If you're doing anything technical, think Mathematica--not just for computation but for modeling, simulation, visualization, development, documentation, and deployment.
Why Mathematica? Because this one integrated software system delivers unprecedented workflow, coherence, reliability, and innovation. Rather than requiring different toolkits for different jobs, Mathematica has been built from its inception to deliver one vision: the ultimate technical computing environment
What is discourse and how has the new interdisciplinary field of discourse studies developed? What are the linguistic and other structures of discourse at various levels of analysis? How do people - and their minds - go about producing and remembering text or talk? How are these mental processes interactionally shaped? Covering a great variety of genres, both written and spoken, Discourse as Structure and Process explains how discourse is organized, how discursive form and meaning are related and what the functions are of style and rhetoric in the communicative context.
If you are curious about Educational Psychology, this book is for you. You can read the chapters in any sequence, or you can start at the beginning, because this book provides myriad keys to the wonderful variety of themes in Educational Psychology today. Written by leading psychologists, researchers and practitioners, this book focuses on all the positive constructs in Educational Psychology and reflects on the wide range of strengths, assets and resources available to the educational psychologist.
Forecasting Financial Markets: The Psychology of Successful Investing, Sixth Edition
Forecasting Financial Markets provides a compelling insight into the psychology of trading behavior and shows how "following the herd" can have disastrous results. It demonstrates how one's ability to make money in the world's financial markets depends critically on an ability to make decisions independently of the crowd.
Currect Issues in Linguistic Theory by Noam Chomsky
From the Author In this paper, I will restrict the term "linguistic theory" to systems of hypotheses concerning the general features of human language put forth in an attempt to account for a certain range of linguistic phenomena. I will not be concerned with systems of terminology or methods of investigation (analytic procedures).