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by Tomas B. Co
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013

Based on course notes from over twenty years of teaching engineering and physical sciences at Michigan Technological University, Tomas Co's engineering mathematics textbook is rich with examples, applications and exercises. Professor Co uses analytical approaches to solve smaller problems to provide...
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Heinrich Glarean's Books

The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist

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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013

This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a...
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by John Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1970

In his preface Mr Wilson writes 'I feel that a great many adults … would do better to spend less time in simply accepting the concepts of others uncritically, and more time in learning how to analyse concepts in general'. Mr Wilson starts by describing the techniques of conceptual analysis. He then...
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Success in Professional Experience

Building Relationships

by Michael Dyson, Margaret Plunkett, Kerryn McCluskey
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

Success in Professional Experience has been specifically designed to assist pre-service teachers on their journey to become successful learners and teachers during the practicum component of their degree. The authors present ideas on how to develop fundamental knowledge, skills and competencies, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013

Beauty challenges conventional approaches to the subject through an interdisciplinary approach that forges connections between the arts, sciences and mathematics. Classical, conventional aspects of beauty are addressed in subtle, unexpected ways: symmetry in mathematics, attraction in the animal world...
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Reclaiming Patriotism

Nation-Building for Australian Progressives

by Tim Soutphommasane
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009

Affronted by the xenophobic nationalists who stalked the land during the Howard years, many progressive Australians have rejected a love of country, forgetting that there is a patriotism of the liberal left that at different times has advanced liberty, egalitarianism, and democratic citizenship. Tim...
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Dissenting Voices in American Society

The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012

Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It brings together under the lens of critical examination dissenting voices that are usually...
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The Signs of a Savant

Language Against the Odds

by Neil Smith, Ianthi Tsimpli, Gary Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010

Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a linguistic...
Cover of Assessment for Teaching
by Patrick Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

Grounded in contemporary, evidence-based research, the second edition of Assessment for Teaching provides a comprehensive introduction to assessment and teaching in primary and secondary school settings. Taking a practical approach to assessment and the collaborative use of data in the classroom,...
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An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900

Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary

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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century...
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Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society

Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities

by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011

Merciful Judgments and Contemporary Society: Legal Problems, Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them. Rather than focusing primarily on definitional questions or the longstanding debate about...
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Theoretical Concepts in Physics

An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics

by Malcolm S. Longair
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003

A highly original, and truly novel, approach to theoretical reasoning in physics. This book illuminates the subject from the perspective of real physics as practised by research scientists. It is intended to be a supplement to the final years of an undergraduate course in physics and assumes that...
Cover of Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa
by Isak Niehaus
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012

Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age in rural South Africa during apartheid, then studied at university and worked as a teacher during the anti-apartheid struggle. In 2005, Jimmy died from...
Cover of A Basic Course in Measure and Probability
by Ross Leadbetter, Stamatis Cambanis, Vladas Pipiras
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

Originating from the authors' own graduate course at the University of North Carolina, this material has been thoroughly tried and tested over many years, making the book perfect for a two-term course or for self-study. It provides a concise introduction that covers all of the measure theory and probability...
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