How to Be an Alien

How to Be an Alien
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Publisher : Longman
Total Pages : 42
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ISBN-10 : 1405827386
ISBN-13 : 9781405827386
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How to Be an Alien by : George Mikes

Download or read book How to Be an Alien written by George Mikes and published by Longman. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Penguin Readers' are simplified texts designed in association with Longman to provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure.

Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods

Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9783527642090
ISBN-13 : 3527642099
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods by : Franz Roters

Download or read book Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods written by Franz Roters and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the leading experts in computational materials science, this handy reference concisely reviews the most important aspects of plasticity modeling: constitutive laws, phase transformations, texture methods, continuum approaches and damage mechanisms. As a result, it provides the knowledge needed to avoid failures in critical systems udner mechanical load. With its various application examples to micro- and macrostructure mechanics, this is an invaluable resource for mechanical engineers as well as for researchers wanting to improve on this method and extend its outreach.

An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780345805881
ISBN-13 : 0345805887
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis An Anthropologist on Mars by : Oliver Sacks

Download or read book An Anthropologist on Mars written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.

Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Steps to an Ecology of Mind
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 572
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ISBN-10 : 0226039056
ISBN-13 : 9780226039053
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Steps to an Ecology of Mind by : Gregory Bateson

Download or read book Steps to an Ecology of Mind written by Gregory Bateson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.

Multimedia

Multimedia
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Publisher : Osborne Publishing
Total Pages : 636
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ISBN-10 : 0078822254
ISBN-13 : 9780078822254
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Multimedia by : Tay Vaughan

Download or read book Multimedia written by Tay Vaughan and published by Osborne Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated for newnbsp;breakthroughs in multimedia nbsp; The internationally bestselling Multimedia: Making it Work has been fully revised and expanded to cover the latest technological advances in multimedia. You will learn to plan and manage multimedia projects, from dynamic CD-ROMs and DVDs to professional websites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects. nbsp;

How to Read a Paper

How to Read a Paper
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781118801130
ISBN-13 : 111880113X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How to Read a Paper by : Trisha Greenhalgh

Download or read book How to Read a Paper written by Trisha Greenhalgh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling introduction to evidence-based medicine In a clear and engaging style, How to Read a Paper demystifies evidence-based medicine and explains how to critically appraise published research and also put the findings into practice. An ideal introduction to evidence-based medicine, How to Read a Paper explains what to look for in different types of papers and how best to evaluate the literature and then implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centred way. Helpful checklist summaries of the key points in each chapter provide a useful framework for applying the principles of evidence-based medicine in everyday practice. This fifth edition has been fully updated with new examples and references to reflect recent developments and current practice. It also includes two new chapters on applying evidence-based medicine with patients and on the common criticisms of evidence-based medicine and responses. How to Read a Paper is a standard text for medical and nursing schools as well as a friendly guide for everyone wanting to teach or learn the basics of evidence-based medicine.

Dynamics in Action

Dynamics in Action
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 0262600471
ISBN-13 : 9780262600477
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dynamics in Action by : Alicia Juarrero

Download or read book Dynamics in Action written by Alicia Juarrero and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral and legal consequences rest on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary behavior. However, "action theory"—the branch of philosophy that has traditionally articulated the boundaries between action and non-action, and between voluntary and involuntary behavior—has been unable to account for the difference. Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation—one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike—underlies contemporary theories of action. Juarrero then proposes a new framework for conceptualizing causes based on complex adaptive systems. Thinking of causes as dynamical constraints makes bottom-up and top-down causal relations, including those involving intentional causes, suddenly tractable. A different logic for explaining actions—as historical narrative, not inference—follows if one adopts this novel approach to long-standing questions of action and responsibility.