A Game of Soldiers

Literature & Fiction

stephen-miller

Genre Fiction

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

The Last Train To Kazan

The Last Train to Kazan

Harper

Miller, Zoology, 2019, 11e, Student Edition

Zoology, Eleventh Edition, c.2019, 9780076896264, 0076896269

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

McGraw-Hill,USA

Conversation: A History of a Declining Art

Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline. Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in The Age of Conversation” and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Yale University Press

The story of the rise and fall of the art of conversation in Western civilization Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline. Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in “The Age of Conversation” and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.

The Art of Getting It Wrong

HarperCollins Christian

The thoroughly updated New Edition of this best-selling Radiology Requisites™ volume concisely synthesizes all of today's core knowledge about cardiac imaging. Clinically oriented coverage encompasses everything from basic principles through the latest diagnostic imaging techniques, equipment, and technology. New coverage includes MR imaging of cardiac abnormalities, electron beam CT, fetal echocardiography, and much more. Practice-proven tips and excellent problem-solving discussions are accompanied by more than 800 images of the highest quality. The result is an outstanding review source for certification or recertification, as well as a highly user-friendly resource for everyday clinical practice.
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<li>Covers valvular, ischemic, pericardial, myocardial, congenital, and thoracic/aortic heart disease. </li>
<li>Describes all of the imaging modalities currently being used (plain film, ultrasound, CT, and MR), and discusses potential future developments. </li>
<li>Delivers more than 800 outstanding illustrations that demonstrate a full range of cardiac imaging approaches and findings. </li>
<li>Offers numerous outlines, tables, "pearls," and boxed material for easy reading and reference.</li>
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<li>Offers a significantly revised chapter on MR imaging, with greatly expanded coverage of cardiac abnormalities. </li>
<li>Includes brand-new coverage of electron beam CT. </li>
<li>Delivers a completely new chapter on Fetal Echocardiography.</li>
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Cardiac Imaging: The Requisites

Medical Books

Medicine

Mosby

How does a statistical model differ from a mathematical model? What are the differences among the sample distribution, the sampling distribution, and the population distribution? In an experiment, what effect does the sampling method have on the results? What are the implications of the use of processes of random selection and random assignment? Can a small sample yield accurate estimates of population parameters? This book examines five big ideas and twenty-four related essential understandings for teaching statistics in grades 9-12. The authors distinguish mathematical and statistical models, explore distributions as descriptions of variability in data, focus on the fundamentals of testing hypotheses to draw conclusions from data, highlight the importance of the data collection method, and recognize the need to examine bias, precision, and sampling method in evaluating statistical estimators. Recognizing that analyzing data is an important part of understanding the world, the authors discuss the growth of students ideas about statistics and examine challenges to teaching, learning, and assessment. They intersperse their discussion with questions for teachers reflection.

Developing Essential Understanding of Statistics for Teaching Mathematics in Grades 9–12

ROXY PECK

Rose Mary Zbiek

Rob Gould

NCTM

Melissa Boston, Frederick Dillon, Margaret Smith, and Stephen Miller Are you ready to take your teaching to the next level? Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9 12 offers a coherent set of professional learning experiences designed to foster teachers understanding of the effective mathematics teaching practices and their ability to apply those practices in their own classrooms. The book examines in depth what each teaching practice would look like in a high school classroom, with narrative cases, classroom videos, and real student work, presenting a rich array of experiences that bring the practices to life. Chapters are sequenced to scaffold teachers exploration of the effective mathematics teaching practices and furnish activities and materials for hands-on learning experiences around each individual teaching practice and across the set of the eight effective practices as a whole. Specific examples of each practice are presented in context, providing real-life instantiations of what the practice looks and sounds like in the classroom, with a careful analysis that links the practice to student learning and equity. The reader is invited to personally engage in two types of activities that run throughout the book: Analyzing Teaching and Learning, in which tasks or situations are presented to the reader to consider, work out, and reflect on, and Taking Action in Your Classroom, in which concrete suggestions are provided for exploring specific teaching practices in the classroom. Tools, such as a lesson plan template, a task analysis guide, and five practices for orchestrating productive discussions are offered to assist teachers in applying the ideas discussed in the book to their own practices. For teachers who aspire to ambitious teaching that will provide each and every one of their students with more opportunities to experience mathematics as meaningful, challenging, and worthwhile, Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9 12 is certain to be your number one go-to resource.

Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9–12

Margaret Smith

Melissa Boston

Frederick Dillon

Special Interest Groups in American Politics

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

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