When the other kids make fun of Louie and call his father the junkman, his dad explains that the socalled junk he loves can take you right out of this worldwith a little imagination. So Louie builds the spaceship Imagination I and blasts off into his own space odyssey.
The Art of Teaching Music takes up important aspects of the art of music teaching ranging from organization to serving as conductor to dealing with the disconnect between the ideal of university teaching and the reality in the classroom. Writing for both established teachers and instructors on the rise, Estelle R. Jorgensen opens a conversation about the life and work of the music teacher. The author regards music teaching as interrelated with the rest of lived life, and her themes encompass pedagogical skills as well as matters of character, disposition, value, personality, and musicality.
Econometrics: Alchemy or Science? Essays in Econometric Methodology
A text on econometric modeling in economics, analyzing the various conflicting methods in use today, reviewing the benefits and drawbacks of each. Uses empirical applications, Monte Carlo simulations, and theoretical and econometric analyses to determine best practice as regards the competing approaches. Softcover.
A fight against pseudo-science is held by many scientists of the 20th century. In this book, Carl Sagan Sagan provides a skeptical analysis of several kinds of superstition, fraud, pseudoscience and religious beliefs, such as gods, witches, UFOs and faith healing. However, based on "some experimental support," Sagan calls for serious scrutiny of a handful of seemingly inexplicable phenomena such as reincarnation and psychokinesis, not because he regards them as likely to be true, but because anomalous data deserves close scientific study.
