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In business it is often necessary to apply a mathematical framework
in order to solve everyday problems. This text takes a problem- and
context-driven approach with the mathematics introduced only on a
need-to-know basis. Care is taken not to overwhelm the student with
mathematical techniques but to relate these techniques to specific
business areas. The only exception to this form of presentation
will be in the first two chapters where the elementary basics of
arithmetic and algebra are displayed - albeit here, within
financial and commercial contexts as well.
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Feathered (Hardcover)
Peter J Booth
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This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers
presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole
University-the seventh in a series of annual American and European
Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole
University, Poland. The papers were written independently with no
prior guidelines other than the obvious need to address some aspect
of George Herbert Mead's work. While rooted in careful study of
Mead's original writings and transcribed lectures and the
historical context in which that work was carried out, these papers
have brought that work to bear on contemporary issues in
metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and
political philosophy. There is good reason to classify Mead as one
of the original classical American pragmatists (along with Charles
Peirce, William James, and John Dewey) and consequently as a major
figure in American philosophy. Nevertheless his thought has been
marginalized for the most part, at least in academic philosophy. It
is our intention to help recuperate Mead's reputation among a
broader audience by providing a small corpus of significant
contemporary scholarship on some key aspects of his thought.
James Booth reads Philip Larkin's mature poetry in terms of his
ambiguous self-image as lonely, anti-social outsider, plighted to
his art, and as nine-to-five librarian, sharing the common plight
of humanity. Booth's focus is on Larkin's artistry with words, the
'verbal devices' through which this purest of lyric poets
celebrates 'the experience. The beauty.' Featuring discussion for
the first time of two recently discovered poems by Larkin, this
original and exciting new study will be of interest to all
students, scholars and enthusiasts of Larkin.
Responding to the work of previous critics of psychiatry, who have
associated its undue dominance with both a modern scientific
paradigm and political factors, Jenifer Booth puts forward a
theoretical challenge based on MacIntyres work on Aquinas and
Aristotle, but adding the museum and assembly as conceptual
thinking tools.
MacIntyres work on practices, tradition-constituted enquiry,
Marxist ideology and Kuhn are all used in putting forward a
pre-modern view of knowledge. The feminist philosophy of Luce
Irigaray widens the project to include psychotherapy. Booth puts
forward a workable and kind version of psychiatric medicine which
sets the work of the mental health service user movement in
context.
This book should be of value to anyone who has ever wondered why
doctors have so much power or who has thought that spiritual and
social factors should have more weight in medicine.
It will be of interest to moral philosophers, theologians and
feminist theologians, philosophers of medicine and museums studies
professionals alike.
Inclusion in Higher Education: Inquiry-Based Approaches to Change
presents an inquiry-based approach to inclusion in higher education
that embraces scholarly inquiry, collaborative efforts, and
data-driven interventions to inform transformative institutional
change. Contributors analyze inclusion initiatives that address the
experiences of minoritized groups on college campuses and recommend
tailored interventions for the needs of underrepresented students
in varied fields of study.
Inclusion in Higher Education: Inquiry-Based Approaches to Change
presents an inquiry-based approach to inclusion in higher education
that embraces scholarly inquiry, collaborative efforts, and
data-driven interventions to inform transformative institutional
change. Contributors analyze inclusion initiatives that address the
experiences of minoritized groups on college campuses and recommend
tailored interventions for the needs of underrepresented students
in varied fields of study.
This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers
presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole
University-the seventh in a series of annual American and European
Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole
University, Poland. The papers were written independently with no
prior guidelines other than the obvious need to address some aspect
of George Herbert Mead's work. While rooted in careful study of
Mead's original writings and transcribed lectures and the
historical context in which that work was carried out, these papers
have brought that work to bear on contemporary issues in
metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and
political philosophy. There is good reason to classify Mead as one
of the original classical American pragmatists (along with Charles
Peirce, William James, and John Dewey) and consequently as a major
figure in American philosophy. Nevertheless his thought has been
marginalized for the most part, at least in academic philosophy. It
is our intention to help recuperate Mead's reputation among a
broader audience by providing a small corpus of significant
contemporary scholarship on some key aspects of his thought.
This complete entry-level textbook from leading authors gives
students the confidence they need to succeed in core mathematics
skills in preparation for undergraduate courses in engineering or
science, or to build skills to support the mathematical elements of
other degree courses. Its unique programmed approach takes students
through the mathematics they need in a step-by-step fashion with a
wealth of examples and exercises. The text demands that students
engage with it by asking them to complete steps that they can
manage from previous examples or knowledge they have acquired,
while carefully introducing new steps. By working with the authors
through the examples, students become proficient as they go. By the
time they come to trying examples on their own, confidence is high.
The text is aimed at students on Foundation courses in engineering,
construction, science and computer science, and for all mathematics
courses for students of business studies, psychology, and
geography.
The world is upside down. The emerging market countries are more
important than many investors realise. They have been catching up
with the West over the past few decades. Greater market freedom has
spread since the end of the Cold War, and with it institutional
changes which have further assisted emerging economies in becoming
more productive, flexible, and resilient. The Western financial
crisis from 2008 has quickened the pace of the relative rise of
emerging markets - their relative economic power, and with it
political power, but also their financial power as savers,
investors and creditors. Emerging Markets in an Upside Down World -
Challenging Perceptions in Asset Allocation and Investment argues
that finance theory has misunderstood risk and that this has led to
poor investment decisions; and that emerging markets constitute a
good example of why traditional finance theory is faulty. The book
accurately describes the complex and changing global environment
currently facing the investor and asset allocator. It raises many
questions often bypassed because of the use of simplifying
assumptions and models. The narrative builds towards a checklist of
issues and questions for the asset allocator and investor and then
to a discussion of a variety of regulatory and policy issues. Aimed
at institutional and retail investors as well as economics,
finance, business and international relations students, Emerging
Markets in an Upside Down World covers many complex ideas, but is
written to be accessible to the non-expert.
The author applies modified versions of pre-modern philosophy
(including Aristotle and Aquinas) to psychiatry, arguing that the
work of the Aristotelian philosopher, Christian and former Marxist,
Alasdair MacIntyre is ideally placed to bring about a
transformation of psychiatry from its current captivity to the
modern scientific technical paradigm.
This Symposium began with a proposal for a meeting to honour Emer
itus Professor Robert Hanbury Brown on the occasion of his 80th
birthday. He requested that any such meeting should be on a topic
that would be of benefit to the Sydney University Stellar
Interferometer (SUSI) program. With SUSI and several other high
angular resolution instruments either in operation or coming on
line within the next decade, and with advances in astrometry,
spectroscopy and in theoretical models of stellar atmospheres and
interiors, it appeared to be both appropriate and timely to hold a
symposium on "Fundamental Stellar Properties: the Interaction
between Observation and Theory. " The emphasis of the meeting was
on the critical assessment of the qual ity, accuracy, and prospects
for improvement of the observational data and theoretical models,
on the outstanding problems in stellar astrophysics, and on the
feasibility of achieving the observational and theoretical advances
required for their solution. Invited papers comprised the major
part of the oral program and the speakers responded to the
challenge issued by the Scientific Organising Committee to
critically review the current status and prospects for their area
of expertise. The Symposium was opened by the Chancellor of the
University of Sydney, Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie Kramer, who
welcomed the 126 participants from 22 countries on behalf of the
University. The oral program included . 52 invited reviews and
papers and 10 contributed papers."
A long-standing, best-selling, comprehensive textbook covering all
the mathematics required on upper level engineering mathematics
undergraduate courses. Its unique approach takes you through all
the mathematics you need in a step-by-step fashion with a wealth of
examples and exercises. The text demands that you engage with it by
asking you to complete steps that you should be able to manage from
previous examples or knowledge you have acquired, while carefully
introducing new steps. By working with the authors through the
examples, you become proficient as you go. By the time you come to
trying examples on their own, confidence is high. Suitable for
undergraduates in second and third year courses on engineering and
science degrees.
The best-selling introductory mathematics textbook for students on
engineering and science degree and pre-degree courses. Sales stand
at more than half a million copies world-wide. Its unique
programmed approach really works! Many thousands of students have
found that they understand and excel through using this book. It
takes you through the mathematics in a step-by-step fashion with a
wealth of examples and exercises. The text demands that you engage
with it by asking you to complete steps that you should be able to
manage from previous examples or knowledge you have acquired, while
carefully introducing new steps. By working with the authors
through the examples, you become proficient as you go. By the time
you come to trying examples on your own, confidence is high. Aimed
at undergraduates on Foundation and First Year degree programmes in
all Engineering disciplines and Science. The Foundation section
covers mathematics from GCSE onwards to allow for revision and
gap-filling, and so means the book can be used for a range of
abilities and all levels of access. New to this Edition: - A
general revision of the entire contents - In Matrices an emphasis
on eigenvalues and eigenvectors and the introduction of the
Cayley-Hamilton theorem - New review summaries plus a new easy
reference to help check back when you need more help - Key chapters
improved yet further as a result of detailed student feedback
Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at
bloomsburyonlineresources.com/engineering-mathematics. These
resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using
this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
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Sons and Lovers (Paperback, Reissue)
D. H Lawrence; Introduction by Howard J. Booth; Notes by Howard J. Booth; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at
Canterbury. 'When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have
lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win
free from his old life'. Richard Aldington This novel is Lawrence's
semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional
conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating
relationships with a demanding mother and two very different
lovers. Lawrence's novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration
in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and
relationships in youth and early adulthood.
"Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed
and controversial of writers in English. His books have sold in
great numbers, and he remains the youngest writer to have won the
Nobel Prize in Literature. Many associate Kipling with poems such
as 'If-', his novel Kim, his pioneering use of the short story form
and such works for children as the Just So Stories. For others,
though, Kipling is the very symbol of the British Empire and a
belligerent approach to other peoples and races. This Companion
explores Kipling's main themes and texts, the different genres in
which he worked and the various phases of his career. It also
examines the 'afterlives' of his texts in postcolonial writing and
through adaptations of his work. With a chronology and guide to
further reading, this book serves as a useful introduction for
students of literature and of Empire and its after effects"--
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm17950836Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1892. xvii,
749 p.; 24 cm.
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