Boxed CD-ROM with booklet guides the user through the sounds and skills of lung auscultation. Running time is 60 minutes and presents actual lung sounds. Booklet expands on the content in the CD with visual reinforcement. Includes review and critical thinking questions, new or redrawn illustrations, and more.
Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern AmericaThinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
Friedrich Nietzsche's complex connection to Charles Darwin has been much explored, and both scholarly and popular opinions have tended to assume a convergence in their thinking. In this study, Dirk Johnson challenges that assumption and takes seriously Nietzsche's own explicitly stated "anti-Darwinism.
If you are a manager or someone aspiring to be a manager, at whatever stage you are in your study of systems thinking, this book is designed to help. If you are new to the ideas, then it should serve as a solid introduction. If you are familiar with a few of the ideas, but know little about how they are related or can be used to manage organizations, then the book will give you a more rigorous understanding of holism and how to use systems ideas in practice.
The postmodern condition, in which instrumentalism finally usurps all other considerations, has produced a kind of intellectual paralysis in the world of education. The authors of this book show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education, arguing that educational theory is currently at an impasse.
