Posted: May 1st, 2008, 6:08am CEST
This volume appraises the major philosophical contributions of Hilary Putnam (b. 1926) to the theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. Concerned not only with the broad spectrum of problems addressed, it also details the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the years. The analysis constitutes a critical introduction to central issues in contemporary philosophy, including quantum logic, realism, functionalism, the "mind as computer" metaphor, and the fact/value dichotomy.
The richness of Putnam's philosophical oeuvre consists not only in the broad spectrum of problems addressed, but also in the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the years. The essays collected in this volume are sensitive to both these dimensions. They discuss Putnam's major philosophical contributions to the theory of meaning, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. But, in addition, tracing threads of change and continuity, they analyze the dynamics underlying the unfolding of Putnam's thought. The volume also constitutes a critical introduction to a number of central issues in contemporary philosophy, including quantum logic, realism, functionalism, the 'minds as computer' metaphor, and the fact/value dichotomy.
About the Author
Yemima Ben-Menahem is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:33am CEST
"Get a Grip! offers a healthy dose of practical advice. An absolute necessity for anyone who wants to stay on top, but who is at risk for the big burnout."
—George Dennish, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine University of California, San Diego
"This insightful and helpful book shows you how to take complete control of your emotions and achieve peak performance in every area of your life."
—Brian Tracy, author of Create Your Own Future
Get a Grip! offers a powerful prescription for living and thriving in today's high-stress world. This reader-friendly guide takes a straightforward approach to conquering stress, presenting quick and easy tactics for relaxing and reviving the mind, body, and spirit. Stress expert Bob Losyk gives you the tools to identify the causes of stress in your life and shows you which stress-busting techniques best fit your lifestyle and schedule. Based on a wide range of influences—including nutrition and diet, meditation and breathing techniques, and relaxation exercises—you'll develop your own effective, personalized stress-fighting regimen. This book is for everyone who wants to live a better life—from CEOs to homemakers.
Inside, you'll discover:
- The causes of stress and its impact on organizations and individuals
- How to measure your stress and get off the road to job burnout
- Exercise, meditation, and stretching techniques for relaxation and stress relief
- Tips on healthy nutrition for increased mental and physical well-being
- Fresh ideas for fun activities that rejuvenate your spirit and sense of humor
- Valuable insight on balancing your life and living it to the fullest
- Advice on simplifying and balancing your priorities to get more done under less pressure
- And fifty quick ideas for getting a grip on stress—now!
No matter what causes your stress—and no matter how little time and how many commitments you have—Get a Grip! will help you find easy ways to reduce everyday tension and live a happier, healthier life.
About the Author
BOB LOSYK is a business consultant, trainer, and international speaker on the topic of stress management. His clients include such corporations as American Express, IBM, Inc. magazine, Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Corporation, Honda, Subway, Taco Bell, and many more.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:16am CEST
Won Highly Commended in the Neurology category of the 2004 British Medical Association Library Book Competition.
In addition to providing an excellent review of the clinical examination of traumatic brain injured patients, the sections describing neuropsychiatric testing are quite helpful. Overall, this book should prove usefula good reference source.
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Numerous books exist on traumatic brain injury, yet none comprehensively cover evaluation from both clinical and forensic standpoints. Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment is the first medical book to guide treatment practitioners not only in methods for evaluating traumatic brain injury in adults and children, but also in the important elements of forensic brain injury assessment. From the clinical aspect, the book details neurobehavioral data analysis and describes how to apply it to treatment planning and pharmacotherapy following traumatic brain injury. From the forensic perspective, it provides methods for detecting deception at examination and emphasizes the important legal concepts of causation, damages, and impairment determination following traumatic brain injury. The text provides multiple explanatory tables, structural and functional brain imaging figures, and liberal case examples of actual traumatic brain injury examinations and reports. The practical and pragmatic approach offered in Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment will aid clinicians and forensic specialists in comprehensively evaluating the TBI patient and successfully presenting the evaluation in the courtroom.
Lexington Forensic Institute, KY. Details how neurobehavioral data applies to treatment planning and pharmacotherapy following traumatic brain injury. Provides methods for detecting deception at examination and emphasizes the legal concepts of causation, damages, and impairment determination following traumatic brain injury. DNLM: Brain Injuries--complications.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:16am CEST
After decades of neglect, researchers have begun to focus attention on the development and outcomes of girlhood aggression. This comprehensive volume provides an account of some of the pioneering research in the field. Its central aims are to highlight current understanding, identify key components for preventing and treating the complex array of problems experienced by aggressive girls, and raise new questions for future research.
The perspectives presented by the authors highlight the diverse factors that moderate the emergence of aggression while offering insight into how to target that aggression at various stages of development. The problem is presented as a continuum from normative forms of behavior to extreme and serious attacks. The importance of relationships--particularly family relationships--is a theme that permeates the entire volume. A growing body of research indicates that aggression in girls is a predictor of long-term psychological, social, academic, health, and intergenerational problems. The knowledge provided by the authors has tremendous potential to inform practice with troubled girls, their families, and support systems.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:14am CEST
The similarities between C# and Java are immediate and obvious, but Java programmers need to overcome certain challenges before they can get up to speed with C#. The expert authors of this title have written the perfect guide to help Java developers move past pitfalls and learn to make use of C#.The authors demonstrate the syntactical and architectural similarities between the two languages-and what's different in C#-to transform Java developers into productive C# developers as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Java developers—learn C# quickly and thoroughly with this book!
Although Java and C# share many similarities, there are fundamental differences between them. What's more, C#—the language designed from the ground up for programming the Microsoft® .NET Framework—offers a wealth of new features that enable programmers to tap the full power of .NET. This is the ideal guide to help any experts—reveal the similarities and differences between the two platforms these languages support. Then they show you how to leverage your Java experience to get up to speed in C# development with a minimum of difficulty. It's the definitive programming resource as you tackle the .NET class libraries and learn to write applications for .NET with C#.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:14am CEST
Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition gives developers a formal introduction to XML technology, starting with indepth coverage of basic syntax and fundamental "pieces" of XML, including DTDs, Schemas, and Namespaces. The authors then cover various applications of XML, including transforming and displaying XML documents using CSS and XSL, locating data within XML documents using Xpath, Xlink and Xpointer, programming XML with SAX or DOM, including XML in Java or .NET applications, XML Scripting with Perl, XHTML and WML for presentation on traditional and handheld Web browsers, and querying data or documents with Xquery. The final chapters cover technologies related to XML such as SVG, SMIL, and RDF, focusing on the practical features developers can put to use today.
About the Author
David Gulbransen is the CEO of Vervet Logic, an XML tools development company. More than 5,000 businesses have licensed XML Pro, their XML editor, including The European Union, the Library of Congress, IBM, Prudential, Intel, Cisco Systems, New York Life, Harvard University, and Purdue University. More than 30,000 developers receive Vervet's newsletters. David has been involved with XML since before there was a standard, shipping the final version of XML Pro as XML 1.0 was made final. Today Vervet's strategic partnerships include IBM, Sun, BlueStone, Siber Logic, and OpenText. His most recent book was Special Edition Using XML Schema.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:12am CEST
More fortunes are built in real estate on borrowed money than in any other business. And you can build your fortune in real estate using borrowed money too–if you follow the advice and tips in this book.
Whether you’re making your first foray into real estate investing or have invested for a number of years, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate will show you how to acquire income-producing real estate and build your wealth by using borrowed money. Long-time real estate advisor Tyler Hicks offers proven strategies and real-world examples to illustrate how much MIF–Money in Fist–you can realistically earn by investing in real estate.
A valuable guide for new, experienced, or affluent real estate investors, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate covers all the bases, from finding loans to hiring an accountant and an attorney to help with the business. Letters from individuals who have successfully followed the strategies outlined in this book are also included to help you understand exactly what you must do to make this plan work for you.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate discusses important real estate topics–including creative financing, acquiring single-family homes, and becoming a private lender client–to allow you to make the most of your investments in real estate.
Proven strategies for successful real estate investing
Anyone–whether they are making their first foray into real estate investing or have invested for a number of years–can acquire properties without using their own savings. 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate shows readers how, regardless of their credit history, they can acquire income-producing real estate by using borrowed money. Longtime real estate investor Tyler Hicks offers proven strategies and real-world examples to illustrate how much MIF–Money in Fist–readers can realistically earn by investing in real estate. Valuable to both new as well as more experienced and affluent real estate investors, 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate covers all the bases, from hiring an accountant and an attorney to help with the business to the legal aspects of real estate. Letters from individuals who have successfully followed the strategies outlined in this book are also included as both a motivational tool and as a testament to this proven real estate investing program. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource discusses important real estate topics–such as finding loans, creative financing, acquiring single-family homes, and becoming a private lender client–and allows readers to make the most of their investments in real estate.
Tyler G. Hicks (Rockville Center, NY) is a longtime real estate investor and director of a large lending organization that has made millions of dollars in real estate loans. Hicks has also written several bestselling books on real estate investing, including How to Make Big Money in Real Estate.
About the Author
TYLER G. HICKS is a long-time real estate advisor and director of a large lending organization that has made millions of dollars in real estate loans. Hicks has also written several books on real estate investing, including How to Make Big Money in Real Estate.
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:10am CEST
The main purpose of this book is to present an introduction to flowgraph models for time-to-event data. The focus is on stochastic models for censored time-to-event data with competing risks and recurrent events. The applications are geared to survivalanalysis and reliability. I view flowgraph models as providing a methodology for data analysis of semi-Markov processes that can be applied without becoming intimately familiar with the mathematical theory of stochastic processes. My early experience with stochastic processes left me with the impression that there were lots of nice models, but I could not think of how to analyze data with them except in the simplest cases. I found myself unhappy with the exponential assumption and limit theorems, which although they provided some approximation, did not reflect the real system. My early work in flowgraphs was on queues, but I soon found myself drawn to interesting applications in survival analysis. Consequently, I continued to work in both survival analysis and engineering systems. Flowgraphs bring together applied probability techniques such as transforms and saddlepoint methods and meld them with data analysis and statistical methods. Flowgraph models are analyzed using Bayesian methods, or if one prefers, maximum likelihood techniques.
This book is intended for students and practitioners of statistics who have some background at the level of a one-year graduate course in probability and statistics. Although background in survival analysis or systems reliability is not assumed, a one-semester course or some experience with standard methods in these areas would be helpful. The first seven chapters are structured for a one-semester topicscourse. The remaining two chapters are more advanced. A large number of worked examples are presented along with computer code as needed. For readers who are not as interested in computation, Section 3.5 and Chapter 6 can be skipped without loss of continuity.
