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* Offers strategies for individuals and relationships of diverse
ethno-racial cultural backgrounds. * Provides innovative tools
which consider the impacts of acculturation, minority status,
intersectionality and minority stress on sexual health and
dysfunction. * Helps clinicians to broaden their awareness and
build their professional capacity. * Chapters include key terms,
critical questions for the reader, case studies, and suggested
further reading. * It is the very first of its kind and will be a
significant contribution to sex therapy, marriage and family
therapy, and couples counselling.
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility
crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically,
science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by
scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging
conspiracy theories are rife because of the internet that science
created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and
statistical significance leads to data torturing and confirmation
bias, and data mining is fuelled by the technological advances in
Big Data and the development of ever-increasingly powerful
computers. Using a wide range of entertaining examples, this
fascinating book examines the impacts of society's growing distrust
of science, and ultimately provides constructive suggestions for
restoring the credibility of the scientific community.
* Offers strategies for individuals and relationships of diverse
ethno-racial cultural backgrounds. * Provides innovative tools
which consider the impacts of acculturation, minority status,
intersectionality and minority stress on sexual health and
dysfunction. * Helps clinicians to broaden their awareness and
build their professional capacity. * Chapters include key terms,
critical questions for the reader, case studies, and suggested
further reading. * It is the very first of its kind and will be a
significant contribution to sex therapy, marriage and family
therapy, and couples counselling.
A book that will take you through the best Scottish winter journeys
from the comfort of your favourite chair. There'll be detailed
descriptions, accompanied by some fine photographs, of all the
well-known winter classics such as the traverse of An Teallach,
Ledge Route on the Ben Nevis, the Aonach Eagach Ridge and the Black
Spout on Lochnagar. Some of the not so well-known schizzles
included are Morrisons Gully on Beinn Eighe, Academy Ridge on Sgorr
Ruadh, Summit Gully on Stob Coire nam Beith and the magnificent
Deep South Gully on Beinn Alligin.
Developed specifically for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence,
Text for Scotland is written by a dedicated team of authors who
have extensive experience of teaching in Scotland. Text for
Scotland is a complete, unit-based resource for S1 and S2 that
builds essential language skills, with a focus throughout on
Assessment is for Learning strategies. Text for Scotland is closely
matched to the epxeriences and outcomes of the Scottish Curriculum
for Excellence 2008 so you don't need to spend time adapting
resources. * clear outcomes and experiences stated at the start of
each unit to show students what they will be learning. * up-to-date
examples to help students identify with the material and engage
them in the classroom. * activities which focus on acquiring key
language skills. * self- and peer-evaluation activities, which
embed Assessment is for Learning practice. * a clear and colourful
design so your students engage with the material.
A guide for students and pastors to interpret and communicate the
messages of the prophetic books well Preaching from a prophetic
text can be daunting because it can be difficult to place these
prophecies in their proper historical setting. The prophets used
different literary genres and they often wrote using metaphorical
poetry that is unfamiliar to the modern reader. This handbook
offers an organized method of approaching a prophecy and preparing
a persuasive, biblically based sermon that will draw modern
application from the theological principle embedded in the
prophetic text.
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid
economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter
Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic
and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of
the "Selected Writings" is now available in paperback in two
parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest
literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well
as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his
wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays,
"Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the
extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and
extended discussions of the history of photography and the social
situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter
pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological
criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on
such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and
Mickey Mouse.
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid
economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter
Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic
and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of
the "Selected Writings" is now available in paperback in two
parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest
literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well
as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his
wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays,
"Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the
extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and
extended discussions of the history of photography and the social
situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter
pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological
criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on
such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and
Mickey Mouse.
G.B. Smith’s book, PATHWAYS takes the viewer through a journey of
each image, using light to illuminate patterns and distilling the
subject down to its uncluttered form. This innovative approach
transcends a wide range of subjects and genres and reflects his
traditional photographic heritage of plate cameras and exclusively
black-and-white imagery. The joy of his imagery is in fact deeply
embedded in his ability to present the canvas in its essential
form. His images bring solace to our psyche constantly overwhelmed
by the overstimulation of color, and they encourage us to
appreciate the essence of the subject in a new and releasing way.
Out of less comes more in this gorgeously produced volume. PATHWAYS
is also a metaphor for the photographer’s personal artistic
journey that began almost fifty years ago as a teenager and has
taken a somewhat circuitous route, coming back full circle to
embrace his original photographic passions. The book features
selected works from several of G.B. Smith’s current collections,
including many of his more recent award-winning images. All of the
author’s proceeds are being donated to The Breast Cancer Alliance
charity.
Core Cases in Critical Care describes the clinical management of
some of the most common problems seen in the critically ill
patient. Twenty detailed, illustrative case histories are presented
and for each, descriptions of the problem, its underlying
pathophysiology and the key principles of principles of patient
management are given. Each 'case' is written by experts in the
field, and all contributors are practising anaesthetists and
critical care specialists of many years' experience. Core Case in
Critical Care is essential reading for all trainees in critical
care, and will also prove a valuable addition to the libraries of
other groups such as critical care nurses, surgical trainees and
practising critical care physicians and anaesthetists, both as a
useful summary of key topics in critical care in an easily-digested
format, and as a stimulus for discussion and analysis of current
practice.
Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics, Second Edition,
is innovative in its focus on preparing students for
regression/econometrics, and in its extended emphasis on
statistical reasoning, real data, pitfalls in data analysis, and
modeling issues. This book is uncommonly approachable and easy to
use, with extensive word problems that emphasize intuition and
understanding. Too many students mistakenly believe that statistics
courses are too abstract, mathematical, and tedious to be useful or
interesting. To demonstrate the power, elegance, and even beauty of
statistical reasoning, this book provides hundreds of new and
updated interesting and relevant examples, and discusses not only
the uses but also the abuses of statistics. The examples are drawn
from many areas to show that statistical reasoning is not an
irrelevant abstraction, but an important part of everyday life.
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To Hunt Men (Hardcover)
Gary Smith; Photographs by Gary Smith
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Discovery Miles 10 520
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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We underestimate the importance of luck in our lives. We think too
highly of the golfer who wins the British Open and, if he loses the
next tournament, we speculate that he slacked off. Although the
winner is surely an excellent golfer, good luck in how the ball
bounced and how it rolled afterwards outside of the golfer's
control also played an important role. An insufficient appreciation
of chance can wreak all kinds of mischief not only in sports, but
also education, medicine, business, politics and elsewhere.
Perfectly natural, random variation can lead us to attach meaning
to the meaningless. Freakonomics showed how economic calculations
can explain seemingly counter-intuitive decision-making. Thinking,
Fast and Slow, helped readers identify a host of small cognitive
errors that can lead to miscalculations and irrational thought. In
What the Luck? statistician and author, Gary Smith, sets himself a
similar goal, and explains - in clear, understandable, and witty
prose - how a statistical understanding of luck can change the way
we see just about every aspect of our lives.
Data science has never had more influence on the world. Large
companies are now seeing the benefit of employing data scientists
to interpret the vast amounts of data that now exists. However, the
field is so new and is evolving so rapidly that the analysis
produced can be haphazard at best. The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science
shows us real-world examples of what can go wrong. Written to be an
entertaining read, this invaluable guide investigates the all too
common mistakes of data scientists - who can be plagued by lazy
thinking, whims, hunches, and prejudices - and indicates how they
have been at the root of many disasters, including the Great
Recession. Gary Smith and Jay Cordes emphasise how scientific rigor
and critical thinking skills are indispensable in this age of Big
Data, as machines often find meaningless patterns that can lead to
dangerous false conclusions. The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science is
loaded with entertaining tales of both successful and misguided
approaches to interpreting data, both grand successes and epic
failures. These cautionary tales will not only help data scientists
be more effective, but also help the public distinguish between
good and bad data science.
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