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The technique of allometry investigates the effects of size on such variables as food intake, energy requirements, growth rates and age at first reproduction. This book brings together much of what is known about the consequences of size and provides a new and mathematically rigorous framework within which many quantitative predictions are made and tested using published and unpublished data. Explanations are proposed for many previously unexplained phenomena such as why in some species females are thousands of times heavier than males, whereas in no species are males more than about eight times heavier than females. The models presented afford a synthesis of the effects of size and open up pathways for further theoretical investigation and experimental testing. Care has been taken to give verbal presentations of all the mathematical conclusions to ensure that the text is widely intelligible.

Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing was first published in 1986 and became an instant classic among scientists, engineers, and social scientists. In this book the original, time-tested programs have been completely reworked into a clear, consistent Pascal style. This represents a significant improvement to the immensely successful programs contained in the first edition, which were originally written in Fortran. The authors make extensive use of pointers, dynamic memory allocation, and other features utilized by this language. The explanatory text accompanying the programs replicates the lucid, and easy-to-read prose found in the original version, and incorporates corrections, improvements, and explanations of special Pascal features. The product of a unique collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry, Numerical Recipes in Pascal fills a long-recognized need for a practical, comprehensive handbook of scientific computing in the Pascal la

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After 25 years of expansion and liberalisation in the post-war period, social security policies in industrial countries have been encountering stresses and strains in the 1970s and 1980s in an environment of slower economic growth, concern over inflation and high unemployment. This has led to intensified controversy between conservatives, who blame economic instability on the generosity of the welfare state and liberals who defend the role of social security programmes in contributing to economic stability and preventing people from falling into poverty. The discussion focuses on questions such as the relative merits of earnings-related, income-tested and universal benefits; who bears the financial burden; and the impact of social security benefits on incentives to work. Among the controversial issues receiving considerable attention are the arguments over the persistence of high unemployment in Western Europe, the attacks on 'entitlements' that benefit the middle class and the growing

For almost a century, educational theory and practice have been influenced by the view of behavioural psychologists that learning is synonymous with behaviour change. In this book, the authors argue for the practical importance of an alternate view, that learning is synonymous with a change in the meaning of experience. They develop their theory of the conceptual nature of knowledge and describe classroom-tested strategies for helping students to construct new and more powerful meanings and to integrate thinking, feeling, and acting. In their research, they have found consistently that standard educational practices that do not lead learners to grasp the meaning of tasks usually fail to give them confidence in their abilities. It is necessary to understand why and how new information is related to what one already knows. All those concerned with the improvement of education will find something of interest in Learning How to Learn.

This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The heart of the radical Newtonian style is the construction on the mind of a mathematical system that has some features in common with the physical world; this system s then modified when the deductions and conclusions drawn from it are tested against the physical universe. Using this system Newton was able to make his revolutionary innovations in celestial mechanics and, ultimately, create a new physics of central forces and the law of universal gravitation. Building on his analysis of Newton's methodology, Professor Cohen explores the fine structu

In this first volume of a projected trilogy, the author argues that a methodology adequate to solve the long-standing debate over the status of the social as against the natural sciences can be constructed in terms of a fourhold distinction between the reportage, explanation, description and evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction rests on an analysis of the scope and nature of social theory which is not only original in conception but far-reaching in its implications for the assessment of the results of sociological, anthropological and historical research. In this volume, there are set out the separate and distinctive criteria by which the reports, explanations, descriptions and evaluations put forward by social scientists of rival theoretical schools require to be tested. These criteria will then be applied in Volume II to a substantive theory of social relations, social structure and social evolution, and in Volume III to a detailed analysis of the society of twentieth-centu

Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real world. Instead of testing policies by analytical methods or by laboratory simulation, the policies are tested on people who would be affected were these policies implemented. The authors describe how such social experiments are set up and carried out, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of social experimentation relative to other means of evaluating economic and social policies. The main part of the book is a review and a critical evaluation of the principal social experiments in economics that have been carried out in the United States, where this method has been used most extensively. The authors examine in detail the first large-scale experiment in the United States (the New Jersey Income Maintenance Experiment) and subsequent experiments with the labour force, electricity rates, and cash housing allowances. A consideration of the social utility of soci

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In this 1970 introduction to philosophy Mr Taylor concentrates on two central topics - explanation and meaning. He takes the argument far enough to acquaint the reader first-hand with the methods and approach of analytical philosophy, and yet because of the scope of these two topics he is able to introduce many of the traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and logic. By this approach he avoids the dangers both of superficiality and of undue technicality. Philosophers are concerned to analyse and describe certain concepts and modes of argument, not to establish facts or conclusions of any sort that can be tested by formal demonstration or controlled observation; their findings cannot be conveniently categorized or graded into a comprehensive and progressive course of studies. Mr Taylor meets this difficulty with his extended discussions of specific topics and questions which have implications over the whole subject.

The education Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (formerly the Science Teaching Center) was established to study the process of instruction, aids thereto, and the learning process itself, with special reference to science teaching at the university level. Generous support from the National Science Foundation and from the Kettering, Shell, Victoria, W. T. Grant, and Bing Foundations provided the means for assembling and maintaining an experienced staff to cooperate with members of the Institute's Physics Department in the examination, improvement, and development of physics curriculum materials for students planning a career in the sciences.After careful analysis of objectives and the problems involved, preliminary versions of textbooks were prepared, tested through classroom use at M.I.T. and other institutions, re-evaluated, rewritten, and tried again. Only then were the final manuscripts undertaken.In general the books in the series will be brief. Most may b

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對於婚姻生活，特別有孩子的家庭來說，最重要的就是在夫妻二人之間還有“愛”的存在，當然它不可能仍是火花四濺的，或是激情四射的，畢竟火花只存在於戀愛期。但無論如何，“愛”的存在，是一件非常重要的事情，它可能是一種習慣，也或者是一種由愛情和親情組合而成的複雜情感。只要這種感覺還存在著，無論時間如何推移，或是有幾個小孩，那個氛圍就還是存在著的。這就是這兩本詩集給我的最大感受。雖然作者在文字間隙透露出很多的無可奈何和抱怨，想做的事做不了、想睡的覺睡不著，但是我們仍然可以在字裡行間中感受到“愛”的存在。原因就在於，如果已經沒有愛，那些對於生活中的觀察，是寫不出來的，即使是詩中出現的“寬鬆的內褲，松垮的羊毛衫”，都是觀察後才能寫出的內容，如果一個人對另一個人沒有了愛，這些細節是不會被觀察到，甚至是不被注意到的。從作者的詩歌中不難發現，他是一個觀察入微，內心細膩的丈夫和父親，因為他可以把很多細節寫進詩裡，讓人不自覺地在讀到它的時候會心一笑，並頻頻點頭感歎：就是這樣啊！在for married people這本書裡，其中I ask my coworker, Tim, who doesn't have children, how hi weekend was這首詩裡，未婚與有娃已婚人士的週末顯然有著很明顯的差別，而作者將這種差別用最通俗易懂的方式描述的淋漓盡致，令人忍俊不禁。Our love is tested in traffic也是一首很寫實的詩，已婚人士出門猶如打仗一般屁滾尿流，無法做到灑脫的說走就走，那麼這些火急火燎的情緒從何處發洩呢？當然是糟糕的交通狀況中。我們為什麼不提前點出門？你為什麼不提前把路況看好？你為什麼出門前這麼磨蹭？可以說是非常寫實了。還有諸如此類的一些小詩，都可以引發很多共鳴。作者用很詼諧的方式表達了現實的婚姻生活：在難得有機會獨享一個人的時光時的暢快，在忙碌工作結束後的週末仍要與柴米油鹽打交道的無奈等等……這些看似是在抱怨的背後因為有“愛”的支撐而完美化解，這在最後作者獻給妻子的文字中得到了很好的體現。這就是生活，是你人生中的其中一項選擇，而愛就是一切的答案。婚姻生活是瑣碎，但是和有孩子的生活比起來，簡直小菜一碟。有娃與沒有娃的婚姻生活絕對是天差地別，尤其在孩子還很小的時候，如果你選擇自己帶娃，那麼短時間之內，請先和電影院、商場、公園說再見吧！孩子將成為佔據

對於婚姻生活，特別有孩子的家庭來說，最重要的就是在夫妻二人之間還有“愛”的存在，當然它不可能仍是火花四濺的，或是激情四射的，畢竟火花只存在於戀愛期。但無論如何，“愛”的存在，是一件非常重要的事情，它可能是一種習慣，也或者是一種由愛情和親情組合而成的複雜情感。只要這種感覺還存在著，無論時間如何推移，或是有幾個小孩，那個氛圍就還是存在著的。這就是這兩本詩集給我的最大感受。雖然作者在文字間隙透露出很多的無可奈何和抱怨，想做的事做不了、想睡的覺睡不著，但是我們仍然可以在字裡行間中感受到“愛”的存在。原因就在於，如果已經沒有愛，那些對於生活中的觀察，是寫不出來的，即使是詩中出現的“寬鬆的內褲，松垮的羊毛衫”，都是觀察後才能寫出的內容，如果一個人對另一個人沒有了愛，這些細節是不會被觀察到，甚至是不被注意到的。從作者的詩歌中不難發現，他是一個觀察入微，內心細膩的丈夫和父親，因為他可以把很多細節寫進詩裡，讓人不自覺地在讀到它的時候會心一笑，並頻頻點頭感歎：就是這樣啊！在for married people這本書裡，其中I ask my coworker, Tim, who doesn't have children, how hi weekend was這首詩裡，未婚與有娃已婚人士的週末顯然有著很明顯的差別，而作者將這種差別用最通俗易懂的方式描述的淋漓盡致，令人忍俊不禁。Our love is tested in traffic也是一首很寫實的詩，已婚人士出門猶如打仗一般屁滾尿流，無法做到灑脫的說走就走，那麼這些火急火燎的情緒從何處發洩呢？當然是糟糕的交通狀況中。我們為什麼不提前點出門？你為什麼不提前把路況看好？你為什麼出門前這麼磨蹭？可以說是非常寫實了。還有諸如此類的一些小詩，都可以引發很多共鳴。作者用很詼諧的方式表達了現實的婚姻生活：在難得有機會獨享一個人的時光時的暢快，在忙碌工作結束後的週末仍要與柴米油鹽打交道的無奈等等……這些看似是在抱怨的背後因為有“愛”的支撐而完美化解，這在最後作者獻給妻子的文字中得到了很好的體現。這就是生活，是你人生中的其中一項選擇，而愛就是一切的答案。婚姻生活是瑣碎，但是和有孩子的生活比起來，簡直小菜一碟。有娃與沒有娃的婚姻生活絕對是天差地別，尤其在孩子還很小的時候，如果你選擇自己帶娃，那麼短時間之內，請先和電影院、商場、公園說再見吧！孩子將成為佔據

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