J Newman: 35 books

Book cover of Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Shira Elqayam, Jean Baratgin
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016

Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality. This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide...
Book cover of Debugging Game History

Debugging Game History

A Critical Lexicon

by Mikael Jakobsson, Nick Montfort, Erkki Huhtamo
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
Book cover of Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013

Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution. "Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...
Book cover of Against Their Will

Against Their Will

The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America

by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, Gregory J. Dober
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived...
Book cover of Ending Poverty in America

Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Book cover of The Mind of Edgar Warson
by J S S Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015

After succumbing to guilt an eccentric decides to become a man of action.  Abandoning his career as a medical assistant Warson begins the path of a vigilante.  With his new pursuit as a vigilante he is met with a rising tyrant.  It is a battle of philosophy and cunning as the two contrasting...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa
by Dr Ranjana Bhattacharjee, Dr Brigitte Laliberté, Dr Chris Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018

There is a growing demand for cocoa. However, cultivation is dependent on ageing trees with low yields and increasing vulnerability to disease. There is growing concern about the environmental impact of cultivation in areas soil health and biodiversity. There is therefore an urgent need to make cocoa...
Book cover of Jewish Men Pray

Jewish Men Pray

Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources

by Daniel S. Alexander, Alexandri, Bezalel Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Book cover of Sport and the Neoliberal University

Sport and the Neoliberal University

Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

by Henry Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, Ryan King-White
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.  The...
Book cover of Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018

Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
Book cover of Modelling Population Dynamics

Modelling Population Dynamics

Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods

by P. Besbeas, K. B. Newman, S. T. Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014

This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Book cover of Ethics, Literature, and Theory

Ethics, Literature, and Theory

An Introductory Reader

by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
Book cover of Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health

by Adriane Leveen, MSW, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin. Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the...
Book cover of Sustainability in Higher Education

Sustainability in Higher Education

Stories and Strategies for Transformation

by Wendy B. Anderson, David Whiteman, Richard Gragg
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs. In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...
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