports a family, with all their technological dependencies, back to 1900 to live for three months in a house restored to the exact specifications of the era. As the family struggle to adjust to these strange conditions in which electricity, plumbing, central heating, basic hygiene and all the other essentials that we now |