athematical Challenge Problems with Solution Strategies. Problem-mathics is a collection of 25 mathematical problems with solution strategies, designed to challenge as well as to teach the reader to become a better problem solver. The problems represent the areas of arithmetic, geometry, algebra, number theory, and logic. The book is intended for students in grades 6-12. Problem-mathics contains two sections. In Section I the 25 challenge problems are presented in situational contxts. Section II contains the extensive problem analyses.
When Research Goes Off the Rails: Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It
Few behavioral or health science studies proceed seamlessly. This refreshingly candid guide presents firsthand vignettes of obstacles on the bumpy road of research and offers feasible, easy-to-implement solutions. Contributors from a range of disciplines describe real-world problems at each stage of a quantitative or qualitative research project—from gaining review board approval to collecting and analyzing data—and discuss how these problems were resolved.
Quantum Theory of Conducting Matter: Superconductivity
Major superconducting properties including zero resistance, Meissner effect, sharp phase change, flux quantization, excitation energy gap, Josephson effects are covered and microscopically explained, using quantum statistical mechanical calculations. First treated are the 2D superconductivity and then the quantum Hall effects. Included are exercise-type problems for each section. Readers can grasp the concepts covered in the book by following the worked-through problems.
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom (Bertrand Russell memorial lectures)
From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky's early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics.
Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in Vietnam.
Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures
Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of this knowledge?
