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This intriguing book explores the reasons that lead undergraduates of above-average ability to switch from science, mathematics, and engineering majors into nonscience majorsthis book grew out of a three-year, seven-campus study aimed at explaining the national loss of 40 to 60 percent of undergraduates from science, mathematics, and engineering majors into nonscience disciplinesthis is a landmark study-an essential source book for all those concerned with changing the ways that we teach science, mathematics, and engineering education, and with opening these fields to a more diverse student bodytalking about leaving is richly illustrated with students' accounts of their own experiences in the sciencesthe authors' findings, culled from over 600 hours of ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions with undergraduates, explain the intended and unintended consequences of some traditional teaching practices and attitudessee oxfam website for delivery information read morea landmark study, the volume is an essential source book for all those concerned with changing the ways that we teach science, mathematics, and engineering education, and with opening these fields to a more diverse student bodyconcern about this waste of talent is heightened because these losses occur among the most highly qualified college entrants and are disproportionately greater among women and students of color, despite a serious national effort to improve their recruitment and retentionbased on a three-year, seven-campus study, the volume takes up the ongoing national debate about the quality of undergraduate education in these fields, offering explanations for net losses of students to non-science majorsgood overall conditionworking from extensive interviews with undergraduates, the authors are able to offer explanations for the loss of able students, including students of color and womenoxfam bookshop glossop road slight shelf wear to cover, ex-academic library stamps and stickers, slightly warped spinedata show that approximately 40 percent of undergraduate students leave engineering programs, 50 percent leave the physical and biological sciences, and 60 percent leave mathematics
20 €
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This intriguing book explores the reasons that lead undergraduates of above-average ability to switch from science, mathematics, and engineering majors into non-science majorsoxfam books & music totnes this book grew out of a three-year, seven-campus study aimed at explaining the national loss of 40 to 60 percent of undergraduates from science, mathematics, and engineering majors into non-science disciplinesconcern about this waste of talent is heightened because these losses occur among the most highly qualified college entrants and are disproportionately greater among women and students of colour, despite a serious national effort to improve their recruitment and retentionthis is a landmark study-an essential source book for all those concerned with changing the ways that we teach science, mathematics, and engineering education, and with opening these fields to a more diverse student bodytalking about leaving is richly illustrated with students' accounts of their own experiences in the sciencesthe authors' findings, culled from over 600 hours of ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions with undergraduates, explain the intended and unintended consequences of some traditional teaching practices and attitudesa landmark study, the volume is an essential source book for all those concerned with changing the ways that we teach science, mathematics, and engineering education, and with opening these fields to a more diverse student bodysee oxfam website for delivery information read moredata show that approximately 40 percent of undergraduate students leave engineering programs, 50 percent leave the physical and biological sciences, and 60 percent leave mathematicspaperback book in very good condition; clean, slightly scuffed around the edges, good binding and no internal markingsbased on a three-year, seven-campus study, the volume takes up the ongoing national debate about the quality of undergraduate education in these fields, offering explanations for net losses of students to non-science majorsworking from extensive interviews with undergraduates, the authors are able to offer explanations for the loss of able students, including students of colour and women
29 €
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All immaculate perfect for undergraduates or a levels! can deliver for petrol or post if buyer pays p&pjob lot of psychology textbooks, cost around £40 eachselling all of them for £50 or £10 each
50 €
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A number of post grad medical textbooks and old usmle revision books () also availablepreferably collection at stoke-on-trent/ birmingham£3-£10 per item (contact for individual price details, small item £3-5/book) price negotiable esp if bought in bundleused medical books (all in very good conditionsome with some annotation or minimal highlighting) for salesuitable for undergraduates/foundation doctors
5 €
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All books rrp £ - the complete collection for undergraduates and postgraduates
175 €
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"foundations of science" is suitable for courses on vision science in psychology, neuroscience, engineering or computer science departments, and is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate studentsthis section features two chapters that review computational and experimental studies of colour appearance, then motion and depthfinally, the book has an appendix consisting of four parts: an introduction to linear systems methods; a discussion of monitor calibration; an introduction to bayesian classifiers; and a discussion of optic flow computationtopics such as colour appearance, cortical colour-blindness, motion flow, motion appearance, motion physiology and visual illusions are also included in this part of the bookthe text contains special study exercises at the end of most chaptersoxfam bookshop wallingford designed for students, scientists and engineers interested in learning about the core ideas of vision science, this volume brings together the broad range of data and theory accumulated in this fieldthese chapters are followed by a chapter with many demonstrations concerning object perceptionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe first section consists of an introduction and three chapters that describe image encodingthe questions aim to enrich the main material and point the way to additional material in the literaturethe text's second section consists of four chapters on image representationthe third section reviews how to interpret images in terms of objectsthese chapters review optical image formation by the cornea and lens retinal sampling and wavelength-encoding by the photoreceptorsthe book consists of three sections and an appendix
9 €
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This wide-ranging textbook provides a clearly written and up-to-date account of these methods, suitable for both undergraduates and more advanced studentsconsequently, matrix methods comprise an important component in any 'tool kit' of applied mathematicsin addition, the book contains numerous exercises, together with answers, making it ideal for students in any field where matrices are usedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are a few marks to the page edge, mainly dust marks to the corner page edgethe aim is to provide a down-to-earth approach with results illustrated by many examples drawn from the areas of applicationthe cover corners are slightly bumped and there is minimal edge wear to the coveroxfam bookshop hampstead matrices: methods and applications by stephen barnett techniques of matrix theory find wide application throughout engineering and the physical, life, and social sciencesthe range of topics covered is large: from basic matrix algebra to advanced concepts such as generalised inverses and hadamard matrices, and applications to error-correcting codes, control theory, and linear programmingin very good conditionthe inside pages are clean and unmarked, though faded
20 €
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This broad coverage, the authors' clear presentation and the fact that the book has been thoroughly class-tested will increase its attraction to undergraduates at each stage of their studiesthe authors focus on the business of constructing solutions analytically, and interpreting their meaning, using rigorous analysis where neededsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book aims to enable the reader to develop the required skills needed for a thorough understanding of the subjecta large selection of exercises is provided, including several lengthier projects, some of which involve the use of matlabthere are many worked examples based on interesting and unusual real world problemsthe coverage is broad, ranging from basic second-order odes and pdes, through to techniques for nonlinear differential equations, chaos, asymptotics and control theoryoxfam books & music beeston cambridge university press, , paper back very good condition finding and interpreting the solutions of differential equations is a central and essential part of applied mathematicsmatlab is used extensively to illustrate the material
14 €
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It will be a vital resource not only for scholars and graduate students but also for undergraduates who are finding their way into this fascinating topicsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreanyone interested in the philosophy of emotion, and its wide-ranging implications in other related fields such as morality and aesthetics, will want to consult this bookthe volume addresses all the central philosophical issues in current emotion research, including: the nature of emotion and of emotional life; the history of emotion from plato to sartre; emotion and practical reason; emotion and the self; emotion, value, and morality; and emotion, art and aestheticsoxfam bookshop preston this volume contains thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from leading figures in the study of emotion today
27 €
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Philosophy undergraduates will find this an invaluable aid to study, one that goes beyond simple definitions and summaries to open up a new and stimulating range of ideasthe series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion to further studysee oxfam website for delivery information read morechristopher norris provides a lucid survey and analysis of the issues that have shaped that enterprise and continue to dominate present-day discussionhe also brings out with exceptional clarity the ways in which certain 'technical' issues in epistemology can have a decisive bearing on matters of practical concernnorris introduces the main topics of debate, among them arguments for and against adopting a realist position with regard to various fields of knowledge, from mathematics to the physical sciences and historythe text highlights continuities and contrasts between early and contemporary approaches, and between the sorts of thinking that have typified the mainstream analytic and the modern 'continental' lines of descentepistemology - inquiry into the nature, possibility and scope of human knowledge - has been at the heart of the philosophy from ancient greek times to the presentoxfam bookshop preston key concepts in philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and topics encountered in the study of philosophyspecially written to meet the needs of students and those with little prior knowledge of the subject, these books open up a whole range of important, yet often difficult ideas
24 €
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Veterinary undergraduates and veterinary practices will also find this an effective reference sourcesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreusing clear line diagrams and many photographs, practical radiography for veterinary nurses provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of radiography relevant to veterinary nurse training from s/nvq to diploma leveloxfam bookshop thame very good conditionkey points are highlighted throughout and a set of revision points and self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter make this not only an essential textbook but also an extremely useful quick reference for practice
39 €
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Given as sermons to trinity college undergraduates in the years following the author's breakdown in the 's, it illustrates the dangers of bad religion and the debilitating effects of a false view of godoxfam bookshop byres road the true wilderness has established itself as one of the spiritual classics of the 20th centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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On the other, it is an anthology of his work chosen with the specific aim of guiding readers, whether undergraduates, postgraduates, academics or general readers to bauman's original way of 'thinking sociologically', which is as irresistible as the 'liquid' metaphor that guides ithis work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with himsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear zygmunt bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directionsthe new bauman reader is two books in onein this book tony blackshaw doesn't just tell us that bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that of almost any other intellectual figure in the world today by offering his readers deep insights into the 'bauman effect'on the one hand, it is a critical introduction to a vital and inspiring sociologist who stands against the predictable in 'majority' sociology to draw out daring and new insights from which we can all learn
39 €
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"written for senior-year undergraduates and first-year graduate students with solid backgrounds in differential and integral calculus, this book is oriented toward engineers and applied mathematicians the pages show slight tanning and there are a couple of marks on the inside front coversoxfam shop wilmslow the cover is in good condition with slight edge damagethe spine is very faded but the binding is tight" (preface) see oxfam website for delivery information read morehowever the text is clear and bright
25 €