Stuart A : 129 books
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
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...
Storming Zion
Government Raids on Religious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
While scholars, media, and the public may be aware of a few extraordinary government raids on religious communities, such as the U.S. federal raid on the Branch Davidians in 1993, very few people are aware of the scope of these raids or the frequency with which they occur. Inspired by the Texas State...
by Stuart A. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great thinkers" who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research. Minds such as Stephen Hawking philosophize about the functions and nature of the universe, the implications of our existence, and other...
We're All A Little Bit Crazy
Removing the Stigma of Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
If the mental health of humanity were placed on a continuum, you would find about 2% insane and about 2% with optimal psychological health. Where does this leave the rest of us? After 30 years studying this topic, psychologist Dr. Stuart Ross has come to the conclusion that "We're All A Little Bit Crazy."...
Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials
The Critical Quantitative Methods and Tools in Finance
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
An essential guide to corporate finance
Understanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk.
Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering...
Reinventing the Sacred
A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing biosphere?
In this bold and fresh look...
by Nicholas B. Davies, John R. Krebs, Stuart A. West
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In this fourth edition the text has been completely revised, with new chapters and many new illustrations and full colour photographs. The theme, once again, is the influence of natural selection on behaviour – an animal's struggle...
Wisdom from a Rainforest
The Spiritual Journey of an Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly. Wisdom from a Rainforest...
Building Bridges
The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian perspective that comprehends paradox as the condition for preserving an intrapsychic and relational "potential...
A World Beyond Physics
The Emergence and Evolution of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what the laws of physics can explain-of the progression from a complex chemical environment to molecular reproduction, metabolism and to early protocells, and...
Multicellularity
Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.
The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities...
by Stuart A. Klugman, Harry H. Panjer, Gordon E. Willmot
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, Fourth Edition. This volume is organised around the principle that much of actuarial science consists of the construction and analysis of mathematical models which describe the process by which funds flow into and out of an insurance system.
Loss Models
Further Topics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
An essential resource for constructing and analyzing advanced actuarial models
Loss Models: Further Topics presents extended coverage of modeling through the use of tools related to risk theory, loss distributions, and survival models. The book uses these methods to construct and evaluate actuarial...
by Stuart A. Klugman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019