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To Hunt Men (Hardcover)
Gary Smith; Photographs by Gary Smith
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For introductory courses in physical geology. Encouraging students
to observe, discover, and visualize, How Does Earth Work? Second
Edition engages students with an inquiry-based learning method that
develops a solid interpretation of introductory geology. Like
geology detectives, students learn to think through the scientific
process and uncover evidence that explains earth's mysteries.
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.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of
letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey
culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco-Spanish border,
pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had traveled to the Soviet
Union. His stunning account of that journey is unique among
Benjamin's writings for the frank, merciless way he struggles with
his motives and conscience. Perhaps the primary reason for his trip
was his affection for Asja Lacis, a Latvian Bolshevik whom he had
first met in Capri in 1924 and who would remain an important
intellectual and erotic influence on him throughout the twenties
and thirties. Asja Lacis resided in Moscow, eking out a living as a
journalist, and Benjamin's diary is, on one level, the account of
his masochistic love affair with this elusive-and rather
unsympathetic-object of desire. On another level, it is the story
of a failed romance with the Russian Revolution; for Benjamin had
journeyed to Russia not only to inform himself firsthand about
Soviet society, but also to arrive at an eventual decision about
joining the Communist Party. Benjamin's diary paints the dilemma of
a writer seduced by the promises of the Revolution yet unwilling to
blinker himself to its human and institutional failings. Moscow
Diary is more than a record of ideological ambivalence; its
literary value is considerable. Benjamin is one of the great
twentieth-century physiognomists of the city, and his portrait of
hibernal Moscow stands beside his brilliant evocations of Berlin,
Naples, Marseilles, and Paris. Students of this particularly
interesting period will find Benjamin's eyewitness account of
Moscow extraordinarily illuminating.
We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution
may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We
can do things with computers that could never be done before, and
computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But
our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their
limitations. We are told that computers are smarter than humans and
that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make
discoveries that will revolutionize our lives. Our lives may well
be changed, but not necessarily for the better. Computers are very
good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether
the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think
the way humans think. We fear that super-intelligent machines will
decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans.
But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but
that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust
computers to make important decisions for us. The AI Delusion
explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that
computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery,
and that black boxes should be trusted.
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.
Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we
are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract,
complicated, and difficult to interpret. The number of possible
patterns that can be identified relative to the number that are
genuinely useful has grown exponentially - which means that the
chances that a discovered pattern is useful is rapidly approaching
zero. Patterns in data are often used as evidence, but how can you
tell if that evidence is worth believing? We are hard-wired to
notice patterns and to think that the patterns we notice are
meaningful. Streaks, clusters, and correlations are the norm, not
the exception. Our challenge is to overcome our inherited
inclination to think that all patterns are significant, as in this
age of Big Data patterns are inevitable and usually coincidental.
Through countless examples, The Phantom Pattern Problem is an
engaging read that helps us avoid being duped by data, tricked into
worthless investing strategies, or scared out of getting
vaccinations.
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