M Simon: 159 books
Diophantine Analysis
Course Notes from a Summer School
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This collection of course notes from a number theory summer school focus on aspects of Diophantine Analysis, addressed to Master and doctoral students as well as everyone who wants to learn the subject. The topics range from Baker’s method of bounding linear forms in logarithms (authored by Sanda...
Mapping "Race"
Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
Forensic Psychology Consultation in Child Custody Litigation
A Handbook for Work Product Review, Case Preparation, and Expert Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The first comprehensive examination of the increasingly important role of forensic psychologists in consulting and expert witness testimony in child custody litigation, this book offers practical advice on understanding the critical psychological dynamics often found in child custody cases as...
by M.J. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
For creative writer, artist, and librarian Elizabeth Rinehart, the world of make-believe has always been a source of magic, wonder, and comfort. Beth's imaginary world is a pleasant, waking dream. Little does she know her dream has taken on a life of its own in an alternate universe.When...
by Simon M. Huttegger
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
According to Bayesian epistemology, rational learning from experience is consistent learning, that is learning should incorporate new information consistently into one's old system of beliefs. Simon M. Huttegger argues that this core idea can be transferred to situations where the learner's informational...
by M.J. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
True-crime writer Paige Malone is used to murder, mystery, and suspense…writing about them, that is. When she finds herself in the middle of a real-life ghost story, however, the normally quick-witted femme de lettres learns that being a character in a mystery isn’t quite what she expected.Haunted...
Politik in den USA
Institutionen - Akteure - Themen
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Die amerikanische Politik ist gegenwärtig so umstritten wie selten zuvor. Umso dringender ist eine profunde Kenntnis des politischen Systems der USA und seiner Funktionsweise notwendig. Das Buch widmet sich in drei fundierten Teilen den wesentlichen Institutionen und Bereichen US-amerikanischer Politik....
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...
by Ronald M. Peters, Jr., Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. In Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics, Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress,...
The Science of Sin
The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies (and Why They Are So Good For You)
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Pride, lust, gluttony, greed, envy, sloth, and anger.
They’re considered “deadly” because of their capacity to generate other evils. The truth is, we all sin and we do it all the time—in fact, usually several times over before breakfast! But human behavior, argues social psychologist...
by Simon Critchley, Todd Kesselman, Carl Cederström
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rely on philosophy for interpretation and understanding; they are already independent practices and sites of sensuous meaning production. As Elvis...
by Julian M. Barker, Simon J. Mills, Simon L. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
The second edition of the hugely popular The Clinical Anaesthesia Viva Book builds on the success of the first by providing a thorough review of short and long case questions typically given to Final FRCA viva candidates. An introductory chapter gives invaluable practical advice on preparation for...
Family Romance, Family Secrets
Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This fascinating book, which presents an early psychoanalyst’s session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offers a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century. Accompanying these notes are insightful commentaries...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...