Автор: Lasch Christopher Название: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations ISBN: 0393356175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393356175 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: The classic The New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction from much-lauded The Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.
Автор: Dickens Charles Название: Great Expectations ISBN: 1607105527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607105527 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Цена: 1583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of the most popular novelists ever, Charles Dickens wrote about what he saw in 19th century London: orphans, child labor, and the crime that was rampant in the city at the time. In the 1861 bestseller Great Expectations, he wove all of these themes into a tale of mystery and personal development. The story of a young orphan boy--poor and alone, but whisked away to London by a anonymous benefactor--is a fantastic tale, complete with plot twists and a love story that puts many modern novels to shame. To this day, Great Expectations remains one of Dickens's greatest achievements. Now available as part of the Canterbury Classics singles series, the novel is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers. Lexile score: 1150L About the Word Cloud Classics series: Classic works of literature with a clean, modern aesthetic Perfect for both old and new literature fans, the Word Cloud Classics series from Canterbury Classics provides a chic and inexpensive introduction to timeless tales. With a higher production value, including heat burnished covers and foil stamping, these eye-catching, easy-to-hold editions are the perfect gift for students and fans of literature everywhere.
Автор: Dickens Charles Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Great Expectations ISBN: 0194792269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194792264 Издательство: Oxford University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2735.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound “baby pictures” to friends and co-workers, and decorating the nursery in anticipation of the new arrival. These ordinary practices of pregnancy, the author argues, are significant and revealing creative activities that produce babies. They are the activities through which babies are made important and meaningful in the lives of the women and men awaiting the child’s birth. This book brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction and will be of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike.
Автор: Richard Thomas Curtin Название: Consumer Expectations: Micro Foundations and Macro Impact ISBN: 0521181135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521181136 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6811.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Richard Curtin has directed the University of Michigan`s consumer sentiment surveys for more than four decades. His analyses of recent trends in consumer expectations are regularly covered in the worldwide press. In this book, Curtin presents a new theory of expectations, consistent with both micro data observations and macro environment.
Описание: The clear structure of psalm groups in Psalms 107-150 can be interpreted as signaling a renewed hope in the royal/Davidic promises. Each psalm group of Book V is organized around a theme or key word that is related to the royal/Davidic hope in the earlier sections of the Psalter: Psalms 107-118; Psalm 119; Psalms 120-137; Psalms 138-145; Psalms 146-150. These words and themes figure prominently at the major seam psalms of the Psalter – Psalms 1-2 and 89. Thus, the content and subject matter at the end of the Psalter is integrally related to the content and subject matter at the beginning. The editorial-critical method used by Snearly is an extension of the method used by David M. Howard, Jr. in The Structure of Psalms 93-100. Snearly also draws from recent insights in the fields of poetics and text-linguistics in order to establish a linguistically based foundation for reading the Psalter as a unified text. The methodology emphasizes parallel features, with special focus on key-word links. This method advances editorial criticism by not only discerning links within a group but also showing that those links do not occur with the same frequency outside of the group.
Автор: Rutherford Brett Название: An Expectation of Presences: New Poems and Revisions ISBN: 0922558698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780922558698 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3440.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Here is Brett Rutherford's first new compendium of poems in seven years. Following on The Gods As They Are On Their Planets (2005) and Poems from Providence (1991), this book is a must for fans of this neo-Romantic American poet. The 94 new poems and revisions in this collection range from a dark-shadowed childhood in the coal and coke region of Western Pennsylvania, to New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. The jolting sequence titled "Out Home" is a poetic memoir of broken families and childhood terrors, and the imminent threat of kidnapping and mutilation by "Doctor Jones," a crazed surgeon who roams the countryside in a sinister roadster. The small boy of these poems is already a self-styled outsider, defining his difference from the crushing environment around him. In "Past the Millennium" and "Ars Poetica," the full-grown poet soars, with politically-charged poems on Solzhenitsyn, the self-immolation of Czech martyr Jan Palach, and the imagined overtaking of Bush and Cheney by "The Black Huntsman." Rutherford walks in Poe's footsteps on a Hudson River pier, visits ancient Rome for a chat with the law-giving King Numa Pompilius, and puts Poe to work tracking down a cemetery spectre in 1848 Providence. Two historic verse plays give voice to the mad Carlota, Empress of Mexico, and two Austrian policemen with an unexpected prisoner on their hands. Humor abounds in this volume, too, from the possessed sex toys in "A Night in Eddie's Apartment," skeptical Martians refusing to believe there's life on Earth, nine-year-old Dante meeting Beatrice in Providence's Federal Hill, and a surrealist adventure across Europe as a lost sock-puppet searches for its owner, meeting Sigmund Freud along the way. A sequence of poems on Love and Eros titled "Love Spells" plumbs the depths of desire and obsession, and presents several powerful elegies, culminating with the poignant "The Loft on Fourteenth Street." The erotic poems, some set in Ancient Greece and some in the present, are frank and often amusing, perhaps some comfort for those who think the fun ends at thirty. Ending the book is a clump of supernatural poems, as expected from this heir of Poe and Lovecraft: a story-length poem, "Dawn," presents the ennui of a 300-year-old vampire; the birth and education of the feared witch Keziah Mason; wind elementals attack the headquarters of Bain Capital in Boston; and Elder Gods arrive to make humans their playthings. An Expectation of Presences is a wide-ranging and startling collection, romantic, defiant, and bracingly hopeful.
Автор: Carrabis Joseph Название: Reading Virtual Minds Volume II: Experience and Expectation ISBN: 0984140352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780984140350 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4474.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a "How to Do It" book, complete with 69 TakeAways.
From Holly Buchanan's Foreword: After inhaling Reading Virtual Minds Volume I I was like an antsy 3-year old waiting for Reading Virtual Minds Volume II. It did not disappoint. I love the way Joseph Carrabis thinks. He has a unique ability to share broad rich theory with actionable specifics. Unlike many technical writers, he has a unique voice that is both approachable and humorous. It makes for an enjoyable read. But what's the main reason why you should read Reading Virtual Minds Volume II: Experiences and Expectations? Because where most companies and designers fail is on the expectation front.
Humans are designed as expectation engines.
This is, perhaps, the most important sentence in this book. One of the main points Joseph makes in this volume is this - Understand your audiences' whys and you'll design near perfect whats. Design failures come from getting the whys wrong. That can lead to failures on the experience side, but also on the expectation side. And that can be the bigger problem.
Expectation is a top-down process. Higher-level information informs lower-level processing. Experience is a bottom-up process. Sensory information goes into higher-level processing for evaluation. Humans are designed as expectation engines. Topdown connections out number bottom-up connections by about 10:1.
Why is this so important?
In language, more than anywhere else, we see or hear what we expect to hear, not necessarily what is said or written. Across all cultures and languages, neurophysiologists and psychologists estimate that what we experience is as much as 85% what we expect to experience, not necessarily what is real or 'environmentally available'.
And
When people expect A and get B they go through a few moments of fugue. External reality is not synching up with internal reality and the mind and brain will, if allowed, burn themselves out making the two mesh. Get your consumer/visitor/user experience AND expectation right, get their why right, and you'll be exponentially more successful.
Here are just a few of the goodies you'll find in this book:
Privacy vs. value exchange and when to ask for what information. Joseph has some actionable specifics on this that will surprise you.
Why we design for false attractors rather than the real problem.
The importance of understanding convincer strategies. Convincer strategies are the internal processes people go through in order to convince themselves they should or should not do something.
Companies spend a lot of time trying to convince consumers to trust them. But what may be even more important is understanding how to let consumers you know you trust them.
This book has ideas on how to show your customers/users/visitors, "I believe in you".
How often our own experience influence our designs. Unless you're able to throw all your experience out, and let the user's experience in, get out of the usability and design business.
How to allow your visitors easy Anonymous-Expressive Identity and make them yours forever.
Regarding new material, design, interface, the importance of making sure your suggestions provide a clear path to the past (thus being risk averse while providing marketable innovation).
As always, Reading Virtual Minds provides specific actionable ideas. But it will also make you think and approach your work in a new way. And I think that's the best reason to treat yourself to this book and the inner workings of NextStage and Joseph Carrabis.
Описание: Introduction.- Practices and Changes in China's Income Distribution over the Last 40 Years.- Total Size and Pattern of China's Income Distribution over the Last 40 Years.- Causes and Explanations of Changes in China's Income Distribution Pattern over the Last 40 Years.- Debates over Income Distribution in China and Changes in Ideas and Theories over the Last 40 Years.- Experience and Characteristics of China's Income Distribution Reform over the Past 40 Years.- Chinese Income Distribution Over the Past 40 Years: Theoretical Development and Innovation.- China's Income Distribution Reform in the New Era: New Problems and Challenges.- Further Income Distribution Reform in the New Era.- Policy Framework for Promoting Income Growth and Income Distribution Reform in the New Era.
Автор: Shan Zun Название: Probability and Expectation ISBN: 9813141492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813141490 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 3643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In China, lots of excellent students who are good at maths take an active part in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be selected to form the IMO National Team to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past ten years China's IMO Team has achieved outstanding results -- they have won the first place almost every year.The author is one of the senior coaches of China's IMO National Team, whose students have won many gold medals many times in IMO.This book is part of the Mathematical Olympiad Series which discusses several aspects related to maths contests, such as algebra, number theory, combinatorics, graph theory and geometry. This book will, in an interesting problem-solving way, explain what probability theory is: its concepts, methods and meanings; particularly, two important concepts -- probability and mathematical expectation (briefly expectation) -- are emphasized. It consists of 65 problems, appended by 107 exercises and their answers.
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