Download or read book Uncommon Sense The Other Side of Conventional Thinking written by Bharat Bhatia and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommon Sense is about looking at things from an unconventional standpoint. It looks at how you can combine liberal and conservative values rather than chose one or the other. It shows how we can find meaning in life and the universe while still looking and it from a scientific perspective. Uncommon Sense talks about how you can combine business with charity and how government can change its spending habits. It even talks about health & fitness, education, and even reproduction from an alternative point of view.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers written by Michael Riera and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perennial bestseller (with more than 100,000 copies sold) has been completely revised and updated for a new generation of teenagers and their parents. Since its initial publication in 1995, Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers has ushered countless families through the trying years of adolescence. In this fully revised and updated edition, Riera tackles some of the newest issues facing parents and teens, and gives a second look to the old standbys—alcohol and drugs, academics, sex and dating, sports and extracurriculars, eating disorders, making friends, single parenting, divorce, and more. Riera channels his unpatronizing approach and two decades of experience working with teens into this optimistic and indispensable book.
Download or read book Don t Make Me Think written by Steve Krug and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design. Three New Chapters! Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims "I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book. In this second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Seth Moorhead and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you were taught in school that gravity is an attraction between solid bodies, didn't that sound like witchcraft to you? My manuscript, Uncommon Sense, provides a reasonable, clear, explanation of what Gravity really is plus a solution to many other problems. Uncommon Sense consists of 17 concise, researched, well-thought-out essays which offer thought-provoking solutions to problems. For instance: * Gravity is shown not to be the cause but the result of other forces, clearly shown by example. * Space travel, when the true cause of gravity is realized, leads directly to the conceptual design of a suitable vehicle without the need for conventional propulsion systems. * Transportation with its current commuter traffic jams can be alleviated by applying current technology to the design of automobiles. * Global Warming, which has been incorrectly attributed to the atmosphere by politicians, is explained has its true cause clearly explained. * The Constitution, although brilliantly conceived for its day, has a few minor flaws that need updating to the modern world, particularly in the area of qualifications needed for a President. * Children's rights, particularly as regards the duties of the parents, can and should be formalized into law and enforced as shown. * Defense against attack has recently become a real necessity and can be readily provided by the suggested methods shown. * Capitalism and Democracy, two of the greatest notions of the modern world, both contain flaws that may be fatal but could be corrected by implementing the suggestions made. * Retirement, with its unique problems, is discussed together with suggested methods of pleasant adjustment. * The Stock Market, a mystery to many and a burden to most, is explained in terms that allow anyone to understand and choose a suitable course tailor-made for success. * Muslims, through no fault of their own, are missing out of an important concept. This "missing link" is revealed and discussed. * Erasing Prejudice, a subject that is often all criticism and no constructive thought, is attacked with concrete suggestions toward achieving progress. * Religion, how parents inadvertently provide obstacles to its understanding is discussed with a few short stories. * Golf Courses, their gradual demise resulting from over-building, are shown to have a bright future for nearby inhabitants through modern technology. * Gardening, how to avoid the hard work and learn to enjoy the result is presented. * Football Helmets and their dangerous design and use is corrected by application of existing technology taken from another sport. * Used Cars and some of the pitfalls associated with owning them are pointed out as fair warning. The essay collection is intended for use as a supplement for students at the college freshman or high school level and offers students the opportunity to submit their own alternate solutions for consideration of inclusion in a future second edition.
Download or read book EBook Social Psychology 3e written by David Myers and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social psychology has a profound influence on our everyday lives; from our shopping habits to our interactions at a party. It seeks to answer questions that we often think and talk about; questions such as: - What circumstances prompt people to help, or not to help? - What factors influence the ups and downs of our close relationships? - Why do some people behave differently when on their own compared to in a group? - What leads individuals sometimes to hurt, and other times to help one another? - Why are we attracted to certain types of people? - How do some persuade others to do what they want? This new edition of Social Psychology has been revised to introduce a more flexible structure for teaching and studying. It includes up-to-date, international research with an emphasis throughout on its critical evaluation. Applied examples across the chapters help to highlight the relevance, and hence the impact, that the theories and methods of this fascinating subject have upon the social world. Key Features Include: - Research Close-Up: Following a brand-new style, this feature matches the layout used in research papers, providing an accessible introduction to journal articles and the research methods used by social psychologists. - Focus On: Fully revised, these boxes look at opposing viewpoints, controversial research or alternative approaches to the topics. This offers a more critical outlook and prompts the questioning of the validity of published research - Recommended Readings: New to this edition, recommended further readings of both classic and contemporary literature have been added to each chapter, providing a springboard for further consideration of the topics. Connect Psychology is McGraw-Hill’s digital learning and teaching environment. Students – You get easy online access to homework, tests and quizzes designed by your instructor. You receive immediate feedback on how you’re doing, making it the perfect platform to test your knowledge. Lecturers – Connect gives you the power to create auto-graded assignments, tests and quizzes online. The detailed visual reporting allows you to easily monitor your students’ progress. In addition, you can access key support materials for your teaching, including a testbank, seminar materials and lecture support. Visit: http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com for more details. Professor David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History. As of fall 2017, he serves as the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He previously served as chair of the UCLA History Department (2010-2015) and as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (1996-2000 and 2004-2010). Dr Jackie Abell is a Reader in Social Psychology with the Research Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, based at Coventry University, UK. Her current areas of research interest include the application of social psychology to wildlife conservation and environmental issues to facilitate resilience and sustainable development, place attachment and identity, social cohesion and inclusion. Professor Fabio Sani holds a Chair in Social and Health Psychology at the University of Dundee. His general research interest concerns the mental and physical health implications of group processes, social identity and sense of belonging. He has been an associate editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology.
Download or read book Common Sense and Legal Judgment written by Patricia Cochran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean when a judge in a court of law uses the phrase “common sense”? Is it a type of evidence or a mode of reasoning? In a world characterized by material and political inequalities, whose common sense should inform the law? Common Sense and Legal Judgment explores this rhetorically powerful phrase, arguing that common sense, when invoked in political and legal discourses without adequate reflection, poses a threat to the quality and legitimacy of legal judgment. Often operating in the service of conservatism, populism, or majoritarianism, common sense can harbour stereotypes, reproduce unjust power relations, and silence marginalized people. Nevertheless, drawing the works of theorists such as Thomas Reid, Antonio Gramsci, and Hannah Arendt into conversation with rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada, Patricia Cochran demonstrates that with careful attention, the democratic, egalitarian, and community-sustaining aspects of common sense can be brought to light. A call for critical self-reflection and the close scrutiny of power relationships and social contexts, this book is a direct response to social justice predicaments and their confounding relationships to law. Creative and interdisciplinary, Common Sense and Legal Judgment reinvigorates feminist and anti-poverty understandings of judgment, knowledge, justice, and accountability.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by John Blake (Author of "Uncommon Sense".) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Alan Cromer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development. But physicist and educator Alan Cromer disputes this belief. Cromer argues that science is not the natural unfolding of human potential, but the invention of a particular culture, Greece, in a particular historical period. Indeed, far from being natural, scientific thinking goes so far against the grain of conventional human thought that if it hadn't been discovered in Greece, it might not have been discovered at all. In Uncommon Sense, Alan Cromer develops the argument that science represents a radically new and different way of thinking. Using Piaget's stages of intellectual development, he shows that conventional thinking remains mired in subjective, "egocentric" ways of looking at the world--most people even today still believe in astrology, ESP, UFOs, ghosts and other paranormal phenomena--a mode of thought that science has outgrown. He provides a fascinating explanation of why science began in Greece, contrasting the Greek practice of debate to the Judaic reliance on prophets for acquiring knowledge. Other factors, such as a maritime economy and wandering scholars (both of which prevented parochialism) and an essentially literary religion not dominated by priests, also promoted in Greece an objective, analytical way of thinking not found elsewhere in the ancient world. He examines India and China and explains why science could not develop in either country. In China, for instance, astronomy served only the state, and the private study of astronomy was forbidden. Cromer also provides a perceptive account of science in Renaissance Europe and of figures such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. Along the way, Cromer touches on many intriguing topics, arguing, for instance, that much of science is essential complete; there are no new elements yet to be discovered. He debunks the vaunted SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project, which costs taxpayers millions each year, showing that physical limits--such as the melting point of metal--put an absolute limit on the speed of space travel, making trips to even the nearest star all but impossible. Finally, Cromer discusses the deplorable state of science education in America and suggests several provocative innovations to improve high school education, including a radical proposal to give all students an intensive eighth and ninth year program, eliminating the last two years of high school. Uncommon Sense is an illuminating look at science, filled with provocative observations. Whether challenging Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions, or extolling the virtues of Euclid's Elements, Alan Cromer is always insightful, outspoken, and refreshingly original.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense Teaching written by Barbara Oakley, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 10 Pick for Learning Ladders’ Best Books for Educators Summer 2021 A groundbreaking guide to improve teaching based on the latest research in neuroscience, from the bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers. Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the way teachers teach. Uncommon Sense Teaching applies this research to the classroom for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in improving education. Topics include: • keeping students motivated and engaged, especially with online learning • helping students remember information long-term, so it isn't immediately forgotten after a test • how to teach inclusively in a diverse classroom where students have a wide range of abilities Drawing on research findings as well as the authors' combined decades of experience in the classroom, Uncommon Sense Teaching equips readers with the tools to enhance their teaching, whether they're seasoned professionals or parents trying to offer extra support for their children's education.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Liam Sean and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommon Sense is the most powerful book written in America since Common Sense. A rallying cry for Americans of all backgrounds to unite. A book that champions government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Uncommon Sense lays bare the machinations by the corporate-oligarchy to take over the Republican Party, form a one-party government ruled by a minority of people, and plunge the Democratic Republic of the United States into an autocratic government. The most controversial issues being left unresolved in America today are solved: abortion, gun control, taxes, the National Debt, policing, immigration, etc. All of this is done with passion, insight, research, wisdom, and critical thinking. Using deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, Occam's Razor, and by following the money, Liam Sean reignites the fire of freedom. We are the tinder. Liberty is the cause!
Download or read book Second Thoughts Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom written by Janet M. Ruane and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? Does haste make waste or should you strike while the iron is hot? Adages like these—or conventional wisdoms—shape our social life. This Fifth Edition of Second Thoughts reviews several popular beliefs and notes how such adages cannot be taken at face value. This unique text encourages students to step back and sharpen their analytic focus with 24 essays that use social research to expose the gray areas of commonly held beliefs, revealing the complexity of social reality and sharpening students’ sociological vision.
Download or read book The Relativity of Deviance written by John Curra and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and informative book, by award-winning sociologist and criminologist John Curra, offers a valuable perspective on attitudes and behaviors labeled as deviant. The Relativity of Deviance, Fourth Edition, explores the meanings and constructions of social deviance and social reactions to it, he answers such questions as: What is deviance? What comprises deviant behavior? How are deviants treated? How is deviance socially constructed and socially sustained? Why is the same attitude, behavior, or condition praised in one situation and condemned in another? Through insightful and thought-provoking examples and informed accounts, the author illustrates that deviance cannot be explained or understood in terms of absolutes or essential characteristics nor can it be explained or understood apart from its social setting. This book approaches sex, violence, theft, drugs, suicide, rape, and mental disorders in a way that shows the critical role of sociocultural factors and social reactions in constructions of deviance and crime.
Download or read book Nursing and Health Care Research written by Collette Clifford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. This volume is part of the Prentice Hall series- a series of comprehensive textbooks and reference manuals for nurses and other health care professionals. The development of a number of sections in the second edition of this book serves perhaps as an indication of the changes that have occurred in health care education and research over recent years. The emphasis of this text, as in the first edition, is to trace the research process from the initial idea through to dissemination and implementation of findings as appropriate. In so doing, a number of sections have been enlarged and updated. This includes a greater emphasis on some of the ‘planning’ issues in research seen as particularly important given the increased opportunity available for practitioners to take part in funded research projects. From this perspective increased emphasis has been given to acquiring funding for research and working with established systems of ethical approval.
Download or read book Constitutionalism and Society in Africa written by Okon Akiba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a refreshingly in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of constitutional provisions for managing the challenges of race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, civil liberties and civil-military relations in Africa's transitional democracies.
Download or read book Classes Cultures and Politics written by Clare V. J. Griffiths and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the fields in British history that have been illustrated by the works of Ross McKibbin. Written by a distinguished team of scholars, it examines McKibbin's life and thought, and explores the implications of his arguments.
Download or read book War and the Politics of Ethics written by Maja Zehfuss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, the problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.
Download or read book Mark Twain and the Brazen Serpent written by Doug Aldridge and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the overarching theme of religious satire in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this study reveals the novel's hidden motive, moral and plot. The author considers generations of criticism spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, along with new textual evidence showing how Twain's richly evocative style dissects Huck's conscience to propose humane amorality as a corrective to moral absolutes. Jim and Huck emerge as archetypal twins--biracial brothers who prefigure America's color-blind ideals.
