Mathemagics - The Art Of Mental Calculation
Amaze
and mystify your friends! Benjamin has performed his "art of rapid
mental calculation" for audiences of all ages and levels of
mathematical sophistication, and now he reveals his secrets to you.
Actually, most of these calculation and memorization techniques are
fairly commonly known, but Benjamin explains how to perform them to
great effect. He uses simple algebraic proofs to show how the tricks
work and often adds an anecdote about how he "discovered" an
interesting trick. This is a book to ignite mathematical confidence and
curiosity. A word of warning, though: despite the subtitle, it will
take some dedicated practice to master these tricks. For most
collections.
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Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care
Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care delivers practical coverage of behavioral and interactional issues that occur between provider and patient in everday clincial practice. You will learn how to deliver bad news, how to conduct an effective patient interview, how to clinically manage behavioral issues in the dying patient, the principles of medical professionalism, behavioral issues in men’s and women’s heatlh, and much more.
This book contains information on:
- "brain problem" - hypothesis of "embedment" and neurophilosophical model;
- neuroepistemological account of the brain;
- "philosophy of the brain" - empirical hypothesis of the brain,
- epistemology of the brain
- ontology of the brain
Specialised English for advanced users. Fascinating subject!
"This handbook gives an overview of some of the recent developments in semantic theory. The articles are written by well-known semanticists, who are invariably at the top of their field in the domain at hand. This leads to high quality papers that are almost without exception a great pleasure to read......I am sure the book will be widely used for reference and initial introduction to new topics by both researchers and students."Henriette De Swart, University of Utrecht
Interest in morphology has undergone rapid growth over the past two decades and the area is now seen as crucially important, both in relation to other aspects of grammar and in relation to other disciplines. The Handbook of Morphology brings together articles by authors at the forefront of this research effort. The chapters deal with traditional issues such as inflection, derivation, compounding, productivity, and various aspects of the interface question, the relationship between morphology and phonology, syntax, and semantics. Other chapters offer briefer discussions of specific questions that have more recently become the focus of attention. A further set of chapters explores the role of morphology in a wider perspective: language change, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.The Handbook concludes with a set of morphological sketches of a typologically and genetically diverse set of languages, each illustrating one or more particularly interesting morphological traits.
"I'm enormously impressed by the scope and depth of The Handbook of Morphology. The coverage is broadly inclusive, without sacrificing depth in the discussion of individual issues. The range of topics covered shows us just how far the study of words, their forms and their structures has penetrated into the core of linguistics since the 1960s, when many thought there was no distinct content to morphology, and everything interesting was either syntax or phonology." Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University
