Best Selling Books by David Robert

A Pedagogy of Cinema is the first book to apply Deleuze''s concept of cinema to the pedagogic context. Cinema is opened up by this action from the straightforward educative analysis of film, to the systematic unfolding of image. A Pedagogy of Cinema explores what it means to engender cinema-thinking from image. This book does not overlay images from films with an educational approach to them, but looks to the images themselves to produce philosophy. This approach to utilising image in education is wholly new, and has the potential to transform classroom practice with respect to teaching and learning about cinema. The authors have carefully chosen specific examples of images to illustrate such transformational processes, and have fitted them into in depth analysis that is derived from the images. The result is a combination of image and text that advances the field of cinema study for and in education with a philosophical intent. "This outstanding new book asks a vital question for our time. How can we educate effectively in a digitalized, corporatized, Orwellian-surveillance-controlled, globalized world? This question is equally a challenge asked of our ability to think outside of the limiting parameters of the control society, and the forces which daily propel us ever-quicker towards worldwide homogenization. With great lucidity, Cole and Bradley offer us profound hope in Gilles Deleuze''s increasingly popular notion of ''cine-thinking''. They explore and explain the potential that this sophisticated idea holds for learning, in an easy going and accessible way, and with a range of fantastic films: from ''Suspiria'' and ''Performance'' through to ''Under the Skin'' and ''Snowpiercer''. This extremely engaging and compelling text is likely to enliven scholars and students everywhere." - David Martin-Jones, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

This best-selling introduction to statistical analysis in the social sciences provides the right balance of conceptual understanding and step-by-step computational techniques.

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Covering all aspects of pediatrics and community child health, this book is lavishly illustrated with full-color clinical photographs and consistently organized throughout. Coverage of each condition includes symptoms, signs and diagnostic investigations. Principles of management and general child health issues such as prevention and health promotion, accidents, and abuse are also covered. This well-rounded coverage helps ensure readers'' awareness not only of particular organ systems and processes, but also social and environmental influences that have a major impact on the health and well-being of children. Provides more than 775 high quality clinical photos which accurately depict clinical conditions that the student will see, enhancing how to recognize and interpret physical signs. Features a text-atlas format which serves not only as a complete visual reference, but also as a stand alone course of instruction. Provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview of child health, for a quick and reliable revision aid. Includes high level of clinical and symptom discussion for use in day-to-day practice, allowing the user to reach a quick and easy diagnosis.

Route 128 is a story of idealism and entrepreneurship, of ivory-tower intellectualism and practical Yankee ingenuity, of individual dreams and cooperative efforts--the search for new knowledge and the drive to put it to work. The book tells how a stretch of highway circling Boston became one of the nation''s best-known centers of high-tech industrial innovation. No other region can match Boston''s record of productivity and leadership in technology over the past two centuries. The fruitful interplay of industry, the federal government, and higher education in Massachusetts has produced new fields of research, novel inventions, spin-off companies, entire new industries, new academic disciplines, and innovative federal agencies like the National Science Foundation. What are the critical ingredients that produce such high creativity? What lessons are there for other states and nations interested in the fabled promise of high technology? The first book to address the importance of this area, Route 128 examines the forces that shaped the region and the role people and events there played in determining the course of the overall relationship among industry, academia, and government in our society. The book is as well a brilliant, incisive analysis of the conditions required to encourage innovation in other areas of the world. The authors highlight the roles of such "ultimate entrepreneurs" as Digital Equipment''s Ken Olsen and of such academic impresarios as Vannevar Bush of MIT. The book also explains why the "Massachusetts Miracle" appeared to have crashed to earth by the end of the 1980s as the national and regional economies slid into recession and high-tech companies laid off thousands.