busy brain already has a lot on its mind and doesn’t find it easy to add any more. With an overloaded

mind it’s hard to think straight or pay attention. You find yourself getting tired and angry easily, which

stops you explaining clearly what you want to say. As a result working or playing together becomes

more difficult. Some minds are naturally like this and fill up quickly. This book refers to them as “easily

overloaded minds”.

The book is intended, and especially written for child...

Hoe kan de hedendaagse architect en stedenbouwer beter reageren op actuele vraagstukken en ontwikkelingen, met de bestaande context als uitgangspunt? Hoe kan de bestaande context opnieuw gelezen, begrepen, op waarde geschat én verder ontwikkeld worden? Hoe kunnen de zorg voor erfgoed en nieuwe ontwikkelingen hand in hand gaan? En hoe kan architectuur vanuit het bestaande anticiperen op nieuwe ontwikkelingen, van vergrijzing en sociale segregatie tot klimaatverandering? Dit zijn vragen die ce...

For two- and three-semester university physics courses. 0134988566 / 9780134988566 Volume 2 contains Chapters 20—39 Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types Richard Wolfson’s Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasizes conc...

Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, and international bodies, and is far more than simply the impact of geographical features on political developments. This book considers both geopolitics' intellectual historical origins and its current concerns.

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in the...

From the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and continuing in the tradition of award-winning educator and epidemiologist Dr. Leon Gordis, comes the fully revised 6th Edition of Gordis Epidemiology. This bestselling text provides a solid introduction to basic epidemiologic principles as well as practical applications in public health and clinical practice, highlighted by real-world examples throughout.

New coverage includes expanded information on genetic epidemiology, epid...

Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse provides a pathway for learning about statistical inference using data science tools widely used in industry, academia, and government. It introduces the tidyverse suite of R packages, including the ggplot2 package for data visualization, and the dplyr package for data wrangling. After equipping readers with just enough of these data science tools to perform effective exploratory data analyses, the book covers tradi...

A book with nearly 300 images of six unconventional schools.

What does it look like when school happens outside in a forest, at a soldering bench, or in a pig shed? When school leaders make a curriculum that follows the way a child thinks and grows, not the other way around? When class means building a roller coaster, robotics, or a biodiesel motorbike? What do we see when school truly engages kids, all the while really helping them develop the skills they need in life? This book is here to ...

For upper-level to graduate courses in Probability or Probability and Statistics, for majors in mathematics, statistics, engineering, and the sciences. Explores both the mathematics and the many potential applications of probability theory A First Course in Probability offers an elementary introduction to the theory of probability for students in mathematics, statistics, engineering, and the sciences. Through clear and intuitive explanations, it attempts to present not only the mathematics of...