Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to act effectively and get things done. CTA can yield information people need -- employers faced with personnel issues, market researchers who want to understand the thought pro[...]
As Albert Camus's famous dictum has it, the only truly important philosophical question is suicide, or whether or not life is worth living. Now, in Pieta, his latest collection of essays, George Klein -- distinguished biologist, writer, Holocaust survivor, and humanist -- faces this question head on[...]
Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in labo[...]
Baseball fans are well aware that the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a sport in the process of glo[...]
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist known as Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career - New York Dedaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portraitist, and fashion photographer - and produced important works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writ[...]
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life. Their focus centred on New York City and its vibrant streets - a newsboy at work, a brass band on a bustling corner, a crowded beach at Coney Island. Though bea[...]
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens--whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society--draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of "Vogue" and "Vogue""Living" over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been publ[...]
The award-winning journalist and activist brings together a collection of essays, speeches, columns, and journalism to provide her provocative views on a wide range of issues, including the privatization of water, genetically modified food, free trade, and the September 11th terrorist attack. Origin[...]
The Right has politicized private life, expanding the zone of public sexuality. This guarantees policies that will worsen social problems and increase personal anxiety, providing proof that sexuality is fundamentally negative-so citizens demand more sex-negative policies. With examples ripped from t[...]
A visual tribute to Elvis's life both onstage and off is a series of one hundred intimate and rare photographs that features such scenes as a recording session at RCA, his prom night pose, and a shared moment with a family dog. 60,000 first printing.[...]
User-friendly and easy to understand, "Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 6th Edition" offers clear, concise coverage of essential critical care concepts, technology, and procedures. Completely updated, evidence-based content addresses the latest advances in high-acuity care and emphasizes patie[...]
Regarded as the definitive source of information in the field, Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant remains your indispensable source for authoritative, state-of-the-art answers. Edited by Drs. Wilson, Nizet, Maldonado, Remington, and Klein, this fully updated reference helps you appl[...]
Aimed at final year undergraduate students, this is the first volume to publish in a new series of text covering core subjects in operational research in an accessible student-friendly format. This volume presents simulation paired with inventory control. The Operational Research Series aims to pr[...]
Hot flashes and sleepless nights? Feeling anxious and irritable? Feel like you're losing your mind? Frustrated with weight gain? It's time for a makeover--a menopause makeover
Staness Jonekos knows all too well how you feel. Leading up to her wedding day at the age of forty-seven, she was sport[...]
Through a three-tiered process called the "Exceleration Program," Klein provides readers with the tools they need to build the intuitive skills that will help them make tough choices, spot potential problems, manage uncertainty and size up situations quickly in the workplace.[...]
This text provides an introduction to modern techniques in survival analysis at a level suitable for most researchers. Counting methods have been presented in other books but only at a much higher mathematical level.[...]
From tantalizing appetizers to delicious desserts, The Gluten-Free Italian Vegetarian Kitchen is a collection of authentic Italian dishes with a vegetarian and gluten-free twist. Made with ingredients that you can find at most local supermarkets, you can use these recipes and advice to prepare healt[...]
Colorful, aromatic, and flavorful--and as simple as ordering in.
The harmonious blending of color, aroma, and flavor has made Chinese cuisine one of the most popular on the planet. As the world's largest producer of fruits and vegetables, China boasts an impressive array of meat-free, egg-free,[...]
Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical organisat[...]