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UNINA9910467786203321 |
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Staphylococcus aureus antibiotic resistance / / editor, Stephanie J. Dancer |
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London, England : , : Future Medicine Ltd, , 2014 |
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1-78084-370-4 |
1-78084-369-0 |
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1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations |
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Clinical Insights, , 2047-332X |
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Staphylococcus aureus |
Staphylococcus aureus infections |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910141255603321 |
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Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
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How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
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1-283-59909-0 |
9786613911544 |
1-118-31500-6 |
1-118-31499-9 |
1-118-31501-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Critical thinking |
Intellect |
Knowledge, Sociology of |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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How to Improve Your Mind: Twenty Keys to Unlock the Modern World; Contents; List of Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap; Wherein I Seek Rapport with the Reader; Key Concepts and Anti-Keys; Universities and the Knowledge Trap; Substitute for a Diary; Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong; 2 Logic and Moral Debate - Attacks on Blacks; Blacks and Blackness; Taking the Hypothetical Seriously; Abortion and Its Slogans; Women and Femininity; The Unborn Mosquito; 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies - No Private Clubs; Tautologies |
Tautologies Pretending to be Something ElseFalsification; Tautologies Used to Include or Exclude; Is Evolution a Tautology?; 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences - be Judgmental; Facts and Values; The Relevance of Facts; The Nihilist Fallacy; The Tolerance School Fallacy; The One-Way Street; Indignation and Ignorance; 5 But that is Unnatural |
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- Words Best Never Said; The Criterion of Being in Accord with Nature; The Criterion of Non-Interference with Nature; The Criterion of Imitating Nature; The Criterion of Preserving Nature; Using "Nature" Sensibly; The Limitations of Philosophy |
Part 2 The Truth about People6 Random Sample - Quality Not Size; Quality Not Size; Statistical Significance; Why Some Prefer Bad Polls; Taking Bad Polls Without Realizing It; 7 Intelligence Quotient - Hanging the Intellectually Disabled; Understanding IQ Scores; Adjusting IQ Scores; Death Row; The Significance of IQ Scores; 8 Intelligence Quotient - and the Black/White IQ Gap; Correlations and Regression to the Mean; Uses and Abuses of Regression; Regression and Race; Regression not a Cause; 9 Control Group - How Studying People Changes Them; Hidden Factors |
Sugar Pills and the "Hypnotic State"Doctors and Pharmacists; Control Group; Good Luck; Making You Own Luck; Unavoidable Bad Luck; 10 The Sociologist's Fallacy - Ignoring the Real World; Matching for SES; Matching Professions; The Easiest Kind of Matching; Under-Identified Models; Marx and Popper; Marx and History; Meritocracy and History; Concepts Plus Arithmetic; Part 3 The Market and Its Church; 11 Creating a Market - Not a Frankenstein; The Market and Racial Profiles; What is Money?; When Does a Market Exist?; Selecting Who Can Participate: Free Trade? |
Selecting Tradable Goods, Services, and InformationPrices, Costs, Income, and Profits; 12 Market Forces - How they Take their Revenge; Rent Controls; Schools Vouchers; Regulating Prices in General; A Free Good; The Strange Case of the Conventional Tip; Regulating Wages and Supplementing Incomes; Regulating inheritance; Making a Public Park; 13 Market Worship - No Ritual Sacrifices; The Tennessee Valley; Universities and Cargo Cults; The Market and Environmental Disaster; The Market and Benevolence; Personifying or Objectifying the Market; Future of the Market; The Market and its Church |
14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 |
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"In How to Improve Your Mind, renowned psychologist James R. Flynn presents 20 key concepts to aid critical thinking and empower individuals to critically analyze what they read, hear, and see in our information society Presents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking Authored by one of the world's most eminent psychologists - and founder of the Flynn Effect Looks at topics such as Race and IQ, "good" science and the current world economic crisis Written in a clear and lucid style, illustrated with many examples "-- |
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UNINA9910961709203321 |
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Beyond knowledge : extracognitive aspects of developing high ability / / edited by Larisa V. Shavinina, Eric Sprott, Michel Ferrari |
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Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003 |
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1-135-64283-4 |
1-282-32120-X |
9786612321207 |
1-4106-1004-7 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Collana |
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The educational psychology series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ShavininaLarisa V |
SprottEric |
FerrariMichel <1959-> |
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Genius |
Gifted persons |
Creative ability |
Creative thinking |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Contents; Preface; I: INTRODUCTION; II: EXTRACOGNITIVE ASPECTS OF EXCEPTIONAL CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS; III: DEVELOPING EXTRACOGNITIVE ASPECTS OF EXCEPTIONAL ABILTTIES; IV: EXTRACOGNITIVE ASPECTS OF HIGH ABILITY AND THE IDEAL ENDS OF DEVELOPMENT; V: CONCLUSION; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Some aspects of giftedness and creativity cannot be explained by cognitive, developmental, personality, or social approaches considered in isolation. At the intersection of these approaches is something invisible, deeply hidden, but at the same time very important--the extracognitive facets of high ability. This volume brings together chapters by leading specialists from around the world responsible for much of the current research in this field, presenting a wide range of perspectives for understanding exceptional achievement. ""High ability"" refers to human abilities described by |
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