When the Scientist Presents
When the Scientist Presents: An Audio and Video Guide to Science Talks by Jean-luc Lebrun
The book comes with a DVD for audio and video examples, and includes essential PowerPoint and keynote techniques that a presenter cannot live without.
This book looks at the presenting scientist from a novel angle: the presenter-host. When scientists give a talk, the audience ('guests') expects the title of the talk to determine presentation content, they require understandable slides, and they demand visible and audible scientific authority. To each expectation corresponds a set of skills: personal (voice, host qualities, time control), technical (presentation tools and slide design), and scientific (Q&A, slide content). The author takes an original human factor view of the presentation delivery, in which the audience is easily distracted, rapidly forgetful, and increasingly impatient. Thus, insightful pointers are given on how to deliver the talk, how to craft the slides, and how to prevent the computer from rendering the presenting host-scientist into a 'ghost'. In addition, the book goes in-depth over the treatment of questions by examining the motives and style of the questioners, and advising on how best to answer to each type of questioner.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins’s new book The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution (which he describes as his “missing link”,
presenting as it does the complete Darwinian case rather than – as in his
earlier works – exploring parts in detail) gives the fact-rejecters their
just deserts. He sets out to polish off their flummery. Dawkins compares
creationists to Holocaust deniers and spoons, with relish, an acid sauce of
mockery onto that absurd confection of half-baked ideas.
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Risk Wise
Risk Wise - International Disaster Reduction Conference, Davos
Published to coincide with the Global Risk Forum in Davos, Risk Wise is the latest in a series of volumes addressing the risks faced by individuals and communities across the world, and the strategies that can help to reduce and mitigate those risks. This fully illustrated, 200-page book brings together the knowledge and experiences of public and private organisations working toward disaster preparedness and mitigation at local, national and international levels.
Risk Wise offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred . List Price: USD 125.00 / 2008 / 198pp
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The Atlas of American Architecture
The Atlas of American Architecture
With over 1,100 photographs and authoritative documentation, this is a landmark volume on the history of buildings in America.
This comparative history of American architecture, social spaces, and
engineered environments—organized by style, and then by chronology—is
for the general reader. Within its heavily illustrated pages, Tom
Martinson traces two millennia of the built environment of this
endlessly fascinating, extraordinarily expansive, and utterly diverse
nation. Pairing vibrant photography with a rich knowledge of the
history of architecture in America—from the Hopi and Colonial years to
neomodernism, Robert A. M. Stern, and Zaha Hadid—the book is a
comprehensive overview of styles and developments, as well as telling
the story of a country through its buildings.
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100 Per Cent Renewable
100 Per Cent Renewable: Energy Autonomy in Action
The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the
sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil
fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution
possible. A 100% renewable world is seen by many as an impossible dream in
anything but the very long term. But not only does a growing number of
initiatives and plans dare to make the change but many have already
achieved it.
This rich collection presents a series of
pioneering efforts and their champions, and the paths to their
successes. Ranging from individuals to companies, communities and
entire countries from around the world, it defeats tired economic and
technical counterarguments, demonstrating how the schemes featured not
only worked but did so economically and with available technology. The
book is introduced by incisive research and writing by Peter Droege,
explaining the challenges and setting forth a roadmap towards a 100%
renewable reality.
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Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as grammatical semantics, where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora. COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how logical semantics develops and thrives, often in interaction with computational linguistics.
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