In this age of science and logic it is astounding how many intelligent individuals subscribe to ridiculous beliefs. Whether it's the fundamentalist Christian belief that the world is no more than 6,000 years old, far-fetched notions of an extravagant afterlife held by cultists and religious zealots, or the common belief in space alien interventions, these illogical views are found in every corner of society. This book by Law (philosophy, Heythrop College, U. of London) examines the inner workings and power of these logically bankrupt beliefs and why so many intelligent and educated people believe them. By exposing how these logical clap-traps work, this book offers the general reader an immunization against them. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Presents a year's worth of daily devotions intended to help couples develop and practice genuine and unconditional love toward one another, based on the principles expressed in the original Love Dare book.

Emerging originally from the study of the relationship between geometry and algebra, the concept of category has been increasingly employed in all branches of mathematics, especially in studies where the relationship between different branches is important. While the categorical concepts are latent in elementary mathematics and making them more explicit helps in going beyond elementary algebra into more advanced mathematics, they are generally accessible only through graduate-level textbooks because the available examples involved topics such as modules and topological spaces. In order to make the categorical concepts accessible to any interested high-school student, the authors (both of the state U. of New York at Buffalo) here develop the categorical concepts from the concepts of directed graph and of discrete dynamical system, showing how their features are shared by other categories that are more continuous, such as those whose maps are described by partial differential equations. For this second edition they have provided a more detailed discussion of the links between the elementary categorical material and more advanced applications, introducing the notion of connected component, which is fundamental to the qualitative leaps studied in elementary graph theory and advanced topology. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ideal for students, novice researchers, or professionals, this indispensable resource serves as a road map for readers who need to analyze and apply research findings. It helps them think critically about the credibility of what they are reading by showing them how to identify problems and develop constructive questions.

Key Features

• Assumes no prior knowledge of research procedures
• Provides readers with a step-by-step format for decoding the complex language and formats used in reports and reviews
• Includes the most common formats for both quantitative and qualitative inquiry
• Offers both illustrative examples and powerful training exercises
• Gives specific attention to strategies for critically appraising reported research
• Presents completely updated references as well as an annotated bibliography

Intended Audience

This text is appropriate for both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students across the social sciences enrolled in introductory research courses as well as students in professional preparation programs.

'Il volume presente è dedicato soprattutto alla medicina interna ma si estende molto al di là di questa disciplina, affrontando anche molti problemi non-internistici che il medico incontra nella sua pratica quotidiana: dalla oculistica alla valutazione preoperatoria del malato, dalla otorinolaringoiatria fino alla psichiatria e ai problemi legati con la fine della vita. Il libro curato da Tierney, McPhee e Papadakis si propone di esporre, con uno stile stringato e in uno spazio relativamente ristretto, le nozioni oggi indispensabili per la pratica medica; esso, infatti, riporta le più recenti acquisizioni diagnostico-terapeutiche e fa largo riferimento alle linee-guida più autorevoli, mantenendo però sempre la struttura di un vero trattato nel quale le conoscenze classiche e quelle più attuali convivono insieme e si compenetrano. Infatti, le notizie più recenti e clinicamente utili, lungi dal venire esposte in una sequenza priva di connessioni razionali, sono precedute dalle nozioni teoriche che le giustificano e vengono collocate e integrate all'interno di una rete razionale di conoscenze che costituisce l'edificio concettuale della medicina.' (Dalla Presentazione dell'edizione italiana).

The focus of this text is to teach and illustrate the fundamentals of microeconomics as it relates to the administration and enforcement of antitrust laws both domestically and internationally. The chapters instruct as to the fundamentaleconomic constructs relevant to the analysis of antitrust injury, as well as address both legal and economic issues with respect to the measurement of antitrust damages. Each chapter provides the student, practitioner, consultant and/or judicial officer critical insight with respect to the analysis and measurement of competitive injury and any resulting business damages. This book is designed to serve as 1) a companion text in any antitrust law class; 2) a supplemental text in any managerial economics class; and 3) a resource to practitioners and consultants in the field of antitrust and industrial organization.The study of antitrust law is an interdisciplinary endeavor. While the traditional case method approach provides a solid introductory foundation, such an approach, absent any applied economic theory, will likely result in a stale, task-oriented classroom and/or jurisprudential environment, primarily devoted to categorizing an evolving common law history. Given the arbitrarily imposed time constraints imposed by an institutional semester or an administrative judge, one cannot expect to teach or learn all the intricacies of microeconomics, but since an understanding of microeconomics fundamentals will result from an understanding of the underlying assumptions of the model of perfect competition, one can expect to achieve a certain level of competence in their application.Each of the contributing authors is recognized for his or her scholarship and expertise in the antitrust regulatory field. The totality of their varied backgrounds and experiences not only illustrates the robust nature of the book's contents, but also illustrates the profound interdisciplinary nature of regulating competition in the markets of the world.

How do we raise good children? How do we make good citizens? In defiant yet acute fashion, Stephen Law urges us to re-evaluate the liberal tradition of thinking about morality. Tackling authoritarian rhetoric head-on, he argues that children should learn about right and wrong, and respect for others, but that their education should be grounded in the hard-won values of the Enlightenment. Taking on neo-conservatives and religious and media commentators, The War for Children’s Minds is a candid and controversial call for a liberal, philosophically informed approach to raising children.

Rejecting accusations that liberal parenting is a Sixties hangover that entails an aimless ‘whatever’ attitude to morality, Stephen Law exposes the weaknesses of arguments calling for a return to authoritarian styles of moral education. He clearly shows that thinking for oneself does not mean that all moral points of view are equally good, or that we must reject faith in order to think freely.

This is a heavily illustrated introduction to some of the key ideas and figures of philosophy for the interested layperson. Law (philosophy, U. of London, UK) intends for the reader to treat the material in a piecemeal manner and calls the volume a 'taster' of the main areas of Western philosophy, as well as some more idiosyncratic matters and also a few topics from non-Western schools of thought. Following discussion of the history of philosophy, he has organized the material largely according to the main branches of philosophy: knowledge, metaphysics, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. Also included is discussion of philosophical methods and brief biographical profiles of a few hundred important philosophers. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

25 easily digestible introductions to current philosophical questions. Ideal as a guide to dip into. Law is the editor of a new philosophy journal, }Think{.

A Level textbook.

This top-selling, theorem-proof book presents a careful treatment of the principle topics of linear algebra, and illustrates the power of the subject through a variety of applications. It emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between linear transformations and matrices, but states theorems in the more general infinite-dimensional case where appropriate. Chapter topics cover vector spaces, linear transformations and matrices, elementary matrix operations and systems of linear equations, determinants, diagonalization, inner product spaces, and canonical forms. For statisticians and engineers.

Noting that the 'assessment and intervention phases of clinical reasoning are shot through with normative commitments and judgments,' Ward (forensic psychology, U. of Melbourne, Australia), Laws, (formerly of Adult Forensic Psychiatric Services, Canada) and Hudson (formerly Director of Clinical Psychology, U. of Canterbury, New Zealand) present 19 contributions that are about equally divided between discussions of conceptual issues of forensic psychology and examinations of therapeutic responses to sexual deviance (in a criminal sense). Among the topics: child sexual abuse, evolutionary explanations of rape, behavioral economic approaches to assessment and treatment, developmental antecedents to sexual offending, pharmacological treatments, sexual offending as a public health problem, and risk-need models of offender rehabilitation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Few things in our world today can be described as truly 'unique,' and yet, this word is aptly attributed to the USS Constellation. The last all-sail warship constructed by the United States Navy, the Constellation is the last surviving vessel afloat that actively served in the Union or Confederate Navies during the Civil War. While hundreds of battlefields commemorate the valor of the legions of soldiers who served in our nation's most divisive conflict, this ship is the last buoyant memorial to those who served their country and their cause upon the precarious seas. From her 1854 mystery-shrouded construction, through her numerous roles and assignments, to her several 'restorations' over the last 40 years, this majestic vessel has a fascinating story to tell. USS Constellation: An Illustrated History, the first comprehensive account of the Constellation's journey through the years, tells this story and showcases over 200 images, including photographs, engravings, paintings, and sketches gathered from museums, archives, and private collections. These visual records, and the informative captions that accompany them, testify to the engaging tale of this seminal piece of American history, dispel the myths of her past, and set straight her record of accomplishment and endurance.