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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sarah maslen”
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  • Learning to Hear

    The Auditory Bases of Excellence in Practicing Medicine, Climbing Mountains, Making Music, and Communicating in Morse Code

    by Sarah Maslen ...
    As we live our lives, hearing seems to be something that we simply have, not something that we do. Yet in a wide variety of occupations and activities, people must develop their hearing skills to achieve proficiency. How do people learn to hear?This innovative book investigates strategies and techniques for honing hearing in medicine, music, outdoor adventuring, and Morse code operation. Sarah ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Ethics in the Doing of Technoscience

    Navigating Professional Frameworks and Organizational Muteness

    Edited by Jan Hayes, Sarah Maslen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes us beneath the banality of business as usual where technoscientific professionals routinely make judgments that impact the lives of others. Be it the safety of engineered systems, the speed and accuracy of medical diagnoses, or the wellbeing of animals subject to genetic modification, mindful, ethical choices contribute to the society we want to live in.In these decision making ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Risky Rewards

    How Company Bonuses Affect Safety

    by Andrew Hopkins, Sarah Maslen ...
    Financial incentives have long been used to try to influence professional values and practices. Recent events including the global financial crisis and the BP Texas City refinery disaster have been linked to such incentives, with commentators calling for a critical look at these systems given the catastrophic outcomes. Risky Rewards engages with this debate, particularly in the context of the ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • The Arms Trade Treaty: A Commentary

    by Andrew Clapham, Stuart Casey-Maslen, Gilles Giacca, Sarah Parker ...
    Series series Oxford Commentaries on International Law
    The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty became binding international law in late 2014, and although the text of the treaty is a relatively concise framework for assessing whether to authorize or deny proposed conventional weapons transfers by States Parties, there exists controversy as to the meaning of certain key provisions. Furthermore, the treaty requires a national regulatory body to authorize ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

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    Machine Learning and Human Values

    by Brian Christian ...
    **"If you’re going to read one book on artificial intelligence, this is the one." —Stephen Marche, New York TimesA jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.**Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us—and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Patriarchy Inc.

    What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality?and Why Men Still Win at Work

    by Cordelia Fine ...
    A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Financial Accounting

    by Keeran Jacobson ...
    Budgets can be used by assessing the employees. There are different types of budgets, Start up budget, Sales budget, and Summary budget. Working capital, also known as net working capital or NWC, is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business. Along with fixed assets such as plant and equipment, working capital is considered a part of operating capital.Get now ... Read more

    $1.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How We Talk

    The Inner Workings of Conversation

    by N. J. Enfield ...
    An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal wordWe all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language.Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things ... Read more

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  • Singapore Ageing

    Issues and Challenges Ahead

    by S Vasoo, Bilveer Singh, Srinivasan Chokkanathan ...
    Ageing is a part of life that all Singaporeans must face and, in fact, all families will have next of kins who will undergo that life stage. Singapore Ageing assembles a team of researchers, administrators, practitioners, advocates and academics from varied social service and care sectors, to share their thoughts, concerns and future challenges faced by an ageing Singapore in different arenas.With ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • FinTech Innovation

    From Robo-Advisors to Goal Based Investing and Gamification

    by Paolo Sironi ...
    Series series The Wiley Finance Series
    A survival guide for the FinTech era of bankingFinTech Innovation examines the rise of financial technology and its growing impact on the global banking industry. Wealth managers are standing at the epicenter of a tectonic shift, as the balance of power between offering and demand undergoes a dramatic upheaval. Regulators are pushing toward a 'constrained offering' norm while private clients and ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Learning To Sing

    A Transformative Approach to Vocal Performance and Instruction

    by Jennifer Hamady ...
    Learning To Sing is a thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of the principles of voice coach and counselor Jennifer Hamady's innovative teaching method. In this succinct work, Jennifer provides an academic look at the psychology, physiology, and neuroscience of the concepts presented in her book "The Art of Singing: Discovering and Developing Your True Voice", further revealing the 'how' and ... Read more

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  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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