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Hardcore Neuroscience focuses on the essentials of neuroscience, as an ultra-high yield Step 1 review and an ideal course supplement. Figures and images help students visualize key concepts, and the concise, outline format allows rapid access to vital information. Critical "hardcore" facts are highlighted in the text, emphasizing the most heavily tested information for review.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Structures of Practical Knowledge investigates the nature of practical knowledge – why, how, when and by whom it is codified, and once codified, how this knowledge is structured. The inquiry unfolds in a series of fifteen case studies, which range in focus from early modern Italy to eighteenth century China. At the heart of each study is a shared definition of practical knowledge, that is, knowledge needed to obtain a certain outcome, whether that be an artistic or mechanical artifact, a healing practice, or a mathematical result. While the content of practical knowledge is widely variable, this study shows that all practical knowledge is formally equivalent in following a defined work...
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This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences. The book brings together practice-based original research on the connection between developing sustainability competences and the pedagogical approaches used, utilizing a framework aimed at helping educators in creating and updating their courses to provide a more complete, holistic, and systemic sustainability ...
Manuel Lago (Popayán, 1932) y Jaime Sáenz (Cali, 1932) una vez concluyeron su formación como arquitectos en la Universidad de Cornell y la Universidad de Notre Dame, respectivamente, retornaron a Cali para asociarse como Lago & Sáenz y configurar así una de las firmas de arquitectura más sobresalientes y activas en el país, cuyos proyectos rápidamente alcanzaron reconocimiento en publicaciones internacionales. El libro a través de magníficas fotografías, gran cantidad de material documental inédito y la fuerza expresiva de los dibujos y bocetos, expone la evolución de una firma emblemática en la arquitectura moderna colombiana y muestra su exploración de la materia y el espaci...
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries comp...