Tento autor se zaměřuje na komplexní zkoumání lidské povahy a etiky. Jeho styl je charakteristický pronikavou psychologickou hloubkou a precizní prací s jazykem. Prostřednictvím svých děl se snaží odhalit skryté motivace a dilemata, které formují naše životy. Čtenáři oceňují jeho schopnost podnítit zamyšlení nad složitými morálními otázkami.
Publikace slovem i obrazem mapuje nejaktuálnější stav výzkumu planety Mars. Dva planetologové ve spolupráci s žurnalistou předkládají přehled současných vědeckých výsledků zkoumání naší sousední planety. Z dosavadních kosmických letů k Marsu je hlavní pozornost zaměřena na popis úspěšného letu a přistání sondy Pathfinder s vozítkem Sejourner, které bylo ovládano ze Země (červenec 1997). Na základě vědeckých výsledků mise se dozvídáme vzrušující podrobnosti o geologickém vývoji, morfologii, počasí, ovzduší a perspektivách zkoumání planety. Celou publikaci doplňují snímky pořízené z oběžné dráhy nebo přímo z povrchu Marsu. Některé fotografie jsou zpracovány pomocí speciální vyspělé technologie a s použitím přiložených stereoskopických brýlí je lze vnímat prostorově.... celý text
This introductory textbook provides an overview of child development. It covers such topics as perception, the development of language and reading skills, the bonding of parent and child, the development of sex differences, friendship and play. Each chapter contains two case studies.
An extensively rewritten second edition of this best-selling standard text for
graduates and upper-level undergraduate students of logic, philosophy of
mathematics, and pure mathematics. A clear and accessible treatment of Gödel's
famous, intriguing, but much misunderstood incompleteness theorems.
The Psychology of Bullying provides a highly accessible overview about the nature of bullying, what is known about it, its possible effects, and what can be done about it. It focuses on bullying at school with special attention given to the development of cyberbullying, and a final chapter looks at bullying in other contexts. Illustrated with examples and case studies, it examines who bullies and who gets bullied, what is known about effective coping strategies, and what friends, peers and the school can do to help. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and parents looking for psychological insights into what bullying is.
During the Second World War, the Soviet Union's Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka dive-bomber was unique in that it was as fast as most fighter aircraft. This was in a period when it was considered by the RAF that it was impossible for monoplane aircraft to conduct vertical bombing with any degree of success. During the war the Pe-2 was the principal dive- and light-bomber of Russia's air power across the vast Eastern Front and it continued in service until the early 1950s with the air forces of the Warsaw Pact countries and Yugoslavia. Conceived by a team of top aircraft designers whom Stalin had incarcerated in a prison camp on trumped-up political charges, the Pe-2 had originally been designed as a high-altitude twin-engine fighter plane, but, due to the outstanding success of the German Stukas in the Blitzkrieg, its role was quickly changed to that of a fast dive-bomber. The Pe-2 arrived in service around the time of the German attack on its hitherto ally. Although only a handful had reached front line units by the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Pe-2 soon became the main dive-bomber in both the Soviet VVS and Naval service. Mass production, by factories hastily moved back beyond the front, meant that numbers increased rapidly, and more than 11,000 of the type, including many variants, were built up to 1945. The Peshka became the mainstay of the Soviet counteroffensive that ultimately resulted in the fall of Berlin. Pe-2s also led the way in the brief but annihilating Manchurian campaign against Japan in the closing days of the war in 1945. Using official sources, including the official Pe-2 handbook, and numerous color and black-and-white photographs made available to the author from both official and private sources and collections, this book is the definitive record of the Pe-2 - the dive-bomber supreme!
This new edition has been expanded to include areas of current importance such as bifurcation, structural stability and chaotic behavior. Other topics covered are linearization, perturbation theory, subharmonics, stability, the existence of limit cycles, and Poincaré maps. The text isconcerned with practical applications and includes over 400 examples and exercises.
Formal logic provides us with a powerful set of techniques for criticizing some arguments and showing others to be valid. These techniques are relevant to all of us with an interest in being skilful and accurate reasoners. In this very accessible book, extensively revised and rewritten for the second edition, Peter Smith presents a guide to the fundamental aims and basic elements of formal logic. He introduces the reader to the languages of propositional and predicate logic, and develops natural deduction systems for evaluating arguments translated into these languages. His discussion is richly illustrated with worked examples and exercises, and alongside the formal work there is illuminating philosophical commentary. This book will make an ideal text for a first logic course and will provide a firm basis for further work in formal and philosophical logic.
