Double Your Learning Power: Master the Techniques of Successful Memory and Recall
Do you have trouble remembering names, faces, telephone numbers or foreign words? This excellent guidebook provides short-cut techniques for essential memory skills: mnemonics, reading quickly while remembering more, tools for scoring well on examinations. Drawing on recent psychological research about the learning process, Dudley adapts these insights into a practical set of exercises that anyone can master.
How to Lie with Statistics is Darrell Huff's perennially popular introduction to statistics for the general reader. Written in 1954, it is a brief, breezy, illustrated volume outlining the common errors, both intentional and unintentional, associated with the interpretation of statistics, and how these errors can lead to biased or inaccurate conclusions. Although a number of more recent versions have been released, the original edition contained humorous, witty illustrations by Irving Geis.
• COVER: The Fire This Time - Fierce winds and years of drought put the torch to hundreds of square miles in California and displace nearly a million people. How we got here and what--if anything--we can do
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: When Lite Gets Heavy - Low-fat foods can pack a high-fat wallop if you don't look out for some hidden dangers
• SOCIETY: Floating Your Own Boat - The recent surge in solo sports has put kayaking into the mainstream
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Elitist, Moi? - Tom Stoppard isn't trying to be highbrow. To prove it, his new play is about rock music ... and revolution
Hillbilly A Cultural History Of An American Icon
Cultural historians have focused considerable attention in recent years
on the construction of whiteness as a key to ascribing social and
economic status in American society over time. Now Anthony Harkins
extends the discussion of the politics of racial identity to a
long-disparaged group within, but somehow not of, the dominant white
culture—the hillbilly. A mythic caricature representing backwardness
and degeneracy, the hillbilly image offered one of the most persistent
and pervasive representations of American otherness in the twentieth
century. Harkins traces the icon from its origins in the nineteenth
century to its recent manifestations in movies and television, but he
concentrates his analysis on the rise of hillbilly stereotypes in the
popular culture of the 1930s and 1940s, especially in the
commercialization of country music and in graphic cartoon images such
as Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner.
Eye Movements
Eye-movement recording has become the method of
choice in a wide variety of disciplines investigating how the mind and
brain work. This volume brings together recent, high-quality
eye-movement research from many different disciplines and, in doing so,
presents a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in
eye-movement research.
Sections include the history of
eye-movement research, physiological and clinical studies of eye
movements, transsaccadic integration, computational modelling of eye
movements, reading, spoken language processing, attention and scene
perception, and eye-movements in natural environments.
* Includes recent research from a variety of disciplines
* Divided into sections based on topic areas, with an overview chapter beginning each section
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Through the study of eye movements we can learn about the human mind,
and eye movement recording has become the method of choice in many
disciplines
