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Check out these books below by Cambridge University Press.
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Frame It Again - New Tools for Rational Decision-Making
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| Frame It Again New Tools for Rational Decision-Making |
Framing is a powerful tool for redirecting public discussions about some of the most polarizing contemporary issues, such as gun control, abortion, and climate change. Learn effective problem-solving and decision-making to get the better of difficult dilemmas.
- Presents a controversial and important central claim: framing effects can be tools for rational problem-solving
- Shows how rational frames can help solve practical dilemmas in personal and social life
- Develop a new framework for thinking about internal and collective conflicts
- Discusses a wide range of examples from contemporary life, the history of literature, philosophy, and psychology
- Explains all the theoretical concepts and important experiments without jargon and using the author's trademark clarity
Date Published: November 2020
Building and Sustaining a Teaching Career - Strategies for Professional Experience, Wellbeing and Mindful Practice
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| Building and Sustaining a Teaching Career Strategies for Professional Experience, Wellbeing and Mindful Practice |
Professional experience in initial teacher education programs can be both a challenging and rewarding experience. As student teachers take their first steps in the classroom, they often encounter stresses that compromise their teaching and learning. Within this context, well-being, resilience and self-efficacy are critical to their success...
Drawing upon a combination of teaching experience and education research, Narelle Lemon and Sharon McDonough present thoughtful, practical approaches that equip pre-service teachers with the necessary skills and knowledge for embarking on a successful teaching career.
- Combines emerging scholarly discourses around mindfulness and student teacher well-being with practical strategies that are readily useable in classroom contexts
- Features a friendly and approachable writing style that translates complex theoretical terminology in an easily digestible and engaging manner
- Draws close parallels with everyday teacher student experiences through the inclusion of 'real-world' voices from the classroom
Date Published: October 2020
Origametry - Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding
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| Origametry Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding |
Origami, the art of paper folding, has a rich mathematical theory. Early investigations go back to at least the 1930s, but the twenty-first century has seen a remarkable blossoming of the mathematics of folding. Besides its use in describing origami and designing new models, it is also finding real-world applications from building nano-scale robots to deploying large solar arrays in space...
This book is an essential reference for researchers of origami mathematics and its applications in physics, engineering, and design. Educators, students, and enthusiasts will also find much to enjoy in this fascinating account of the mathematics of folding.
- The first complete reference on the mathematics of origami
- Of interest to professionals and students in mathematics, physics and engineering, as well as educators and origami enthusiasts
- Contains more than 180 figures to illustrate the constructions described
- Numerous 'diver
Date Published: October 2020
Thinking Probabilistically - Stochastic Processes, Disordered Systems, and Their Applications
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| Thinking Probabilistically Stochastic Processes, Disordered Systems, and Their Applications |
Probability theory has diverse applications in a plethora of fields, including physics, engineering, computer science, chemistry, biology and economics. This book will familiarize students with various applications of probability theory, stochastic modeling and random processes, using examples from all these disciplines and more...
The wide range of areas covered - never before discussed together in a unified fashion – includes Markov processes and random walks, Langevin and Fokker–Planck equations, noise, generalized central limit theorem and extreme values statistics, random matrix theory and percolation theory.
- Explains the power of probability theory both as a conceptual framework and as a tool across mathematics and physics
- Avoids using unnecessary technicalities, keeping the mathematical prerequisites to a minimum
- Contains numerous and diverse examples of interdisciplinary applications of probability theory
Publication planned for: December 2020
Ethical Education - Towards an Ecology of Human Development
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| Ethical Education Towards an Ecology of Human Development |
Part I develops the underlying theory of ethics and education; Part II focuses on the relevant pedagogical principles, and Part III provides illustrations of emergent innovative ethical educational practices in worldwide schools. Against a backdrop of divisiveness and apathy, the innovative practices described in this book show how a new vision for ethical education might be centred around caring for students' well-being.
- Introduces a fresh approach to ethical education that reframes pedagogy in terms of human relationships, mutual caring and well-being of students
- Provides readers with an accessible but sophisticated theory and explores the implications of the theory for educational practices
- Includes the voices of renowned international contributors from a range of fields, including philosophy, education, sociology, psychology, religious studies and spirituality
Date Published: July 2020
Heidegger's Moral Ontology
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| Heidegger's Moral Ontology |
Heidegger's Moral Ontology offers the first comprehensive account of the ethical issues that underwrite Heidegger's efforts to develop a novel account of human existence. Drawing from a wide array of source materials from the period leading up to the publication of Being and Time (1919–1927), and in conversation with ancient, modern, and contemporary contributions to moral philosophy...
This lively book will appeal to all who are interested in Heidegger's early phenomenology and in his thought more generally, as well as to those interested in the nature, scope, and foundations of ethical life.
- Proposes a novel account of the roots of Heidegger's ontology
- This book is the first comprehensive account of the ethical motifs embedded in Heidegger's early thought
- Brings Heidegger's early philosophy into fruitful dialogue with the history of ethics
Date Published: September 2020
Essentials of Pattern Recognition - An Accessible Approach
Essentials of Pattern Recognition
An Accessible Approach
- Focuses on core concepts to ensure mastery of the fundamentals
- Presents a strategy for problem-solving so that students can solve unfamiliar problems
- Features an abundance of thought-provoking real-world issues and exercises to help students connect theory with practice
- Patient, step-by-step explication of algorithms so that students understand which to apply in which situation
Date Published: November 2020
Essential Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists
Essential Mathematics for
Engineers and Scientists
This text is geared toward students who have an undergraduate degree or extensive coursework in engineering or the physical sciences and who wish to develop their understanding of the essential topics of applied mathematics. The methods covered in the chapters form the core of analysis in engineering and the physical sciences...
Detailed and numerous worked problems help to ensure a clear and well-paced introduction to applied mathematics. Computational challenge problems at the end of each chapter provide students with the opportunity for hands-on learning and help to ensure mastery of the concepts. Adaptable to one- and two-semester courses.
- Ideally suited for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in engineering or the physical sciences seeking to learn the essential topics of applied mathematics
- Clear, accessible, and engaging, with numerous worked examples and challenge questions to provide practice and ensure mastery
- Includes over 430 exercises, within chapters as well as at end of chapters; solutions to over half of the exercises are available to instructors online
- Provides computational challenge exercise for each chapter, with MATHEMATICA and MATLAB® solutions available online for instructors
- Offers presentation lecture slides for two dozen key topics
Date Published: May 2020
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