Search Results - "New Tricks"

New tricks : reflections on a life in medicine and tertiary education / by Larkins, Richard

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Refiguring the ordinary by Weiss, Gail, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Context and perspective -- Ambiguity, absurdity, and reversibility: three responses to indeterminacy -- Reading/writing between the lines -- The body as a narrative horizon -- Can an old dog learn new tricks? habitual horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty -- Imagining the horizon -- City limits -- Urban flesh -- Death and the other: rethinking authenticity -- Challenging choices -- Mothers/intellectuals: alterities of a dual identity.…”
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The little black book of decision making : making complex decisions with confidence in a fast-moving world by Nicholas, Michael, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Introduction -- No place for old dogs : new tricks required -- Let's get real : we all make mistakes -- Rule makers, rule breakers -- Coping with an era of acceleration -- Mindset matters! …”
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The Great Brain Debate : Nature or Nurture?. by Dowling, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; THE GREAT BRAIN DEBATE; Title; Copyright; For the next generation--Madison, Quincy, Grace, and Olivia; CONTENTS; Introduction; Part I--The Developing Brain; 1 Building a Brain; 2 Maturing a Brain; 3 Developing Behaviors; Part II--The Adult Brain; 4 Teaching Older Dogs New Tricks; 5 Controversies: New Neurons and Genes and Behavior; Part III--The Aging Brain; 6 Is Aging of the Brain a Disease?…”
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Boomers and Beyond : Reconsidering the Role of Libraries. by Rothstein, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…PART THREE: LIBRARIANS' PERSPECTIVESChapter 11: CONVERSATIONS AND THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GENERATIONS; Chapter 11: CONVERSATIONS AND THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GENERATIONS; Chapter 12: OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS; Chapter 12: OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS; Chapter 13: MUSINGS ON CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIANS IN 2040; Chapter 13: MUSINGS ON CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIANS IN 2040; Contributors; Contributors; Index; Index; Back Cover; Back Cover.…”
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Gunslinging justice : the American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law by Joyce, Justin A.

Table of Contents: “…Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the warp, woof, and weave of American gun violence -- 'A kind of wild justice': revenge and constitutional commentary in the Western -- No retreat: American self-defense doctrine -- American gun rights: from national defense to self-defense -- The guns that 'won the Western': firearm iconography in Western literature and film -- Guns and governmentality: normative masculinity and disciplined gun violence -- 'Deserve's got [everything] to do with it': property, process, and justice in Unforgiven -- Old dogs and new tricks: race and justifiable homicide in neoliberalism's Western imagination -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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British naval aviation : the first 100 years

Table of Contents: “…: the Royal Naval Air Service at war / Eric Grove -- Competing visions : the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the role of airpower / Geoffrey Till -- The Fleet Air Arm and the struggle for the Mediterranean, 1940-1944 / Ben Jones -- New tricks for old sea dogs : British naval aviation in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Jon Robb-Webb -- British naval aviation and the Radical Review, 1953-1955 / Tim Benbow -- Limited war and crisis management : naval aviation in action from the Korean War to the Falklands Conflict / Ian Speller -- The battle for CVA01 / Edward Hampshire -- "More than just spare airfields" : defence policy, defence reviews and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers / Lee Willett.…”
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Integrated measurement-- KPIs and metrics for ITSM : a narrative account by McLean, Daniel (ITSM Consultant)

Table of Contents: “…Preface; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: So Easy Even a Child Could Do It; Chapter 2: I'd Thought Things Were Going Rather Well; Chapter 3: Try to Get it Right this Time; Chapter 4: The Trivial Many Versus the Meaningful Few; Chapter 5: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks; Chapter 6: Every Journey Begins with a Destination; Chapter 7: Friend or Foe?…”
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Intertwinings : interdisciplinary encounters with Merleau-Ponty

Table of Contents: “…Locke -- "Mixing the outside with the inside": interior geographies and domestic horizons in Gertrude Stein / Justine Dymond -- Beyond recognition: Merleau-Ponty and the ethics of vision / Kelly Oliver -- Ethical reciprocity at the interstices of communion and disruption / Sally Fischer -- Merleau-Ponty, reciprocity, and the reversibility of perspectives / Greg Johnson -- Entering the place we already live: a phenomenology of female voice / Janice McLane -- Resources for feminist care ethics in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body / Maurice Hamington -- Can an old dog learn new tricks? habitual horizons in James, Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty / Gail Weiss -- The borderlands of identity and culture / Rashmika Pandya -- Entwining the body of the world: architectural design and experience in the ligh of "eye and mind" / Rachel McCann.…”
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The implicit genome

Table of Contents: “…Eukaryotic transposable elements: teaching old genomes new tricks / Susan R. Wessler -- Immunoglobulin recombination signal sequences: somatic and evolutionary functions / Ellen Hsu -- Somatic evolution of antibody genes / Rupert Beale and Dagmar Iber -- Regulated and unregulated recombination of G-rich genomic regions / Nancy Maizels -- The role of the genome in the initiation of meiotic recombination / Rhona H. …”
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Advanced google adwords by Geddes, Brad

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New Microbial Technologies for Advanced Biofuels : Toward More Sustainable Production Methods

Table of Contents: “…Cover; About the Editor; Contents; Acknowledgment and How to Cite; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: Overview; Part I: Microorganisms; Chapter 2: Selection of Organisms for Systems Biology Study of Microbial Electricity Generation: A Review; Chapter 3: From Tiny Microalgae to Huge Biorefineries; Chapter 4: Yeast Biotechnology: Teaching the Old Dog New Tricks; Chapter 5: Microbial Community Structures Differentiated in a Single-Chamber Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cell Fueled with Rice Straw Hydrolysate.…”
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Criminal Defiance in Europe and Beyond : From Organised Crime to Crime-Terror Nexus. by van Duyne, Petrus C.

Table of Contents: “…An analysis of obstacles to collecting reliable data -- Old dogs, new tricks: The use of technology by Italian archaeological looters -- The rocker phenomenon in Germany: Perceptions and government responses to outlaw bikers in an historical perspective -- The retribution of the Erinyes: Combatting outlaw motorcycle gangs from the perspective of 'undermining' criminality -- Betwixt and between: Examining the evolution of the crimeterror nexus…”
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Groups combinatorics & geometry : Durham 2001

Table of Contents: “…Praeger -- Old groups can learn new tricks / László Pyber -- Shadows of elements, solvability of finite quotients and the Margulis-Platonov conjecture / Yoav Segev -- Applications of random generation to residual properties of some infinite groups / Aner Shalev -- Low dimensional representations of finite quasisimple groups / Pham Huu Tiep -- Structure and presentations of Lie-type groups / F.G. …”
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Aging, media, and culture

Table of Contents: “…Marshall -- Social/new media -- Learning new tricks : the use of social media in later life / Kelly Quinn -- Polite pigs and emotional elves : age in digital worlds / Rosa Mikeal Martey -- Afterwords -- "Time to grow up" : the study of media and aging as a field in its infancy / Cornel Sandvoss -- A view from gerontology / Merril Silverstein.…”
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The Lives of Campus Custodians : Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy. by Magolda, Peter M.

Table of Contents: “…Having a Dog's Chance -- Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks -- Dog-ma -- Epilogue -- Compton University Staff Updates -- Harrison University Staff Updates -- Miami University Staff Updates -- Appendix A: Research Methodologies and Methods -- Philosophical Foundations -- Influences on Fieldwork Methods -- Writing -- Goodness Criteria -- Appendix B: Unsanitized Tales from the Field -- Omissions Accomplished -- Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread -- Conclusion -- References -- Index…”
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Publishing for Profit : Successful Bottom-Line Management for Book Publishers. by Woll, Thomas

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Making Humour Work : Taking Your Job Seriously and Yourself Lightly. by Crisp, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…AND “POPPERSâ€?""; ""OLD DOGS AND NEW TRICKS""; ""AVOID THE THREE Pâ€?S""…”
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Education and Learning : An Evidence-Based Approach. by Mellanby, Jane

Table of Contents: “…. -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Life-long Learning: How Can We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? -- What Declines with Age and What Does Not? …”
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Teaching adults by Hayes, Amanda

Table of Contents: “…; Why adults return to education; Can you teach an old dog new tricks?; Preferred learning styles; Education in the ''school of life''; Adult students'' expectations of the course; 2 A curriculum for work and life; So what is the purpose of education for adults?…”
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