Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (Stone Deborah)(Paperback)

Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (Stone Deborah)(Paperback)

In a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near-civil war about election results, Deborah Stone's Counting promises to transform how we think about numbers. Contrary to what you learned in kindergarten, counting is more art than arithmetic. In fact, numbers are just as much

The Uncounted (Cobham Alex)(Paperback)

What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you're not counted, you don't count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of damaging

Your Cholesterol Matters: What Your Numbers Mean and How You Can Improve Them (Furman Richard MD Facs)(Paperback)

Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (Krippendorff Klaus)(Paperback)

What matters in people's social lives? What motivates and inspires our society? How do we enact what we know? Since the first edition published in 1980, Content Analysis has helped shape and define the field. In the highly anticipated Fourth Edition, award-winning scholar and author Klaus

I Know Numbers!: (Counting Books for Kids, Children's Number Books) (Gomi Taro)(Pevná vazba)

How do we love numbers? Let us count the ways: They're on street signs and bus stops, featured on phones, thermometers, chalkboards, and scales. They show the time and the date, and help us to measure distance, sizing, and so much more. This spirited picture book by beloved author-illustrator Taro

Values and Music Education (Jorgensen Estelle R.)(Paperback)

What values should form the foundation of music education? And once we decide on those values, how do we ensure we are acting on them?In Values and Music Education, esteemed author Estelle R. Jorgensen explores how values apply to the practice of music education. We may declare values, but they can

How to Use Financial Statements: A Guide to Understanding the Numbers (Bandler James)(Paperback)

How to Use Financial Statements explains in clear, easy to understand methods how to read a financial statement. Written for the non-financial professional, this book is ideal for: Professionals that have been promoted to a job that requires reviewing financial statements Investors that have

Innovation: A Very Short Introduction (Dodgson Mark)(Paperback)

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150 years our world has hit an accelerated rate of

A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters (Hayes Steven C.)(Paperback)

Make Time - How to focus on what matters every day (Knapp Jake)(Paperback / softback)

Ethics Matters (Vardy Charlotte)(Paperback)

How do we know the difference between right and wrong? How can we make decisions about issues from germ-line genetic engineering to the regulation of banking, from nuclear power to ethnic bioweapons, from end-of-life care to global warming? What does it mean to live a good life? Ethics Matters

Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters (Safi Omid)(Paperback)

Who was Muhammad? What do we know historically, and does that differ from how he is seen by his followers and venerated today? Memories of Muhammad presents Muhammad as a lens through which to view both the genesis of Islamic religion and the grand sweep of Islamic history--right up to the hot

Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers (Pallotta Jerry)(Paperback)

With his trademark humor and wit, Jerry Pallotta teaches young readers how to count to 50 by odd numbers, using weird and wonderful ocean animals as counting tools. Explore the ocean as you meet 13 surf clams, 29 mussels, 49 smelts, and

Compassion: Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy (Gilbert Paul)(Paperback)

What is compassion, how does it affect the quality of our lives and how can we develop compassion for ourselves and others? Humans are capable of extreme cruelty but also considerable compassion. Often neglected in Western psychology, this book looks at how compassion may have evolved, and is

Numerology, Orion Plain and Simple (Christie Anne)(Paperback / softback)

A practical guide on how to use numbers to explain your

Recycling! (Stockham Jess)(Paperback)

What can we recycle? Who can sort the waste? What can we re-use? Helping with real tasks is a natural progression from pretend play, and is a crucial stage in a child's development. Achieving a shared goal encourages a sense of responsibility, and develops many skills useful in later life. Simple

Art of Gathering - How We Meet and Why It Matters (Parker Priya)(Paperback / softback)

We spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the

Fashionopolis: Why What We Wear Matters (Thomas Dana)(Paperback)

*NYTBR Paperback Row Selection * The Independent's Best Fashion Book on Sustainability* An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions

Black Vodka (Levy Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

How does love change us? How do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. From London gardens to a forest outside Prague, these are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour, about

Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe (Gruenfeld Deborah)(Paperback)

'A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful.'--Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet We all know what it looks like to use power badly. But how much do we really know about how to use power well? There is so much we get wrong about power: who has it, what it

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge (Collins Harry)(Paperback)

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called 'tacit knowledge' by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins

Grammar for Literacy: CfE (Cooper Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Grammar matters. Understand how to use and structure language correctly to make your meaning

How We Hope: A Moral Psychology (Martin Adrienne)(Paperback)

What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? In How We Hope, Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives. She contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and

The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? (Watzlawick Paul)(Paperback)

This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological 'realities' are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the 'real' realities. Contributors include Ernst von Glaserfeld (known for his cognitive studies with chimpanzees); cybeneticist Heinz von Foerster; David L