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In twenty years, it will be seen as the standard way to teach economics.With no experiece in business and no exposure to math since a D in high school trig, I found economics utterly incomprehensible. Then the text] spoke one sentence to me, … It all became clear.Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach is a breath of fresh air. After having taught managerial economics for 20 years, I became dissatisfied with texts that confront students with graphs, economic principles only loosely connntected to business problems, and tedious calculations. I wanted a text that really helps students to see how economic principles could help them solve business problems. This new text does just that.This breakthrough text shows MBA’s how to use economics to solve business problems. Succinct, faced paced, and challenging, students should be able to read the book from cover to cover and come away with a good understanding of how to diagnose business problems, and then fix them. With a lively, interactive approach, MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS focuses on the kinds of decisions managers face on a daily bases, making it an excellent resource for students pursuing business — rather than academic — careers. Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach is a breath of fresh air. After having taught managerial economics for 20 years, I became dissatisfied with texts that confront students with graphs, economic principles only loosely connntected to business problems, and tedious calculations. I wanted a text that really helps students to see how economic principles could help them solve business problems. This new text does just that.–Ed Millner, Chairman, Department of Economics, Virginia Commonwealth University. With no experiece in business and no exposure to math since a D in high school trig, I found economics utterly incomprehensible. Then

Adults preparing to take the GED High School Equivalency Test, and who feel the need for extra help in math, will find what they are looking for in this self-teaching workbook. The text has been updated in this edition to reflect latest changes in exam format and to familiarize students with use of the Casio fx-260 calculator. The book is filled with subject reviews, exercises, and worksheets covering arithmetic, measurement, geometry, algebra, number relations, and data analysis. All questions are answered, and a full-length diagnostic test plus four practice tests will help students discover their weak areas for concentrated study.back coverbrIn-depth Preparation Includes:brExtensive subject reviews in arithmetic, measurement, geometry, algebra, number relations, and data analysisbrA diagnostic test and four full-length practice tests with all questions answered Instruction on use of the Casio fx-260 calculatorbr

Linda Lee is an editor and writer for theiNew York Times./iShe frequently contributes to the Style, Arts and Leisure, and Business sections. The article she wrote for the Education Life supplement in 1998, called “What’s the Rush? Why College Can Wait,” was the basis for this book. In addition to contributing to theiTimes,/iLee is the author of several books. She lives in New York City.bTHE CASE AGAINST COLLEGE/bbrbriAll great truths begin as blasphemies./ibr–GEORGE BERNARD SHAWbrbrHere is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning’s sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture and the like.brbrHere is who actually goes to college: everyone. That everyone includes the learning disabled and the fairly dumb, those who have trouble reading and writing and doing math, slackers who see college as an opportunity to major in Beers of the World, burned-out book jockeys and the just plain average student with not much interest in anything.brbrThink about your high school class. Now think about the 76 percent of those students (80 to 90 percent in middle-class suburbs) whoisay/ithey expect to go to two-year or four-year colleges. You begin to see the problem?brbrPamela Gerhardt, who has been teaching advanced writing and editing at the University of Maryland for six years, says she has seen a decline in her students’ interest in the world of ideas. In an article in theiWashington Post/ion August 22,1999, she noted: “Last semester, many of my students drifted in late, slumped into chairs, made excuses to leave early and surrounded my desk when papers were due, clearly distraught over the looming deadline. ‘I can’t think of any problems,’ one told me. ‘Nothing interests me.'”brbrHer students, she said, rejected the idea of writing about things like homeless@=p£× ¾Û€

This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments to be crucial to the high school setting. In all three schools studied and in all four subjects English, Maths, Science and Social Science teachers – even those who felt isolated in their classrooms – located their sense of professional identity, practice and community in their departments. Departments are seen as boundaries for dividing the school; centres of social interaction; a micro political decision-making forum; as a subject knowledge category. Those concerns are important at this time as various attacks are being made on school structures and subject and administration fragmentation – in these cases subjects are seen as obstacles to change. To subject groups they are viewed as potential vehicles to carry and confirm the message.

Newly updated with the stunning discovery of two new elements, A Guide to the Elements, 2nd Edition is still the easy- to-read, easy-to- understand resource to the periodic table that students and teachers of the physical sciences expect. A Guide to the Elements, Second Edition begins with an introductory section that explains some of the basic concepts of chemistry and traces the history and development of the periodic table of the elements. In clear, nontechnical language, Albert Stwertka takes complex ideas and terms easily understandable. Complemented with historical anecdotes and everyday examples, each fascinating article examines one element and is accompanied by photographs many in full color of practical applications. Middle school and high school students will find this a welcome reference, as will adults with no background in chemistry.brThis new edition includes:br* A comprehensive list of informative websitesbr* An epilogue on recent near-discoveries of new elementsbr* An extensively updated further-reading listbrAn excellent look up resource as well as a superb introduction to chemistry, A Guide to the Elements, Second Edition is a good beginning step on the road to chemical literacy.brAlbert Stwerkta is Professor Emeritus at the United States Merchant Marine Academy and previously served as the head of the mathematics and science department there. Dr. Stwertka conducted research in the field of atomic physics, and was instrumental in establishing training programs for the N.S. Savannah nuclear ship during the Atoms for Peace program. He is the author of numerous books on science and math, including The World of Atoms and Quarks, Recent Revolutions in Physics, Recent Revolutions in Mathematics, and Physics: From Newton to the Big Bang.br

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