Author: Philip David Zelazo
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: development, special, issue, journal, cognition, cognitive, changes, behavior, implications, shaped
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-03-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0805895671
ISBN-13: 9780805895674

Interest in U-shaped development increased in November and December 2000 when a vigorous discussion took place on U-shaped patterns and their potential explanations. This debate led to a special issue devoted to the topic. The articles raise three main questions: Why are U-shaped curves of interest? What do U-shaped curves tell about the processes that produce cognitive development? What does the resurgence of interest in U-shaped curves tell about where the field of cognitive development is going? The increasing attention to U-shaped performance that is reflected throughout is indicative of a

Authors:Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, psychology, handbooks, consciousness, handbook
Number of Pages: 998
Published: 2007-05-14
List price: $172.99
ISBN-10: 0521857430
ISBN-13: 9780521857437

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness is the first of its kind in the field, and its appearance marks a unique time in the history of intellectual inquiry on the topic. After decades during which consciousness was considered beyond the scope of legitimate scientific investigation, consciousness re-emerged as a popular focus of research towards the end of the last century, and it has remained so for nearly 20 years. There are now so many different lines of investigation on consciousness that the time has come when the field may finally benefit from a book that pulls them together and, by juxt

Authors:Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, psychology, handbooks, consciousness, handbook
Number of Pages: 998
Published: 2007-05-14
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0521674123
ISBN-13: 9780521674126

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness is the first of its kind in the field, and its appearance marks a unique time in the history of intellectual inquiry on the topic. After decades during which consciousness was considered beyond the scope of legitimate scientific investigation, consciousness re-emerged as a popular focus of research towards the end of the last century, and it has remained so for nearly 20 years. There are now so many different lines of investigation on consciousness that the time has come when the field may finally benefit from a book that pulls them together and, by juxt

Authors:David Godschalk, Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: policy, planning, disaster, recasting, hazard, mitigation, natural
Number of Pages: 591
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1559636025
ISBN-13: 9781559636025

The first half of the 1990s have seen the largest and most costly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability.Natural Hazard Mitigation describes and analyzes the way that hazard mitigation has been carried out in the U.S. under our national disaster law, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. It is the first systematic study of the complete intergovernmental system for natural haza

Author: David Philip Miller
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Keywords: science, culture, nineteenth, century, steam, origins, watt, chemist, understanding, james
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1851969748
ISBN-13: 9781851969746

In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings. Part I of the book - Representations - examines the way James Watt has been portrayed over time, emphasizing sculptural, pictorial and textual representations from the nineteenth century. As an important contributor to the development of arguably the most important technology of i

Authors:Philip Levis, David Gay,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: programming, tinyos
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-04-13
List price: $48.99
ISBN-10: 0521896061
ISBN-13: 9780521896061

Do you need to know how to write systems, services, and applications using the TinyOS operating system? Learn how to write nesC code and efficient applications with this indispensable guide to TinyOS programming. Detailed examples show you how to write TinyOS code in full, from basic applications right up to new low-level systems and high performance applications. Two leading figures in the development of TinyOS also explain the reasons behind many of the design decisions made and, for the first time, how nesC relates to and differs from other C dialects. Handy features such as a library of so

Authors:Philip R. Berke, David R Godschalk,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: fifth, planning, land, urban
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2006-04-10
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0252030796
ISBN-13: 9780252030796

Divided into three sections, this edition of "Urban Land Use Planning" deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of what land use planning should become. It explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders; it explains how to build planning support systems to assess future conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios; and it sets forth a methodology for creating plans that will influence future land use cha