La nuova edizione italiana si propone come il manuale più completo per i corsi di Ingegneria sia delle lauree triennali sia delle lauree specialistiche. Facendo proprio l'approccio concreto, i frequenti riferimenti normativi e i tanti esempi costruttivi del testo originale americano, la versione italiana del libro si caratterizza per una propria vitalità e un'autonomia culturale europea (e italiana in particolare) nel modo in cui sono presentati e discussi i tanti temi trattati nell'ambito della moderna ingegneria meccanica. Nel testo vengono affrontate le basi della costruzione di macchine, comprendendo il processo di progettazione, l'ingegneria meccanica e dei materiali, l'analisi della rottura dovuta ai carichi sia statici sia variabili e le caratteristiche dei principali tipi di elementi meccanici. Le tecniche fondamentali di teoria e analisi sono usate per fornire le equazioni di progetto che permettono, insieme ai parametri caratteristici, di ottenere una corretta progettazione. Il manuale, così, incoraggia il lettore a sviluppare il progetto e l'analisi, sfruttando la creatività e le ampie possibilità offerte dalla progettazione meccanica. Nella nuova edizione è stata ampliata la parte di modellazione costitutiva elasto-plastica, sono state dettagliate maggiormente le analisi di recipienti in pareti sottili e pareti spesse ed è stato aggiunto l'effetto della fatica sul diagramma triangolare di una bullonatura. Inoltre, la trattazione degli ingranaggi è stata ampliata con l'importante tematica dei profili a evolvente con 'spostamento'. In generale in tutta la trattazi

Written by four award-winning teachers and researchers who represent the breadth and depth of the field, Social Psychology, Fourth Edition, encourages students to become critical thinkers about the research, theories, and applications of social psychology. The new formative, adaptive learning tool, InQuizitive, keeps students learning and interacting with content in a variety of ways to improve student comprehension.

Written by four award-winning teachers and researchers who represent the breadth and depth of the field, Social Psychology, Fourth Edition, encourages students to become critical thinkers about the research, theories, and applications of social psychology. The new formative, adaptive learning tool, InQuizitive, keeps students learning and interacting with content in a variety of ways to improve student comprehension.

Written by four award-winning teachers and researchers who represent the breadth and depth of the field, Social Psychology, Fourth Edition, encourages students to become critical thinkers about the research, theories, and applications of social psychology. The new formative, adaptive learning tool, InQuizitive, keeps students learning and interacting with content in a variety of ways to improve student comprehension.

MINDWARE: TOOLS FOR SMART THIN - NISBETT RICHARD - MPS

"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been [Nisbett]." --Malcolm Gladwell,New York Times Book Review

Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home and work and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behavior and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us.
In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions. He has made a distinguished career of studying and teaching such powerful problem-solving concepts as the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, sunk costs and opportunity costs, and causation and correlation, probing how best to teach others to use them effectively in their daily lives. In this groundbreaking book, he shows that a course in a given field--statistics or economics, for example--often doesn't work as well as a few minutes of more practical instruction in analyzing everyday situations.Mindware shows how to reframe common problems in such a way that these powerful scientific and statistical concepts can be applied to them. The result is an enlightening and practical guide to the most powerful tools of reasoning ever developed--tools that can easily be used to make better professional, business, and personal decisions.

Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design is intended for students beginning the study of mechanical engineering design. Students will find that the text inherently directs them into familiarity with both the basics of design decisions and the standards of industrial components. It combines the straightforward focus on fundamentals that instructors have come to expect, with a modern emphasis on design and new applications. The tenth edition maintains the well-designed approach that has made this book the standard in machine design for nearly 50 years.

McGraw-Hill is also proud to offer Connect with the tenth edition of Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. This innovative and powerful new system helps your students learn more efficiently and gives you the ability to assign homework problems simply and easily. Problems are graded automatically, and the results are recorded immediately. Track individual student performance - by question, assignment, or in relation to the class overall with detailed grade reports. ConnectPlus provides students with all the advantages of Connect, plus 24/7 access to an eBook.Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design. includes the power of McGraw-Hill’s LearnSmart--a proven adaptive learning system that helps students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge through a series of adaptive questions. This innovative study tool pinpoints concepts the student does not understand and maps out a personalized plan for success.

How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. With a new foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.

Who are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson's statements, one factor has been consistently left out of the equation: culture. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, world-class social psychologist Richard E. Nisbett takes on the idea of intelligence as biologically determined and impervious to culture with vast implications for the role of education as it relates to social and economic development. Intelligence and How to Get It asserts that intellect is not primarily genetic but is principally determined by societal influences.

When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on the background environment -- and the different 'seeings' are a clue to profound cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people think about -- and even see -- the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China. The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking research in cultural psychology, addressing questions such as:

• Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?
• Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?
• Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?

At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it.

Chiamando in gioco la psicologia cognitiva e le teorie della personalità, l'antropologia e la sociologia, gli autori isolano quanto vi è di generale, cumulativo e rilevante nella psicologia sociale; tracciano il profilo di una scienza che può e deve contribuire a sciogliere le preoccupazioni sociali, politiche e intellettuali della nostra epoca; ne soppesano le forze e, senza infingimenti, i limiti attuali e i compiti futuri.