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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163885103321

Autore

Jedding Kenneth

Titolo

Higher Education : On Life, Landing a Job, and Everything Else They Didn't Teach You in College

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gordonsville : , : Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-60529-064-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages)

Disciplina

646.70084/2

Soggetti

Young adults--Life skills guides

College graduates--Life skills guides

College graduates--Employment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Today's college grads face a new set of challenges brought on by a sluggish job market, changing technology, and staggering amounts of debt. The rules have changed since their parents were in school, leaving young adults at a loss for advice that addresses their immediate concerns as well as the big-picture questions with which each generation of young adults must contend. Life coach Ken Jedding has spent the past decade talking one-on-one with college students and graduates across the country in his workshops and lectures. In Higher Education, he provides a fresh, modern guidebook to postcollegiate life that addresses the issues and concerns he hears voiced most often. From the lofty What is my purpose in life? to the practical How can I land my dream job? to the increasingly common (if somewhat terrifying) How did I wind up back in my parents' house?, Jedding's valuable insight, wisdom, and humor provide a much-needed roadmap for the journey that is only just beginning.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780725403321

Autore

Winitzki Sergei

Titolo

Eternal inflation [[electronic resource] /] / Sergei Winitzki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2009

ISBN

1-282-76036-X

9786612760365

981-283-240-8

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 218 p. : ill. (some col.)

Disciplina

523.1/8

Soggetti

Expanding universe

Quantum cosmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Inflationary cosmology. 2.1. The inflationary paradigm. 2.2. Slow-roll inflation and attractors -- 3. Eternal inflation. 3.1. Predictions in eternal inflation. 3.2. Physical justifications of the semiclassical picture -- 4. Stochastic approach to inflation. 4.1. Eternal inflation of random walk type. 4.2. Presence of eternal inflation -- 5. Models with bubble nucleation -- 6. The measure problem and proposed solutions. 6.1. Observer-based measures. 6.2. Regularization for a single reheating surface. 6.3. Regularization for multiple types of reheating surfaces. 6.4. Youngness paradox and "Boltzmann brains" -- 7. The RV measure : first look. 7.1. Reheating-volume cutoff. 7.2. RV cutoff in slow-roll inflation -- 8. The RV measure for random-walk inflation. 8.1. Preliminary results. 8.2. Overview of the results. 8.3. Derivations -- 9. The RV measure for the landscape. 9.1. Regulating the number of terminal bubbles. 9.2. Regulating the total number of bubbles. 9.3. A toy landscape. 9.4. A general landscape -- 10. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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