Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael walker

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  • EXERCISES IN STATISTICAL REASONING
    MICHAEL R. SCHWOB / YUNSHAN DUAN / BEATRICE CANTONI / BERNARDO FLORES-LOPEZ / STEPHEN G. WALKER
    Students cultivate learning techniques in school that emphasize procedural problem solving and rote memorization. This leads to efficient problem solving for familiar problems. However, conducting novel research is an exercise in creative problem solving that is at odds with a procedural approach; it requires thinking deeply about the topic and crafting solutions to unique prob...

    $1,400.00

  • DISTRIBUTED SITUATION AWARENESS IN ROAD TRANSPORT
    PAUL M. SALMON / GEMMA JENNIE MEGAN READ / GUY H. WALKER / MICHAEL G. LENNÉ / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians and creates new designs that cater to these diverse situ...

    $4,700.00

  • HUMAN FACTORS METHODS AND ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
    PAUL M. SALMON / NEVILLE A. STANTON / MICHAEL LENNÉ / DANIEL P. JENKINS / LAURA RAFFERTY / GUY H. WALKER
    This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident causation models and an introduction to the concepts of accident analysis and in...

    $4,500.00

  • RECONSTRUCTING QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS
    J. JOHN LOWE / MICHAEL WALKER
    This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core record...

    $2,700.00

  • PERSONNEL SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
    RUMSEY, MICHAEL G. / WALKER, CLINTON B. / HARRIS, JAMES H.
    Bringing together several key elements needed to identify the most promising themes for future research in selection and classification, this book's underlying aim is to improve job performance by selecting the right persons and matching them most effectively with the right jobs. An emphasis is placed on current, innovative research approaches which in some cases depart substan...

    $1,420.00

  • FUNDAMENTAL QSARS FOR METAL IONS
    JOHN D. WALKER / MICHAEL C. NEWMAN / MONICA ENACHE
    Fundamental QSARs for Metal Ions describes the basic and essential applications of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) for regulatory or industrial scientists who need to predict metal ion bioactivity. It includes 194 QSARs that have been used to predict metal ion toxicity and 86 QSARs that have been used to predict metal ion bioc ...

    $1,800.00

  • RESEARCH AS SOCIAL CHANGE
    MICHAEL SCHRATZ / ROB WALKER
    Have you ever thought research is boring? "Research" writes Umberto Eco "should be fun". It seems unlikely that Umberto Eco has read many of the standard social science or education research texts. But social research does offer the possibility of involvement in projects that are informative, sometimes revealing, and fun to do. This book shows us that teaching, learning and res...

    $1,120.00

  • INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
    CAROL E. JORDAN / MICHAEL T. NIETZEL / ROBERT WALKER / TK LOGAN
    This training manual synthesizes the clinical and research literature on victims, offenders, and child witnesses, and uses the empirical evidence to provide generalist clinicians with manageable, concrete guidance for providing care in these cases. Each chapter begins with a summary of the issues to be covered and an outline of the specific topics to be discussed, and ends with...

    $1,383.00

  • MODERN GHOST MELODRAMAS
    MICHAEL WALKER
    The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction b...

    $1,240.00

  • A CRITICAL COMPANION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD
    MICHAEL REED / ROSIE WALKER
    In this stimulating and provocative book the editors have drawn together a diverse and international range of respected authors, each of whom has taken a critical approach to the contentious question of how you define and achieve quality early childhood services. It is a book designed to provoke and promote critical dialogue and discourse amongst practitioners and students thro...

    $1,253.50