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UNINA9910141255603321 |
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Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
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Titolo |
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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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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 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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UNISA996199385603316 |
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Modern polymer spectroscopy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Giuseppe Zerbi |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Weinheim ; ; New York, : Wiley-VCH, c1999 |
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1-281-76429-9 |
9786611764296 |
3-527-61392-7 |
3-527-61393-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Polymers - Analysis |
Vibrational spectra |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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 index. |
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Modern Polymer Spectroscopy; Contents; 1 Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Background; 1.3 Basic Properties of 2D Correlation Spectra; 1.4 Instrumentation; 1.5 Applications; 2 Segmental Mobility of Liquid Crystals and Liquid-Crystalline Polymers Under External Fields: Characterization by Fourier-Transform Infrared Polarization Spectroscopy; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Measurement Techniques; 2.3 Theory; 2.4 Structure Dependent Alignment of Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polyacrylates on Anisotropic Surfaces |
2.5 Electric-Field Induced Orientation and Relaxation of Liquid-Crystalline Systems2.6 Alignment of Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polyesters Under Laser Irradiation; 2.7 Orientation of Liquid-Crystals Under Mechanical Force; 2.8 Conclusions; 3 Vibrational Spectra as a Probe of Structural Order/Disorder in Chain Molecules and Polymers; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Dynamical Case of Small and Symmetric Molecules; 3.3 How to Describe the Vibrations of a Molecule; 3.4 Short and Long Range Vibrational Coupling in Molecules; 3.5 Towards Larger Molecules: From Oligoiners to Polymers |
3.6 From Dynamics to Vibrational Spectra of One-Dimensional |
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Lattices3.7 The Case of Isotactic Polypropylene - A Textbook Case; 3.8 Density of Vibrational States and Neutron Scattering; 3.9 Moving Towards Reality: From Order to Disorder; 3.10 What Do We Learn from Calculations; 3.11 A Very Simple Case: Lattice Dynamics of HCI-DCl Mixed Crystals; 3.12 CIS-tram Opening of the Double Bond in the Polymerysation of Ethylene; 3.13 Defect Modes as Structural Probes in Polymethylene Chains; 3.14 Case studies:; Case 1 Conformational Mapping of Fatty Acids Through Mass Defects |
Case 2 Liquid Crystalline Polymers: PolyestersCase 3 Chain Folding in Polyethylene Single Crystals; Case 4 The Structure of the Skin and Core in Polyethylene Films (Normal and Ultradrawn); Case 5 Moving Towards More Complex Polymethylene Systems; 3.15 Simultaneous Configurational and Conformational Disorder. The case of Polyvynylchloride; 3.16 Structural Inhomogeneity and Raman Spectroscopy of LAM Modes; 3.17 Fermi Resonances; 3.18 Band Broadening and Conformational Flexibility; 3.19 A Worked Out Example: Froin N-Alkanes to Polyethylene. Structure and Dynamics |
4 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Intact and Doped Conjugated Polymers and Their Models4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Materials; 4.3 Geometry of Intact Polymers; 4.4 Geometrical Changes Introduced by Doping; 4.5 Methodology of Raman Studies of Polarons, Bipolarons and Solitons; 4.6 Near Infrared Raman Spectroscopy; 4.7 Poly(p-phenylene); 4.8 Other Polymers; 4.9 Electronic Absorption and ESR Spectroscopies and Theory; 4.10 Mechanism of Charge Transport; 4.11 Summary; 5 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polypeptides; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Force Fields; 5.3 Amide Modes; 5.4 Polypeptides; 5.5 Summary; Index |
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Modern Polymer Spectroscopy provides a 'guided tour' to the state of the art in polymer analysis by vibrational spectroscopy. Five renowned experts describe new experimental and theoretical techniques. Areas of focus include:- two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy- segmental mobility of liquid crystalline polymers under external fields- dynamics and structure of polymers with chemical and structural disorder- spectra of polyconjugated conducting polymers- theoretical calculations on biopolymers.Readers learn experimental techniques and theoretical tools essential for ob |
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