Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david armstrong

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  • EDUCATIONAL TRENDS EXPOSED
    DAVID ARMSTRONG / GILL ARMSTRONG
    Educational Trends Exposed explains and critically reviews eighteen of the most prevalent trends sweeping schools, colleges and universities over the last decade and beyond. Amid the buzz from news outlets, websites and social media peddling ‘this works’ approaches and ‘quick fix’ solutions, this book provides educators with a practical tool to help answer important questions s...

    $780.00

  • PRESENTING STATISTICAL RESULTS EFFECTIVELY
    ROBERT ANDERSEN / DAVID A. ARMSTRONG II
    Perfect for any statistics student or researcher, this book offers hands-on guidance on how to interpret and discuss your results in a way that not only gives them meaning, but also achieves maximum impact on your target audience. No matter what variables your data involves, it offers a roadmap for analysis and presentation that can be extended to other models and contexts. Foc...

    $1,468.39

  • ANALYZING SPATIAL MODELS OF CHOICE AND JUDGMENT
    DAVID A. ARMSTRONG / RYAN BAKKER / ROYCE CARROLL / CHRISTOPHER HARE / KEITH T. POOLE / HOWARD ROSENTHAL
    With recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of preference, perception and choice data, such as public opinion surveys and legislative voting, the empirical estimation of spatial models using scaling and ideal point estimation methods has never been more accessible.The second edition of Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment demonstrates how ...

    $1,420.00

  • SOCIAL DEFENCES AGAINST ANXIETY
    DAVID ARMSTRONG
    This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety. It explores this theory as a generative paradigm, capable both of theoretical extension and of empirical application to different institutional settings. ...

    $1,200.00

  • WORKING BELOW THE SURFACE
    DAVID ARMSTRONG
    The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and the dynamics of the workplace. The intention is to identify and explore some of the key themes that have emerged, such as the emotional world of the organisation and the dynamics of res...

    $1,000.00

  • SOCIAL DREAMING @ WORK
    DAVID ARMSTRONG
    "Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. Its immediate origins date back to the early 1980s. At that time, Gordon Lawrence was on the scientific staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. He was a core member of the Institute's Group Relation...

    $1,200.00

  • BION'S LEGACY TO GROUPS
    DAVID ARMSTRONG
    'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the transference, or of Melanie Klein's attention to the play of children. Wilfred Bion's study of groups and group processes also has this quality. More than the content of what he saw and c...

    $1,000.00

  • ORGANIZATION IN THE MIND
    DAVID ARMSTRONG
    David Armstrong has been a leading figure internationally in the fields of organizational consultancy and group relations for many years. Robert French and Russ Vince have gathered together, for the first time, his key writings in this area. This is essential reading for managers and leaders, as well as organizational consultants, academics and students of organizations. Part o...

    $1,000.00

  • AN OUTLINE OF SOCIOLOGY AS APPLIED TO MEDICINE
    DAVID L. ARMSTRONG
    An Outline of Sociology as Applied to Medicine, Third Edition provides an understanding of the origins, nature, and context of illness in society. This book discusses the relationship between health care and the society in which it occurs. Organized into 15 chapters, this edition begins with an overview of some deficiencies of the biomedical model of illness. This text then ex...

    $425.00

  • ORIGINAL SIGNS
    DAVID F. ARMSTRONG
    In the ongoing debate about evolution, scholars frequently argue either the perspective that humans stand as the end product of a deliberate process or that they derive from a series of random acts of natural selection. David F. Armstrong’s new book Original Signs embraces the Darwinian concept of natural selection and extends it to apply to the formation of language. While mos...

    $644.66

  • KEY PERSPECTIVES ON DYSLEXIA
    DAVID ARMSTRONG / GARRY SQUIRES
    This indispensable book critically sets out the skills and knowledge required by a specialist educator for students who present with dyslexia. The British Dyslexia Association Professional Criteria (BDA, 2012) provides an anchor throughout for this book’s content. Chapters are explicitly mapped to specific professional criteria, offering the reader confidence that guidance in K...

    $1,100.00

  • THE HISTORY OF GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
    DAVID F. ARMSTRONG
    On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment, what became Gallaudet University began a century and a half of offering a collegiate liberal arts education to deaf and hard of he...

    $1,343.04

  • THE ASSESSMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
    DAVID M. GALLOWAY / DERRICK ARMSTRONG / SALLY TOMLINSON
    The debate about special needs provision has increased dramatically over the last 15 years, however, despite the widespread concern over both learning and behavioural difficulties, there have been few attempts to analyse in detail the process of assessment by which children are being identified as having special educational needs.Drawing upon research carried out by the authors...

    $1,380.00

  • SHOW OF HANDS
    DAVID F. ARMSTRONG
    Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language casts a wide net in history and geography to explain how these visible languages have enr...

    $626.75

  • THE STUDY OF SIGNED LANGUAGES
    DAVID F. ARMSTRONG (ED.)
    In 1999, many of today’s notable researchers assembled at a special conference in honor of William C. Stokoe to explore the remarkable research that grew out of his original insights on American Sign Language. The Study of Signed Languages presents the fascinating findings from that conference.        Part 1, Historical Perspectives, begins with a description of the decline of ...

    $876.56

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
    DAVID ARMSTRONG
    The Routledge Handbook of International Law provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of international politics and international law. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and provides a state of the art overview of the most significant areas within the field. This highly topical collection of specially commissioned papers from both established authorities a...

    $1,600.00

  • THE INCLUSIVE TEACHER
    DAVID ARMSTRONG / DAVID ROY
    This quick-reference, highly practical guide is designed to help teachers successfully include students with a disability in the classroom, as well as being a research text. Armstrong and Roy focus on key 'sticky' issues often referenced by teachers, schools, and government as preventing inclusion, filling in the gaps in current teacher capabilities in responding to these issue...

    $860.00