A revolutionary, introductory text for courses on modern logic. While the basic rudiments of formal and informal logical are all clearly described here, it also focuses students on the real world, where the discipline of logic adds substance and meaning to all kinds of human discourse. Everything from puzzles, paradoxes, and mathematical proofs, to campaign debate excerpts, government regulations, and cartoons are used to show how logic is put to work by philosophers, mathematicians, advertisers, computer scientists, politicians, and others. As the book alternately discusses, instructs, questions, teases, and challenges, readers will find themselves absorbing the fundamentals of the discipline, becoming fluent in the language of logic, understanding how logic works in the real world, and enjoying logic's ability to entertain, surprise, subvert, and enlighten.

Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic (Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences)

Computers & Technology

Henle, Jim

Tymoczko, Tom

Computer Science

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Family Constellation: It's Effects on Personality and Social Behavior

Family Constellation: It's Effects on Personality and Social Behavior

Self-Help

Walter Toman, Ph.D.

Relationships

...an easy guide for those interested in a modern approach to incorporating health promotion services into their setting...references are up-to-date, with appropriate recognition of the major contributors from the past.

Talking About Health and Wellness with Patients: Integrating Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Into Your Practice

Jonas, Steven

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Narrative Gerontology focuses on the possibilities of the life as story metaphor in the field of aging. Effectively integrating theory, research, and practice, this volume emphasizes the ways narrative approaches such as guided autobiography and life review can be integrated into practice to improve the quality of care and the quality of life for older adults, especially those with chronic illness and those near the end of their lives. Professionals within the fields of gerontology, social work, nursing, medicine, counseling, family therapy, and occupational therapy will all find valuable insights on how to incorporate narrative approaches into their work.

Narrative Gerontology- Theory, Research, And Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Dryden, Windy

Mental Health

Within the field of clinical psychology, the term borderline personality disorder was developed to fulfill a diagnostic need and has come to possess specific stereotypes and negative meanings. Because the term borderline is an emotionally charged word, it can lead to a less-than-accurate view of the situation or patient being described, thus presenting a challenge to even the most experienced therapists and becoming one of the most complex disorders to treat. Through the use of one case study, however, experts in borderline personality disorders have put this difficulty at ease. Applying a variety of modalities to identify treatment goals, including: selecting assessment tools, conceptualizing progression, pinpointing pitfalls, and developing techniques, diagnosing and treating BPD has created a more successful therapeutic result.

Comparative Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder

Introduction to Mathematics for Life Scientists (Biomathematics, Vol. 2)

Science & Math

Batschelet, Edward

Mathematics

This is an introduction to advanced analysis at the beginning graduate level that blends a modern presentation with concrete examples and applications, in particular in the areas of calculus of variations and partial differential equations. The book does not strive for abstraction for its own sake, but tries rather to impart a working knowledge of the key methods of contemporary analysis, in particular those that are also relevant for application in physics. It provides a streamlined and quick introduction to the fundamental concepts of Banach space and Lebesgue integration theory and the basic notions of the calculus of variations, including Sobolev space theory.The new edition contains additional material on the qualitative behavior of solutions of ordinary differential equations, some further details on Lp and Sobolev functions, partitions of unity and a brief introduction to abstract measure theory.

Postmodern Analysis

Jost, Jürgen

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