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The second edition of Peer-Led Team Learning General Chemistry maintains the underlying philosophy and approach of the first edition, i.e., active learning in peer-led groups engages students in the process of learning chemistry. This engagement results in improved understanding of chemistry concepts and the process of science. The peer-led group model also helps students develop the communication and teamwork skills that are critical in the twenty-first century workplace.
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Peer-Led Team Learning: General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry
Pratibha Varma-Nelson ,
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Peer-Led Team Learning: A Handbook for Team Leader (2nd Edition)
Vicki Roth ,
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Peer-Led Team Learning is an innovate model in science education. Student leaders (peers) guide the activities of small groups of students in weekly Workshop meetings. The students work through challenging problems that are designed to be solved cooperatively. The peer leaders are trained to ensure that the students are actively and productively engaged with the material and with each other. This methodology offers a number of educational opportunities: the supportive format encourages questions and discussions that lead to conceptual understanding; students learn to work in teams and to communicate more effectively; peer leaders learn teaching and group management skills.
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Peer-Led Team Learning: General, Organic, & Biological Chemistry (2nd Edition)
Pratibha Varma-Nelson , and
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This book uses a supportive format which encourages questions and discussions that lead to conceptual understanding.
This comprehensive, versatile book covers measurement and unit conversions, nuclear chemistry, chemical bonds, stoichiometry, gases, solution, liquids and solids, acids and bases, oxidation, nomenclature, lipids, enzymes, and much more.
For anyone interested in General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry.
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Progress and the Invisible Hand: The Philosophy and Economics of Human Advance
Richard Bronk
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What is progress? In Richard Bronk's brilliant analytical study, he separates the material progress of a nation from the more problematic progress in human happiness and welfare. Questioning many of the basic assumptions behind our headlong pursuit of progress, Bronk's disquieting conclusion is that if we continue to destroy the necessary balance between social cooperation and individual pursuit of self-interest, that humanity will be left at the mercy of the market—condemned to be its slave rather than its master. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this book is of absorbing interest not only to economists and philosophers, but also to anyone who is worried about the direction in which society is moving.
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To what end human labor?.......2001-05-31
Tracing the elements of 21st century socio-economic forces, from its roots in greek philosophy to the rhetoric espoused nightly on television by modern polemics, Richard Bronk uses his book to dismantle common notions about the wisdom of building a global "free market" and of ignoring the social and environmental systems that are neglected or undermined by an unregulated market economy.
Bronk charts a course through western history, revealing how the foundation of a belief in progress was first constructed. An essential point is how the idea of progress first came to be separated from the idea of happiness, and is best described by Aristotle's paradox quoted in the book; "Instruction and emancipation in one way favor happiness, and in another militate against it. To increase a person's chances of happiness, in the sense of fullness of life, is eo ipso to decrease his chances of happiness, in the sense of satisfaction of desire."
In Bronk's view this is the central dilemma that civilization accepted when it chose scientific enlightenment and material gains over an essentially low growth philosophy of relative material subsistence and social stability. By moving out of a primitive existence, where few material goods were pursued or desired the age old equilibrium of humanity and nature were slowly thrown awry. To improve, formal societies now needed to expand their use of non-food resources, concentrating on making tools to secure the food supply, weapons for territorial expansion, or tools that made new tools. Humans had decided to accept Aristotle's paradox.
Fast forward to the present and humans are masters of the planet. Food, once the primary resource needed, now accounts for a fraction of human desires. An increasing panorama of products now push the average western citizen to specialize his knowledge into a single set of goods producing activity, and to perform this activity ever more efficiently. Laborers are forced to accommodate the ever faster and efficient business cycle, and the beneficial aspects of Aristotle's paradox begin to be lost. In addition to an increasing disability to fulfill material wants there is less time for human needs: family, community, self-knowledge, shared ideas and relaxation. The very things man desires most, must now be sacrificed in the name of economic growth at the expense of social values that are no longer accounted for in the measure of human progress. In fact, most humans are no longer accounted for in the idea of progress. What's counted is now a tool that is seen an essential catalyst to progress. Money.
This is a big concept to outline as it defines most of what human history has been about. Improvement in understanding and control of the world is seen as the quintessential human impulse. That serving such desire blindly could lead to our destruction is Bronk's ultimate point, and he builds towards it with a lucid analysis of critical twists in human history, the culmination of which is the triumph of rationalism during the Enlightenment and the emergence of formal economics from the mind of Adam Smith. Here Bronk pauses to set the record straight on what the master of markets had to say about his vision of an "invisible hand" that could seamlessly direct humankind's efforts towards the greatest benefit for all. It seems much of Smiths legacy has been obscured by later scholars piecemeal borrowings of his theories (such as David Ricardo) or a persistent lack of examination of the full body of his work. The fact that Smith outlined a framework of laws, rules, regulations and public works to be administered to contain his "free market" and make sure that a significant slice of the profits were distributed for the common good (hence, serving the essential purpose of valuing efficiency over social factors by redirecting the profits to both the more efficient party and the displaced party), seems to have escaped most free marketers and modern scholars. Without this social compact Smith outlined, his invisible hand would merely become a cult of self-interest, not an agent of social good.
The last third of the book describes mainly 20th century economics and a move towards a global economy. Keynes forces the recognition of the limits of markets to "maximize the social good" in light of the free fast growth markets of the 20's derailing into a long period of stagnation known as the Great Depression. In the last chapters, Bronk attempts to show how the operation of unregulated markets largely disenfranchises most of society by infringing unfairly on their non-financial well-being. The race for profit and efficiency can no longer be adapted to without real social and environmental costs. As these costs increase the value of economic growth decreases to the point that even the most wealthy will find the process harmful as all global systems break down under the strain of market "externalities". Mainly, the planet, society and human welfare got in the way of making money.
Aristotle's paradox is complete. Humans as a race now have vast knowledge and material goods, but are unsatisfied with those they already possess, and chase ever more desires they can never fulfill, with little time for reflection on their dilemma. In the process, the environment is ravaged and class warfare is brewing as the uneven distribution of wealth, and sacrifice to create it, reaches new peaks....
This is a serious well-written book. Its scope is enormous and its message vital to our times. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics and philosophy should have little problem following Bronk's assertions. Even lacking this knowledge, Bronk provides plenty of well-explained factual passages to grant context to the reader. What Bronk excels at is choosing the right facts and building on them clearly and concisely. The book is only 239 pages, but the body of facts and arguments is solid, stirring and evocative to anyone concerned about where and how humankind's past struggles forged the road we are traveling, and who may worry that these processes unchecked may pave over everything we really value.
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Jewish humor mirrors the minds and hearts of the Jewish people. It reflects their joys and sorrows, hopes and disappointments. Perhaps most significant, it demonstrates their willingness to poke fun at themselves, which has no doubt enabled Jews to endure centuries of hardship with head held high and a smile on their collective face.
In the Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor, hailed as a landmark work when first published, Henry D. Spalding presents delightful anecdotes, quips, jokes, and yarns featuring the colorful folk who have added spice and spirit to Jewish life from biblical to modern times. Some of the selections are pungent, many are scornful of deceit and pretense, others are alive with brotherhood. Most are just downright hilarious.
In thirty-nine chapters, Spalding allows forty centuries of Jewish life to speak through characters we have all grown to love. Here, you'll find the itinerant shnorrer who arrives in a small Lithuanian town late one Friday afternoon with no place to stay; the Yiddishe papa whose task it is to instruct little Mortie in the ways of the birds and bees; the congregant whose life's goal, it seems, is to make his rabbi miserable; the hypochondriac who complains of ailments as yet undiscovered. The author (re)introduces us to the shlemiels and shlimazls, rebbes and rebbetzins, mamas and papas, doctors and patients, marriage brokers and divorce lawyers, yeshiva students and sisterhood presidents whose peculiar antics never fail to entertain.
In the preface to this classic work, Henry Spalding writes that the surest way to destroy humor is to analyze it. So no more analyzing...Now it's time to read a little something!
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The classic work on Jewish humor.......2007-02-18
This is the definitve work on all of the old Jewish stories and/or jokes which your parents knew. A must have
Encyclpedia of jewish humour.......2006-02-25
In my opinion this book should be on the shelves of every Jewish family ,not just for display but as a study and reference ,
Informative, but not funny.......2006-02-23
There is much to learn about Jewish slang and the structure of Jewish humor in this collection, but the author has a knack for taking funny material and making it sound stupid. Let me give an example by relating one of my favorite Jewish jokes, in my own words.
Hymie and Sophie owned a little convenience store in a nice Jewish neighborhood, and they made a nice living. However, the neighborhood began to change, the Jews moving to the suburbs and a wave of Catholic immigrants replaced them, working in the growing factories around the city. Their business fell to almost nothing. One day Hymie says to Sophie [please add Yiddish accent here and throughout], "you know, if we were Catholics, we would get our business back." So the next day the couple went to the local Catholic church and professed their desire to become Catholics. Father O'Reilly was suspicious and put the pair through months of study and service, but the couple pulled through with honors. On the Sunday they were to be baptized, the whole Catholic community attended, each in his or her best attire. Hymie and Sophie looked radiant. They knelt before the alter, ate the wafer, and the good Father O'Reilly blessed them. Three times to each he said, "you're a Catholic," sprinkling the water on them. There followed a great feast and celebration.
Well, business did pick up. The couple were doing so well that one day Hymie said, "You know, Sophie [add Yiddish accent] we must invite the priest to dinner." Father O'Reilly accepted with pleasure, and showed up Friday evening for dinner. The had some wine and hors d'oeuvres, and Sophie came out of the kitchen with the steaming piece de resistance: a magnificent pot roast. Father O'Reilly was horrified. "After all your studies, you don't remember that you must eat fish on Friday!" Sophie, mortified, quickly regained her composure. Taking some water from the pitcher, she stood over the pot roast, intoning "You're a fish, you're a fish, you're a fish" while sprinkling the steaming dish.
Now, that is a funny joke! Forever after, when you want to say that you can't change the leopard's spots in Jewish, you just say "You're a fish."
What is the joke like in the book? It occurs on page 61. I won't repeat the whole joke, but only the last three paragraphs. "This is disgraceful!" cried the indignant priest. "Didn't you promise to abstain from eating meat on Friday?" "Meat? Who's eating meat?" answered the other blandly. "This is gefilteh fish." "You must take me for a fool!" snapped the outraged priest. "How can anyone make fish out of meat?" "The same way you made a Catholic out of a Jew," answered the convert smoothly. "I sprinkled water on it!."
Isn't that just awful? Lots of adverbs and adjectives ("indignant" "outraged" "smoothly"...) but no subtlety. I invite someone to take these joke and restore their humor.
By the way, if you liked my version of the joke, someday I'll tell you "I Could Have Saved Mama". Now that's a funny joke.
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Laugh and learn more about the Bible!
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The Encyclopedia of Biblical Humor
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Nelson's Amazing Bible Trivia, Book Three
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Nelson's Amazing Bible Trivia, Book Three continues the success of this exciting series! Bible scholar and humorist Lowell Streiker brings his wisdom and wit to this volume of amazing and interesting Bible facts. Have more fun with your Bible Study today!
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