Author: John A. Adam
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: walk, nature, mathematical
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691128952
ISBN-13: 9780691128955

How tall is that tree? How far away is that cloud, and how heavy is it? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and informative collection of fascinating puzzles from the natural world around us, A Mathematical Nature Walk will delight anyone who loves nature or math or both. John Adam presents ninety-six questions about many common natural phenomena--and a few uncommon ones--and then shows how to answer them using mostly

Author: John Adam
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: risk
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1857280687
ISBN-13: 9781857280685

Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a "risk thermostat" and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road is straightened. Cultural theory explains risk-taking behaviour by the operation of cultural filters. It postulates that behaviour is governed by the probable costs and benefits of alternative courses of action which are perceived through filters formed from all

Author: John Quincy Adam
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: orations
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419139118
ISBN-13: 9781419139116

The incompetency of the Articles of Confederation for the management of the affairs of the Union at home and abroad was demonstrated to them by the painful and mortifying experience of every day. Washington, though in retirement, was brooding over the cruel injustice suffered by his associates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of the nation.

Authors:Lawrence Weinstein, John A. Adam,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: cocktail, napkin, problems, world, solving, guesstimation
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691129495
ISBN-13: 9780691129495

Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it’s popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants’ abilities to think on their feet. Guesstimation enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything--quickly--using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. Lawrence Weinstein and John Adam present an eclectic array of estimation problems that range from devilishly

Authors:John Klein, Adam Spears,
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: nephilim, return, demons, devils
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-06-16
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 159781184X
ISBN-13: 9781597811842

Authors:Adam R. Nelson, John L. Rudolph,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: america, modern, print, culture, history, education
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-05-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0299236145
ISBN-13: 9780299236144

Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producer

Authors:Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotberg, John Adam,
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: africa, zulu, kwa, perspectives, southern, bophuthatswana, economic, homelands, south, political, black, development
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1978-10-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520037162
ISBN-13: 9780520037168

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