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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-91).
• Describes forty-five unusual, but actual, inventions, some of which worked, some of which failed, after inviting the reader to guess their purposes from pictures. Sequel to Weird and Wacky Inventions.

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• Inventions — Juvenile literature.
• Inventions — Miscellanea.
• Inventions.
• Juvenile works. fast (OCoLC)fst01411637
• Miscellanea. fast (OCoLC)fst01423854

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• iDisorder: why are we all acting crazy? — Media starts with me — Obsessively checking in with your technology…24/7 — Getting high on technology: hooked on smartphones, social networking, and texting — The ups (and downs) of leading a cyberlife — Sorry I missed the meeting…I went to check my e-mail and the next thing I knew it was two hours later — Communication 101: safety (and training) behind the screen — You only think you’re dying: when pain is just pain — Does my profile pic make me look fat? New media and our relationship with our appearance — Delusions, hallucinations, and social avoidance: is technology making us appear schizo ? — We like to watch — It’s all in your mind.
• IDisorder: changes to your brain’s ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders–such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and expertise in the psychology of technology, Dr. Larry Rosen offers clear, down-to-earth explanations for why many of us are suffering from an iDisorder. Rosen offers solid, proven strategies to help us overcome the iDisorder we all feel in our lives while still making use of all that technology offers. Our world is not going to change, and technology will continue to penetrate society even deeper leaving us little chance to react to the seemingly daily additions to our lives. Rosen teaches us how to stay human in an increasingly technological world — Provided by publisher.

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• Information technology — Psychological aspects.
• Internet addiction.

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• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. 1: Learning the craft / Mary Knudson — Finding story ideas and sources / Philip M. Yam — Reporting from science journals / Tom Siegfried — Understanding and using statistics / Lewis Cope — Writing well about science: techniques from teachers of science writing — Taking your story to the next level / Nancy Shute — Finding a voice and a style / David Everett — pt. 2: Choosing your market / Carey Goldberg — Small newspapers / Ron Seely — Large newspapers / Robert Lee Hotz — Popular magazines / Janice Hopkins Tanne — Trade and science journals / Colin Norman — Broadcast science journalism / Joe Palca — Freelance writing / Kathryn Brown — Science books / Carl Zimmer — Popular audiences on the web / Alan Boyle — Science audiences on the web / Tabitha Powledge — Science editing / Mariette DiChristina — pt. 3: Varying your writing style / Robin Marantz Henig — Deadline writing / Gareth Cook — Investigative reporting / Antonio Regalado — Gee whiz science writing / Robert Kunzig — Explanatory writing / George Johnson — Narrative writing / James Shreeve — The science essay / Robert Kanigel — pt. 4: Covering stories in the life sciences / Deborah Blum — Medicine / Shannon Brownlee — Infectious diseases / Marilyn Chase — Nutrition / Sally Squires — Mental health / Paul Raeburn — The biology of behavior / Kevin Begos — Human genetics / Antonio Regalado — pt. 5: Covering stories in the physical and environmental sciences / Deborah Blum — Technology and engineering / Kenneth Chang — Space science / Michael D. Lemonick — The environment / Andrew C. Revkin — Nature / McKay Jenkins — Earth sciences / Glennda Chui — Climate / Usha Lee McFarling — Risk reporting / Cristine Russell — Taking a different path: journalists and public information officers / the editors — pt. 6: Communicating science from institutions / John D. Toon — Universities / Earle Holland — Institutional communications during crisis / Joann Ellison Rodgers — Government agencies / Colleen Henrichsen — Nonprofits / Fr
• This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today’s political marketplace – embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare – are informed by scientific ideas. Never has it been more crucial for the lay public to be scientifically literate. That’s where science writers come in. And that’s why it’s time for an update to the Field Guide, already a staple of science writing graduate programs across the country. The academic community has recently recognized how important it is for writers to become more sophisticated, knowledgeable, and skeptical about what they write. More than 50 institutions now offer training in science writing. In addition mid-career fellowships for science writers are growing, giving journalists the chance to return to major universities for specialized training. We applaud these developments, and hope to be part of them with this new edition of the Field Guide. In A Field Guide for Science Writers, 2nd Edition, the editors have assembled contributions from a collections of experienced journalists who are every bit as stellar as the group that contributed to the first edition. In the end, what we have are essays written by the very best in the science writing profession. These wonderful writers have written not only about style, but about content, too. These leaders in the profession describe how they work their way through the information glut to find the gems worth writing about. We also have chapters that provide the tools every good science writer needs: how to use statistics, how to weigh the merits of conflicting studies in scientific literature, how to report about risk. And, ultimately, how to write. — Amazon.com book description.

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• Technical writing — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Writing.
• Science.

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• The rise of the centaurs — We, the memorious — Public thinking — The new literacies — The art of finding — The puzzle-hungry world — Digital school — Ambient awareness — The connected society.
• It’s undeniable technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding yes. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis. We learn more and retain it longer, write and think with global audiences, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter, better connected, and often deeper-both as individuals and as a society. In Smarter Than You Think Thompson shows that every technological innovation-from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph-has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt-learning to use the new and retaining what’s good of the old. Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their minds in inventive ways. There’s the seventy-six-year old millionaire who digitally records his every waking moment-giving him instant recall of the events and ideas of his life, even going back decades. There’s a group of courageous Chinese students who mounted an online movement that shut down a $1.6 billion toxic copper plant. There are experts and there are amateurs, including a global set of gamers who took a puzzle that had baffled HIV scientists for a decade-and solved it collaboratively in only one month. Smarter Than You Think isn’t just about pioneers. It’s about everyday users of technology and how our digital tools-from Google to Twitter to Facebook and smartphones-are giving us new ways to learn, talk, and share our ideas. Thompson harnesses the latest discoveries in social science to explore how digital technology taps into our long-standing habits of mind-pushing them in powerful new directions. Our thinking will continue to evolve as newer tools enter our lives. Smarter Than You Think embraces and extols this transfo
• In Smarter Than You Think Thompson shows that every technological innovation–from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph–has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt–learning to use the new and retaining what’s good of the old. Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their minds in inventive ways. There’s the seventy-six-year old millionaire who digitally records his every waking moment–giving him instant recall of the events and ideas of his life, even going back decades. There’s a group of courageous Chinese students who mounted an online movement that shut down a $1.6 billion toxic copper plant. There are experts and there are amateurs, including a global set of gamers who took a puzzle that had baffled HIV scientists for a decade–and solved it collaboratively in only one month. Smarter Than You Think isn’t just about pioneers. It’s about everyday users of technology and how our digital tools–from Google to Twitter to Facebook and smartphones–are giving us new ways to learn, talk, and share our ideas. Thompson harnesses the latest discoveries in social science to explore how digital technology taps into our long-standing habits of mind–pushing them in powerful new directions. Our thinking will continue to evolve as newer tools enter our lives. Smarter Than You Think embraces and extols this transformation, presenting an exciting vision of the present and the future — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Information technology — Social aspects.
• Internet — Social aspects.
• Information technology — Psychological aspects.
• Internet — Psychological aspects.
• Social media.
• Thought and thinking.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
• Section 1: A framework for success. How the book is organized, and why — Research article structures — Reviewers’ criteria for evaluating manuscripts — Section 2: When and how to write each article section. Results as a story : the key driver of an article — Results: turning data into knowledge — Writing about results — The methods section — The introduction — The discussion section — The title — The abstract — Writing review articles — Section 3: Getting your manuscript published. Submitting a manuscript — How to respond to editors and reviewers — A process for preparing a manuscript — Section 4: Developing your writing and publication skills further. Skill-development strategies for groups and individuals — Developing discipline-specific English skills — Writing funding proposals — Section 5: Provided example articles. PEA1: Kaiser et al. (2003) — PEA2: Britton-Simmons and Abbott (2008) — PEA3: Ganci et al. (2012).
• This text guides authors in how to write, as well as what to write, to improve their chances of having their articles accepted for publication in international, peer reviewed journals.

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• Technical writing.
• Research.
• Science news.
• Research. fast (OCoLC)fst01095153
• Science news. fast (OCoLC)fst01108748
• Technical writing. fast (OCoLC)fst01144965

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-343) and index.
• 1. Nimrod’s Tower, Noah’s Ark — 2. Triumphs and Failures of Ancient Technology — 3. Not So Dark Ages: A.D. 500-900 — 4. Asian Connection — 5. Technology of the Commercial Revolution: 900-1200 — 6. High Middle Ages: 1200-1400 — 7. Leonardo and Columbus: The End of the Middle Ages.
• In this account of Europe’s rise to world leadership in technology, Frances and Joseph Gies make use of recent scholarship to destroy two time-honored myths. Myth One: that Europe’s leap forward occurred suddenly in the Renaissance, following centuries of medieval stagnation. Not so, say the Gieses: Early modern technology and experimental science were direct outgrowths of the decisive innovations of medieval Europe, in the tools and techniques of agriculture, craft industry, metallurgy, building construction, navigation, and war. Myth Two: that Europe achieved its primacy through Western superiority. On the contrary, the authors report, many of Europe’s most important inventions – the horse harness, the stirrup, the magnetic compass, cotton and silk cultivation and manufacture, papermaking, firearms, Arabic numerals – had their origins outside Europe, in China, India, and Islam. The Gieses show how Europe synthesized its own innovations – the three-field system, water power in industry, the full-rigged ship, the putting-out system – into a powerful new combination of technology, economics, and politics. From the expansion of medieval man’s capabilities, the voyage of Columbus with all its fateful consequences is seen as an inevitable product, while even the genius of Leonardo da Vinci emerges from the context of earlier and lesser-known dreamers and tinkerers. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel is illustrated with more than 90 photographs and drawings. It is a Split Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• Technology — History.
• Inventions — History.
• Science, Medieval.
• Tecnologia (historia) larpcal

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• Includes a complete introductory information graphics video course –Cover.
• Introduction — Part I. Foundations — 1. Why visualize: from information to wisdom — 2. Forms and functions: visualization as a technology — 3. The beauty paradox: art and communication — 4. The complexity challenge: presentation and exploration — Part II. Cognition — 5. The eye and the visual brain — 6. Visualizing for the mind — 7. Images in the head — Part III. Practice — 8. Creating information graphics — 9. The rise of interactive graphics — Part IV. Profiles — 1. The infographics gentleman: John Grimwade (Condé nast traveler magazine) — 2. Information art: Juan Velaso and Fernando Baptista (National geographic magazine) — 3. All the infographics that are fit to print: Steve Duenes and Xaquín G.V. (New York times) — 4. Capital infographics: Hannah Fairfield (Washington post) — 5. Germanic precision: Jan Schwochow (Golden Section Graphics) — 6. Visualization in academia: Geoff McGhee (Stanford University) — 7. Quantitative humanism: Hans Rosling (Gapminder Foundation) — 8. Truth and beauty operator: Moritz Stefaner (moritz.stefaner.eu) — 9. The rising stars: Gregor Aisch (driven-by-data.net) and Jan Willem Tulp (TULP interactive) — 10. Visualizing literature: Stefanie Posavec (itsbeenreal.co.uk).
• System requirements for accompanying material: DVD-ROM drive HTML 5 compatible Web browser Quicktime version 7 or higher.

Subjects:

• Computer graphics.
• Charts, diagrams, etc. — Design.
• Information visualization.

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