A critical read offering fresh, objective look at US diversity. Well organized with abundant and useful information easy to find.
Short-term visitors to the U.S. will find advice for surviving customs and immigration, finding an apartment, doing business, obtaining health care, and navigating the supermarket, bank and post office. If you plan to stay longer, you will find practical pointers for getting along at work, school, and at home; buying a house; making and keeping American friends; and understanding dominant American values in a diverse and complex society. Living in the U.S.A. is a comprehensive guide to attitudes, customs, manners and daily life in the United States.
The material on this disc provides comprehensive coverage of the essential Geography material, understanding of which is vital for success. Immediate feedback on understanding is provided by test questions, all of which have a model solution available if required. Progress within each topic is reported on the final screen. Exam-style questions, with model solutions are provided in each section.
Some Contents:
Lost in Microbial Space
Caroline Ash, John Foley, and Elizabeth Pennisi
The Inner Lives of Sponges
Gretchen Vogel
Symbiotic ties, bioactive compounds, and mysterious distributions of bacteria characterize these ancient invertebrates.
Confusing Kinships
John Bohannon
Understanding microbial evolution and ecology rests on a solid classification system, but coming up with one is difficult.
David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the
definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English
language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and
against the "sophistry and illusion"of religiously inspired
philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash.
The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought,
reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate
understanding of the physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either
sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience,
recognizing our animal nature and the limits of reason. Hume's calm
and open-minded skepticism thus aims to provide a new basis for
science, liberating us from the "superstition" of false metaphysics and relegion. His Enquiry remains one of the best introductions to the study of philosophy, and his edition places it in its historical
and philosophical context.
"Because the book is written by an intelligent theorising practitioner,
students of both practical 'journalism' and theoretical 'media studies'
should find it invaluable as a reference work, a first-aid kit and a
revision tool."
--Harriet Gilbert, City University
Never has the media been so critically regarded as at the present time. Documenting many areas of debate and dispute between journalists, the media, public organizations and politicians, Wilson identifies why conflicts will continue. Understanding Journalism
covers issues that range in topic from government bias and censorship,
to animals rights and obscenity. This informative work is a valuable
guide to all those involved in journalism and the media. Based on the
first hand experience of a journalist, it covers all areas that make
journalism controversial in the eye of the general public.
