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Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret various brief intelligence tests Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests efficiently presents, in the popular Essentials format, concise information on the range of brief intelligence tests that are used most often in school and clinical practices and provides an overview and definition of brief intelligence testing as well as its uses and limitations. Sample evaluations using brief intelligence...

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In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a...

Throughout history there have been societies of closed membership and covert purpose. From the Knights Templars to the freemasons, an intimate look at the inner workings of secret societies. Average User Rating: Be the first to write a review Write a Review Name: Rating: - 1 2 3 4 5 Review

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends.The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which...

This paper, which is just over 5 pages and utilizes 3 sources in MLA format, is a brief analysis of how the language of sports is similar to that of warfare. In it, the author analyzes how sports fans have become increasingly violent and how the language used to refer to sporting events reflects this shift. The author suggests that warfare itself is often described in "game" terms and how games have become more warlike. The author theorizes that perhaps this trend, in a time when wars are few...

This five-page undergraduate paper examines the book, Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler, and discusses the dynamics of Stalin?s purges. The author notes how Stalin justified the Great Purge and used the show trials of the old revolutionaries who had been defeated in the power struggles of the late nineteen-twenties and early nineteen-thirties to solidify his personal rule over the Soviet Union. Before the nightmare of betrayal and self-destruction was over, Soviet society had been transformed...

Pages: 224, Edition: 3 Revised, Hardcover, Oxford University Press, USA

Arco Publishing Company 1974, hardcover, 8 3/4 x 11 1/2", 120 pages, black & white and color illustrations

Times and News Publishing 1964. Hard-cover, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4", 255 pages, B&W photos. Part One contains a history of the stereograph, the stereograph in America, and the collection of stereographs. Part Two is an alphabetical listing of forty categories of stereo views. Part Three is comprised of a checklist of photographers and publishers. No collectors library would be complete without this book. Book is in good condition.

If you think you know a lot about World War II, challenge yourself with this instructive and intriguing book of questions. Covering every theatre of the war, the people, weapons, ships, aircraft, and armies, this book will test the knowledge of even the most dedicated history buff. Questions range from Pfc. (easiest) to General (the tough ones), and everything between: What was the most common rifle used by the United States Marines at the beginning of the Pacific war? What was the name of General...

"A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel . If words, the main substance of human relations, are so potent for harm, how equally powerful they can be to help if used with disciplined knowledge and understanding. Nowhere does this simple truth apply more certainly than in the behavior...

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as...

Morgan & Morgan 1979. Soft-cover, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4", 318 pages, generously illustrated. Considered the best book on the subject. Book is in very good condition. Inside pages very clean, cover has minor rubbing.

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An engaging account of humanity's growing fascination with orchids from ancient times onward, together with a biographical gallery of 50 great scientists, naturalists, and explorers who contributed to our knowledge of orchids. The nomenclature and bibliography have been updated for this edition.

Description: 10" x 7", 307 pp, copy is in about average used condition, profusely illustrated in black and white throughout.