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The fundamental guide to gastrointestinal endoscopy returns in a
fully updated new edition For over forty years, Cotton and
Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy offers a clear,
accessible introduction to endoscopic fundamentals, from patient
positioning to the range of available procedures. Now updated by a
new authorial team to reflect rapid recent advances in endoscopic
procedures, this text promises to serve a new generation of
students and specialists as the essential introduction to upper and
lower gastrointestinal endoscopies. Readers of the eighth edition
of Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy will
also find: Updated online resources including a downloadable bank
of clinical photos High-quality videos illustrating endoscopic
practices and procedures, keyed to specific points in the text
Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy remains a
must-own for all trainee and specialist gastroenterologists and
endoscopists.
First published in 1962, The Diversity of Meaning was written to
provide a more constructive criticism of the philosophy of ordinary
language than the more destructive approach that it was commonly
subjected to at the time of publication. The book deals with a
range of philosophical problems in a way that cuts underneath the
more typical orthodoxies of the time. It is concerned primarily
with the concept of meaning and asks not just how people ordinarily
speak or think about meanings, but also what is gained or lost by
their so doing. The author challenges the assumption that there is
only one way of talking about meanings and instead argues that no
single analysis of meaning can suit the semantics of
lexicographers, language-teachers, translators, logicians,
historians of ideas, psychologists and philosophers. By examining
various common concepts of meaning and their relations to one
another, the book sheds light on the issues most alive in
philosophical controversy at the time of publication, giving it
lasting relevance for those interested in the history of
philosophical thought and theory.
Originally published in 1973. This book presents a valid mode of
reasoning that is different to mathematical probability. This
inductive logic is investigated in terms of scientific
investigation. The author presents his criteria of adequacy for
analysing inductive support for hypotheses and discusses each of
these criteria in depth. The chapters cover philosophical problems
and paradoxes about experimental support, probability and
justifiability, ending with a system of logical syntax of
induction. Each section begins with a summary of its contents and
there is a glossary of technical terms to aid the reader.
Originally published in 1973. This book presents a valid mode of
reasoning that is different to mathematical probability. This
inductive logic is investigated in terms of scientific
investigation. The author presents his criteria of adequacy for
analysing inductive support for hypotheses and discusses each of
these criteria in depth. The chapters cover philosophical problems
and paradoxes about experimental support, probability and
justifiability, ending with a system of logical syntax of
induction. Each section begins with a summary of its contents and
there is a glossary of technical terms to aid the reader.
Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards
demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege
cognitive aspects of learning while also advancing prosocial or
Whole Child efforts (e.g., social emotional learning, character
education, and mental health promotion). The book utilizes a
growing body of research to reveal effective ways to implement a
curriculum that integrates social, emotional, ethical, and civic
aspects of learning with required state standards, and a wide range
of "real world" examples describe how any school, anywhere, can lay
a foundation for all young people to succeed.
Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards
demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege
cognitive aspects of learning while also advancing prosocial or
Whole Child efforts (e.g., social emotional learning, character
education, and mental health promotion). The book utilizes a
growing body of research to reveal effective ways to implement a
curriculum that integrates social, emotional, ethical, and civic
aspects of learning with required state standards, and a wide range
of "real world" examples describe how any school, anywhere, can lay
a foundation for all young people to succeed.
First published in 1962, The Diversity of Meaning was written to
provide a more constructive criticism of the philosophy of ordinary
language than the more destructive approach that it was commonly
subjected to at the time of publication. The book deals with a
range of philosophical problems in a way that cuts underneath the
more typical orthodoxies of the time. It is concerned primarily
with the concept of meaning and asks not just how people ordinarily
speak or think about meanings, but also what is gained or lost by
their so doing. The author challenges the assumption that there is
only one way of talking about meanings and instead argues that no
single analysis of meaning can suit the semantics of
lexicographers, language-teachers, translators, logicians,
historians of ideas, psychologists and philosophers. By examining
various common concepts of meaning and their relations to one
another, the book sheds light on the issues most alive in
philosophical controversy at the time of publication, giving it
lasting relevance for those interested in the history of
philosophical thought and theory.
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Al Que Quiere! (Paperback)
William Carlos Williams; Edited by Jonathan Cohen
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Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press, Al Que Quiere! was
William Carlos Williams's breakthrough book and contains some of
his best-loved poems ("Tract," "Apology," "El Hombre," "Danse
Russe," "January Morning," and "Smell!"), as well as a Whitmanesque
concluding long poem, "The Wanderer," that anticipates his epic
masterpiece Paterson. Al Que Quiere! is the culmination of an
experimental period for Williams that included his translations
from Spanish. The Spanish epigraph of Al Que Quiere! is from the
short story "El hombre que parecia un caballo" ("The Man Who
Resembled a Horse"), by the Guatemalan author Rafael Arevalo
Martinez. This centennial edition contains Williams's translation
of the story, as well as his commentary from a book of
conversations, I Wanted to Write a Poem, on the individual poems of
Al Que Quiere!
In 2000, Congress passed the African Growth and Opportunity Act
(AGOA), a U.S. trade preference program, in order to help spur
market-led economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA) and deepen U.S. trade and investment ties with the region.
Since its enactment, Congress has amended AGOA five times, making
some technical changes and renewing the trade preferences through
September 30, 2015. According to the Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative, (USTR) for Africa, "AGOA is the cornerstone of
America's trade and investment policy with sub-Saharan Africa."
Economic conditions in Africa, however, have changed considerably
since Congress passed the initial AGOA legislation. Annual real
gross domestic product (GDP) growth in SSA was nearly a full
percentage point lower than global GDP growth (2.3% vs. 3.2%) in
the decade leading up to AGOA's passage (1990-2000). Over the last
ten years, however, SSA's growth averaged 5.7%, two points higher
than the 3.7% world average. While the region still contains many
of the world's poorest countries and faces significant economic
challenges, some observers and policymakers argue that changing
economic conditions warrant an evolution in U.S. policy toward SSA,
focused more strongly on private sector investment and increasing
two-way trade. In recent years, SSA's growing economic potential
and abundant natural resources have attracted other foreign
investors, including state- supported enterprises from countries
such as China, which is now the region's largest trading partner.
This book seeks to inform the discussion on the potential
reauthorization of AGOA through analysis of: (1) the components of
the AGOA legislation; (2) U.S. import trends associated with AGOA;
(3) the impact of AGOA on African economies and U.S.-Africa trade;
and (4) the issues surrounding the reauthorization process.
Since its emergence as an important research area in the early
1980s, the topic of wavelets has undergone tremendous development
on both theoretical and applied fronts. Myriad research and survey
papers and monographs have been published on the subject,
documenting different areas of applications such as sound and image
processing, denoising, data compression, tomography, and medical
imaging. The study of wavelets remains a very active field of
research, and many of its central techniques and ideas have evolved
into new and promising research areas.
This volume, a collection of invited contributions developed
from talks at an international conference on wavelets, is divided
into three parts: Part I is devoted to the mathematical theory of
wavelets and features several papers on wavelet sets and the
construction of wavelet bases in different settings. Part II looks
at the use of multiscale harmonic analysis for understanding the
geometry of large data sets and extracting information from them.
Part III focuses on applications of wavelet theory to the study of
several real-world problems.
Overall, the book is an excellent reference for graduate
students, researchers, and practitioners in theoretical and applied
mathematics, or in engineering.
I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the
opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and
language. The Introduction to the volume has been written by James
Logue, and I need to pay a very sincerely intended tribute to the
care and professionalism which he has devoted to every feature of
its production. My thanks are also due to Matthew MeG rattan for
his technical as sistance in scanning the articles onto disk and
formatting them. 1. Jonathan Cohen vii Publisher's Note Thanks are
due to the following publishers for permission to reproduce the
articles in this volume. On the project of a universal character.
Oxford University Press. Paper 1 On a concept of a degree of
grammaticalness. Logique et Analyse. Paper 2 Paper 3 The semantics
of metaphor. Cambridge University Press. Paper 4 Can the logic of
indirect discourse be formalised? The Association for Symbolic
Logic. Paper 5 Some remarks on Grice's views about the logical
particles of natural language. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Paper 6
Can the conversationalist hypothesis be defended? Kluwer Academic
Publishers. Paper 7 How is conceptual innovation possible? Kluwer
Academic Publishers. Should natural language definitions be
insulated from, or interactive Paper 8 with, one another in
sentence composition? Kluwer Academic Publish ers. Paper 9 A
problem about truth-functional semantics. Basil Blackwell Publisher
Ltd. Paper 10 The individuation of proper names. Oxford University
Press. Paper 11 Some comments on third world epistemology. Oxford
University Press. Paper 12 Guessing. The Aristotelian Society."
Leading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about
color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools are applied to
the most sophisticated color science. Philosophers and scientists
have long speculated about the nature of color. Atomists such as
Democritus thought color to be "conventional," not real; Galileo
and other key figures of the Scientific Revolution thought that it
was an erroneous projection of our own sensations onto external
objects. More recently, philosophers have enriched the debate about
color by aligning the most advanced color science with the most
sophisticated methods of analytical philosophy. In this volume,
leading scientists and philosophers examine new problems with new
analytic tools, considering such topics as the psychophysical
measurement of color and its implications, the nature of color
experience in both normal color-perceivers and the color blind, and
questions that arise from what we now know about the neural
processing of color information, color consciousness, and color
language. Taken together, these papers point toward a complete
restructuring of current orthodoxy concerning color experience and
how it relates to objective reality. Kuehni, Jameson, Mausfeld, and
Niederee discuss how the traditional framework of a
three-dimensional color space and basic color terms is far too
simple to capture the complexities of color experience. Clark and
MacLeod discuss the difficulties of a materialist account of color
experience. Churchland, Cohen, Matthen, and Westphal offer
competing accounts of color ontology. Finally, Broackes and Byrne
and Hilbert discuss the phenomenology of color blindness.
Contributors Justin Broackes, Alex Byrne, Paul M. Churchland,
Austen Clark, Jonathan Cohen, David R. Hilbert, Kimberly A.
Jameson, Rolf Kuehni, Don I.A. MacLeod, Mohan Matthen, Rainer
Mausfeld, Richard Niederee, Jonathan Westphal
In this practical manual, the authors demonstrate the important
relationship between social emotional and ethical education and
school safety. They combine traditional crisis management and
emergency planning with all of the principles that have become the
cornerstones of the field of evidence-based, social emotional
learning and character education. Featuring real-life examples and
best practices, they cover widespread concerns, ranging from
student behavioral issues such as bullying and social exclusion to
gang-related violence and other tragic events. This essential
resource will help schools be proactive in preventing tragedies, as
well as effectively reactive when they occur.
I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the
opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and
language. The Introduction to the volume has been written by James
Logue, and I need to pay a very sincerely intended tribute to the
care and professionalism which he has devoted to every feature of
its production. My thanks are also due to Matthew MeG rattan for
his technical as sistance in scanning the articles onto disk and
formatting them. 1. Jonathan Cohen vii Publisher's Note Thanks are
due to the following publishers for permission to reproduce the
articles in this volume. On the project of a universal character.
Oxford University Press. Paper 1 On a concept of a degree of
grammaticalness. Logique et Analyse. Paper 2 Paper 3 The semantics
of metaphor. Cambridge University Press. Paper 4 Can the logic of
indirect discourse be formalised? The Association for Symbolic
Logic. Paper 5 Some remarks on Grice's views about the logical
particles of natural language. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Paper 6
Can the conversationalist hypothesis be defended? Kluwer Academic
Publishers. Paper 7 How is conceptual innovation possible? Kluwer
Academic Publishers. Should natural language definitions be
insulated from, or interactive Paper 8 with, one another in
sentence composition? Kluwer Academic Publish ers. Paper 9 A
problem about truth-functional semantics. Basil Blackwell Publisher
Ltd. Paper 10 The individuation of proper names. Oxford University
Press. Paper 11 Some comments on third world epistemology. Oxford
University Press. Paper 12 Guessing. The Aristotelian Society."
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