Summary: In 24 lectures, Macroeconomics Made Clear will introduce you to the subject that people have been theorizing about and modeling for almost 100 years. With easy-to-understand visuals and examples, Dr. Akila Weerapana of Wellesley College shows you the real-world applications of the key ideas in macroeconomics. Dr. Weerapana shows you how macroeconomics offers a hopeful tool for the future and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 MACSummary: Do the world's rainforests contain a cure for cancer and AIDS? This intriguing program travels to Jakarta, Surabaya, and the jungles of Kalimantan to investigate the preparation and use of natural remedies to combat illnesses such as skin fungus, malaria, and even AIDS. But logging continues unabated, even as ethnobiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program places consumers under a microscope to quantify the psychological spectrum of buying, from everyday habits that typically steer Americans through their supermarkets and malls to a clinical disorder in which the high of making a purchase becomes the goal of shopping. James Twitchell, author of ADCULT USA; psychologist David Lewis, author of The Soul of the New Consumer; Brian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A dream may be the most difficult human experience to quantify-but dreaming is an excellent topic for building qualitative research skills. This program illustrates experiments, designed and conducted by students, that revolve around sleep and dreams. In the process, it provides thorough insight into the issues relevant to collecting and utilizing qualitative data. Viewers are shown how to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If mathematics underpins the elegant precision of the macroscopic and microscopic worlds, is there a Master Mathematician as well? This fascinating program examines the computational paradigms being used to model human consciousness and to quantify reality, from Euclidean geometry to fractal transform algorithms. Oxford mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, quantum physicist Reverend John...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Downs, Mike
Summary: "This playful picture book introduces young readers to different units of measurement, then invites them to think of the many creative ways to quantify the meaningful moments in their lives. How do you measure the time it takes to read a good book? Sure,you can use units of time, like minutes or hours . . . but you can also use your very own measurements: how many times you laugh or cry, how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "How many unread emails are there in your inbox? How many hours of sleep did you get last week? How many steps did you walk today? We're drowning in digits and immersed in integers, and More Numbers Every Day, by internationally renowned economics professors Micael Dahlen and Helge Thorbjørnsen is a timely and powerful investigation - and warning - about the trouble numbers can bring us. Today...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 DAHStanford, Claire
Summary: "Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022