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  • Measurement of Facilities Management Performance in Ghana's Public Hospitals

    by Daniel Amos, Cheong Peng Au-Yong, Zairul Nisham Musa ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents the concept of healthcare facilities management performance measurement (HCFMPM) using Ghana as a case study. It set forth in-depth theoretical and empirical underpinnings of performance measurement concepts for hospital facilities services, with the view to demonstrate critical performance dimensions to improve FM contributions and added value to healthcare delivery. The ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Judgment under Uncertainty

    Heuristics and Biases

    Edited by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky ...
    The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Choices, Values, and Frames

    Edited by Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky ...
    This book presents the definitive exposition of 'prospect theory', a compelling alternative to the classical utility theory of choice. Building on the 1982 volume, Judgement Under Uncertainty, this book brings together seminal papers on prospect theory from economists, decision theorists, and psychologists, including the work of the late Amos Tversky, whose contributions are collected here for the ... Read more

    $99.19 CAD

  • Mantis Boxing Anthology

    by Daniel M. Amos, Martin Eisen, Dwight C. Edwards, Ilya Profatilov ...
    A praying mantis insect faces any danger regardless of it’s opponent’s size and strength. If you’ve seen their parade of innate fearlessness, it is easy to see why they have inspired the creation of a Chinese martial art style. This anthology assembles the work of four highly qualified authors who present rare information about praying mantis boxing. ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Combatives: An Anthology

    by Michael DeMarco, Shannon Phelps, Daniel Amos, Tont Yang, Robert Figler, Zhang Yun, Strider Clark, Anthony Lianto, Kai Sun Ma ...
    According to traditional Chinese martial arts custom, instruction in the lethal arts were transmitted under strict secrecy. At the turn of the twentieth century, the martial arts had started to be taught publically with a focus on health. However, many fighting techniques were not shown or taught. As a result, today some systems are more well-known than others. This anthology brings together some ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hong Kong Martial Artists

    Sociocultural Change from World War II to 2020

    by Daniel Miles Amos ...
    Series series Martial Arts Studies
    This imaginative and innovative study by Daniel Miles Amos, begun in 1976 and completed in 2020, examines sociocultural changes in the practices of Chinese martial artists in two closely related and interconnected southern Chinese cities, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The initial chapters of the book compare how sociocultural changes from World War II to the mid-1980s affected the practices of Chinese ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

  • (Mis)Reading Different Cultures

    Interpreting International Children’s Literature from Asia

    by Yukari Takimoto Amos, Daniel Miles Amos ...
    Teachers’ selection of the literature they use in instruction frequently depends on how they interpret, in other words whether or not they accurately take in the authors’ perspectives. This point presents a particular challenge in the selection of international literature. International literature reflects a country’s and a region’s unique cultural values and practices and is usually not written ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Children’s Literature from Asia in Today’s Classrooms

    Towards Culturally Authentic Interpretations

    by Yukari Takimoto Amos, Daniel Miles Amos ...
    This new volume, Children’s Literature from Asia in Today’s Classrooms: Towards Culturally Authentic Interpretations, aims to provide readers with interpretation guides and practical ideas when they endeavor to make use of Asian international children’s literature in the classroom. It attempts to help readers interpret stories from Asia more authentically, and focuses both on international ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • Heuristics and Biases

    The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment

    Edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman ...
    Is our case strong enough to go to trial? Will interest rates go up? Can I trust this person? Such questions - and the judgments required to answer them - are woven into the fabric of everyday experience. This book, first published in 2002, examines how people make such judgments. The study of human judgment was transformed in the 1970s, when Kahneman and Tversky introduced their 'heuristics and ... Read more

    $75.19 CAD

  • Who's in Charge?

    Free Will and the Science of the Brain

    by Michael S. Gazzaniga ...
    "Gazzaniga is a giant in cognitive neuroscience . . . [He] advances a fascinating argument that both limits and contextualizes brain research." —Forbes.comThe author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • This Will Make You Smarter

    150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 11 - Edge Question Series
    Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—scientific concepts to expand every mind.What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Moonwalking with Einstein

    The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

    by Joshua Foer ...
    **The bestselling, blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe**An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's ... Read more

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