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...book reads very stream of consciousness, like you are simply talking to the reader. Its style is oral. It's like talking to people because it is also a lecture series. You have to orally connect the bits because somebody is listening to it. It's not like a textbook; it's actually a voice. The people who are reading it are going to be hearing it more than reading...
...Decker, who has always taught lecture courses, said that though the textbook method teaches students to analyze cases under ideal conditions, the alternative allows students to tackle problems with the complications of real-life situations...
...Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, about what's really going through the minds of the undecided. He told me in an e-mail that people often delay making a decision when "the consequences [of that decision] could be severely negative for either side of a choice." A textbook example: Do you choose death by fire or death by hanging? Most humans will delay that choice as long as possible, because we're not sure which method will be more excruciating...
...Democratic vice presidential candidate, speculating that this might be the beginning of a more robust role for the U.S. in shaping international environmental policy. Chivian said the book was written as reference for scholars, public policies makers, and students and has already been integrated into university curriculums, as a textbook in “Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 10: Foundations of Biological Diversity” at Harvard, an introduction to environmental science class at University of Wisconsin, and in classes at the University of Warwick in England. Before the lecture, Chivian lauded Harvard’s efforts toward promoting environmental...
...radio play itself became a textbook example of mass hysteria: in 1940, Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril used an analysis of listeners' reactions to posit that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. That said, there's little chance that a media hoax of this magnitude could happen again. We've grown too sophisticated, too cynical to believe that little green men from Mars with big silver spaceships will land in New Jersey, of all places. We're too smart, for example, to be fooled by telephone calls suggesting that John McCain...