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    Genetic and Neural Approaches

    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Since the heyday of research on aggression in the late 1960s, developments in several varied areas had enabled us to take a new look at this important though difficult topic. Recent findings and sophisticated new techniques in behavior genetic analysis at the time had made it possible not only to enhance our understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying aggressive behavior, but also to ... Read more

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  • Getting Real About College Composition

    A Practical and Conceptual Guide to Writing

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Getting Real About College Composition translates critical scholarly perspectives on writing into a usable and provocative classroom curriculum. What is writing, really? How does writing reflect reality? And create new realities? Like other creative activities, writing can be considered from two aspects: one is engaging in critical insight, originality, and transformation, and the other is ... Read more

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  • Texans on the Brink

    Threatened and Endangered Animals

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Read more

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    Series series Thinker's Guide Library
    This powerful book introduces core critical thinking concepts and principles as an empowering problem-solving framework for every profession, course of study, and indeed every area of life. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools distills the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder, targeting how to deconstruct thinking through the elements of reasoning and how to ... Read more

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  • Critical Thinkers

    The Critical Thinker, #2

    Series Book 2 - The Critical Thinker
    Do you want to ask smart questions like Socrates, be an out-of-the-box thinker like John Stuart Mill, and rational like Descartes?These people have at least one thing in common; they were great critical thinkers of their time and their shared wisdom lived through the centuries.Critical Thinkers provides intellectual power to engage with and participate in effective critical thoughts, arguments, ... Read more

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    In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get "stuck" or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos. The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against ... Read more

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  • Sad Love

    Romance and the Search for Meaning

    As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society ... Read more

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  • The Elements of Academic Style

    Writing for the Humanities

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D ... Read more

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    by Martin Cohen ...
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  • Rewriting

    How To Do Things With Texts

    by Joseph Harris ...
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  • Thinking through Writing

    A Guide to Becoming a Better Writer and Thinker

    Series series Skills for Scholars
    A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandemFor college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are categorized separately: writing guides and critical thinking handbooks. This book is different, offering a manual for developing reading, writing, ... Read more

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