The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide

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Like its best-selling predecessor, the second edition of The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide combines theory with "hands on" practice, providing engaging exercises that make history more accessible to majors and nonmajors alike, helping students learn to think historically while at the same time strengthening their critical-thinking and communication skills.

This dynamic workbook has been thoughtfully redesigned, employing a new organization that progresses from a discussion of the nature of history to confronting historical accounts to actually "doing" history. A final section discusses historiography and history's relationship to other academic disciplines. With more systematic attention to writing skills throughout, this new edition also offers a series of "Writing Capsules" focused on techniques of organization and forming coherent paragraphs.

The second edition of The Methods and Skills of History also features two entirely new chapters, "History on Film" and "Oral History and Statistics." In addition, chapter-opening vignettes add a note of human drama to the otherwise abstract elements of the discipline.

Finally, advice on using libraries and source selection has been updated with the latest in computer cataloging and retrieval techniques in mind, a discussion of performing research on the Internet is tempered by considerations of the authenticity of sources as well as a listing of relevant Web site addresses.

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Wonderful and Efficiant.......2006-02-24

This book was exactly as described and so much more. It is well written, well organized, and does a great job keeping readers intrested. It is so wonderful and efficiant to count on products such as this.

Useful if limited; we need more like it.......2005-07-27

Used this in an undergraduate class at a good liberal arts school. Many students found the workbook exercises simplistic. I like it, though, because it illustrates practical history skills using real historical examples. I am aware of no other book that does this. I particularly like the emphasis on the research process (lots of emphasis on looping back between research and writing), and analytical skills (where making categories looms large). My recommendation is to use the chapters loosely, adapting them to your own needs. When I use it again, I will use the material provided as the basis for more substantive short writing assignments.

Adaptable to all student levels.......2002-10-15

I've used this book for years now for both undergraduates and graduates, with great success. The new 2000 edition is even better (except for a too-brief section on films as historical sources.) The updating with regard to libraries is especially good, and the section on statistics is appropriately demanding. The essay assignment based upon the Missouri Fur Trade readily uncovers problems and personal bias in students' work. Though written for undergrads, this guide is excellent for new grad students as a way of identifying weaknesses and building consistent skills. I require graduate students to probe more deeply in responding to the exercises, and they all agree it is a great workbook, even though it seems too basic to them at first glance!

Making Your Case: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing (Speak-Write Series)

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Making Your Case: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing (Speak-Write Series)
Rebecca Stott , Rick Rylance , and Anna Snaith
Manufacturer: Longman
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ASIN: 0582382440

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Writers investigate and learn about the processes of essay writing - from collecting information, identifying an argument and designing a plan to editing, proof-reading and referencing.

Studying History: A Practical Guide to Successful Essay-Writing, Seminars, Assignments and Exams (Studymates)

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Studying History: A Practical Guide to Successful Essay-Writing, Seminars, Assignments and Exams (Studymates)
Robert Johnson
Manufacturer: Studymates Ltd
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One of the Great Families of Cherokee History

Cherokee Cavaliers: Forty Years of Cherokee History As Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Edward Everett Dale , and Gaston Litton
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding: Paperback

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One of the Great Families of Cherokee History.......1999-03-29

This is a reprint of the correspondence of one of the Great Families of Cherokee History. The members of this family were the movers and shapers of a nation. They became victims in a little talked about civil war with in the nation. This civil conflict with in the people is important because it suggests a sell out and cover up by John Ross. I enjoy studying this era of history and this book gives a feel for the people involved like no other.

One member of the family who survived was Stand Watie. He later served in the Confederate States of America's Army as a Brigadier General. This book will be of interest to students of both civil wars.

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Cherokee Cavaliers - Forty Years of Cherokee History As Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family
Edward Everett Dale & Gaston Litton
Manufacturer: Univ. of Oklahoma Press; Norman
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VKIAZ6

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8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. xxiv + 319pp.

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J.W.Dunne ("Intrusions?," "The Jumping Lions of Borneo," "Serial Universe") first published his ground-breaking theory of time in 1927. Spurred by dreams and other personal experiences to an intense interest in the nature of time and human perception, Dunne designed an experiment whose purpose was to isolate the barrier dividing our knowledge of the past from that of the future. Conversant with the concepts and language of physics - which he deemed inadequate to describe a world that is largely experiential - Dunne weaves an intriguing, intelligent, and convincing theory that has earned him a place of honor among the twentieth century's brightest minds.

- Brilliant theory that puts Dunne in the ranks of Einstein, Hawking, and other pioneers of physics and consciousness research

- A scientific experiment to probe the nature of time and the barrier dividing knowledge of the past and future

- Contains one of the first scientific arguments for human immortality

- Explores the relationship between dreams, time, perception, and reality

- As original and thought-provoking today as it was three quarters of a century ago

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A Time With Experiments.......2007-05-26

I read this book in a university metaphysics course. The assignment was to perform a confirming or disconfirming experiment and, based on this experience and other readings, write a paper on experimental method. This book is an excellent tool for motivating critical thought, if one is so inclined. Or it can be read for warm and fuzzy new-age woolgathering. Whether you think it is science or hokum, it is a stimulating book suitable for college sophomores. Draw your own conclusions.

Time and Dreams.......2007-02-07

This book is an interesting look into the mind of J.W. Dunne, who was an early British aeronautical engineer and inventor. He was also a philosopher of sorts who, in this book, explores the nature of time and dreams. This book fascinated me when I first read it and today is still worth multiple subsequent reads. The first few chapters are easy to wrap your head around, however in subsequent chapters Mr. Dunne uses graphs and table to explain vastly complex notions about time. If you are good at variable-centric math or sciences and enjoy a good book on the nature of reality, this is a good book for you. I find that the ideas that Mr. Dunne examines in this book hold both mystery and truth still today after 80 years.

Infinite regress.......2007-01-03

I first read this book 55 years ago, and am glad to have it back in print. Dunne wanted to explain prophetic dreams, and made a good stab at it, though postulated his observers multiply endlessly.

Only ingrained habit of thought limits us.......2005-10-17

_The author of this book admits that if anyone else had told him of their precognitive dreams he would have had no difficulty dismissing them as coincidence. However, the fact that he himself spontaneously experienced a number of striking examples of such phenomena changed everything. As well it should have, for if we can make contact with the future it means that the entire foundation of our shared conventional assumptions about reality and existence are simply wrong.

_The author, one of Britain's first aeronautical engineers, designed a series of experiments to attempt to repeat such contact with future events by way of dream. First he used himself as subject, and then he brought a larger number of ordinary friends and acquaintances in. He found that if careful attention was paid to documenting the details of one's dreams immediately after waking, and carefully reviewing and comparing those dream records with later events, then almost everyone has this ability to some extent. Most of us tend to ignore this fact out of some ingrained habit of thought. Later, it was found that this ability to contact the future isn't strictly limited to dream consciousness. It was found that while waking, people could open themselves up to seemingly random impressions that were later documented to agree with future events (such as concentrating on a book that one had never read before- and receiving definite "hits" on the contents and specific words and phrases- that go way beyond chance.) Further analysis of dream material also showed that we made "contact" with past events in our lives about as much as we did future ones. Once freed of our habitual way of assuming time as linear (and one way) and the world as strictly three dimensional, the mind seemed to be capable of intermittently ranging past and future in an unfocussed state. The conclusion was that both past and future exist in a higher dimensional framework- and since we can access them- then probably so do we.

_The first part of this book is primarily empirical, while the second is primarily logical (an elaborate model- complete with diagrams- explaining multidimensional mechanics.) The first part is much more readable. As for the second, as ingenious as it is, I cannot but help think that a cerebrum concentrated in third dimensional consciousness is inadequate to explain higher dimensional realities. We can experience the fact that there must be more to our ordinary conception of reality, but to truly understand it is another matter. Yet, the day will come for us all when we no longer intersect with this three dimensional world- and then we will be free to focus our concentration on the higher dimensional extent of our being.

_The only restriction in breaking free of our conventional time-consciousness is shaking our selves free of our ingrained habit of seeing the world. Once you have personally experienced such precognitive events, or perhaps synchronicity, then this is much easier- and their frequency increases. It isn't enough to wish or believe- you have to KNOW....

The forgotten and fantastic........2004-02-21

In this gem first published in 1927, John W. Dunne puts forth a theory of multidimensional consciousness which manifests itself mainly in the "Dream effect". A mathematician and aeronautical pioneer, Dunne found himself having precognitive experiences throughout his adult life. His dreams would come true. Often times the very next day and in rich detail. I am myself mathematicly inclined, and can only ponder at the discomfort this would have created to a scientist of such a logical mind.

And surely enough, he spent the rest of his life seeking an answer to the riddle.
In "An experiment with time", he reveals his startling conclusions, which are based in deductive reasoning and experiments.
By applying the concept of regression in human consciousness and time to the results of the experimental work he finds an answer to the problem of apparent psychic abilities in his more or less ramdomly chosen subjects.
Not only that; he thereby also explains the phenomena of deja vu and many cases of clairvoyance, common precognition, ESP and many other "paranormal" occurances.
It is important to note that this theory, which I can only describe as analogous to the theory of general relativity in its ingenuity and brilliance, have NEVER been disproven in its 77 year history.
Furthermore there is no known physical law or concept that would disallow the "dream effect", even today.
The pieces of the puzzle, therefore, fits uncannily well in the map of the eye-opening reality that Dunne unfolds.
Towards the end, Dunne takes the theory even further to prepose the exsistance of an eternal multidimensional concsiousness and a higher, supreme consciousness, which it has to be said, I find rather speculative and philosophical. However, It is an extrapolation that is not wholly unnatural, at least in case of the seamingly immortal qualities of human serial consciousness.

This piece is in my mind one of the most important books of the last century, and almost tragic that so few know of it. This is in part, I think, due to the non-scientific material which it brushes up against, but ultimately deciphers for the first time.

As to the question of whether or not it is psuedo-science: The experiments can be repeated at all times in any laboratory with any subjects, and from that, the same results have so far been found. These are the parameters which define scientific research. And the more experiments are conducted, the more probable Dunne's conclusions are.

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The rapid advancement in digital technology in recent years has allowed the implementation of incredibly sophisticated digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms that make real-time tasks feasible. Real-time DSP is currently a very hot subject in today's engineering fields fuelled by the ever-increasing demand for high-performance digital signal processors. The TMS320C55x is the latest of Texas Instrument's line of highly successful DSP chips, which is anticipated to dominate the market in 2001.
Placing emphasis on the practical aspects of real time DSP concepts and applications by taking a systems design, implementation and simulation approach, this text bridges the gap in the existing DSP literature which covers theory, MATLAB and C and Lab manuals. A hands-on, tutorial approach enables the understanding of real-time DSP systems principles and real-world applications using MATLAB, C and various assembly programs based on TI's TMS320C55x.

Tutorial based presentation, allowing the reader to master the theory of digital signal processing and the important skill of real-time DSP design and implementation techniques.
Focuses on practical aspects of real-time DSP concepts and applications from a system design and implementation point of view
Accompanying CD-ROM containing MATLAB and C assembly programs will allow a hands-on illustration of real-time DSP application
For readers with access to a TI DSP lab, an Evaluation Module (EVM) with Code Compressor Studio (CCS) of TMS320C55x will be integrated into lab experiments, projects and applications from in-text references

A valuable, leading edge resource for senior graduate students of digital signal processing and practising engineers developing real-time DSP applications.

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Good book.......2002-07-17

It is a good book for beginners in the DSP field. However, I wish the book had been concentrated on applications right from the beginning, instead of spending too much space on well known mathematics that can be found in another classical books. I hope for the next edition to be better, as the book's name implies: real time applications. Nevertheless, the book is quite motivating for the reader and, if mature enough, it can be of extreme value for engineers and scientist that need to solve problems that require real time processing. But, again, this is only found within the last parts of the book.

Simple Experiments In Time With Everyday Materials

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Simple Experiments In Time With Everyday Materials
Muriel Mandell
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 0806942983

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Because time is such an important part of our lives, we hardly ever take a minute to think about it. Now kids can investigate all the wonders of time with dozens of experiments--all of which use easy-to-find supplies and materials. They'll learn how to tell time using the sun, moon, and stars. They'll make and use their own hourglass, candle timekeeper, and water clock, and they'll discover how clocks and watches work. Fun-filled explorations help explain the principles behind the pendulums in grandfather clocks, the gears that turn a clock's hands, and the motors that run electric clocks. Other investigations include making a model of the International Date Line, drawing a star map, making a cereal box planetarium, and more. Fascinating facts are included to answer such questions as why clocks count to twelve, where the word "watch" comes from, why daylight savings time is observed, how scientists can date fossils, and whether or not time travel might be possible. One look at the dozens of creative experiments contained here, and kids won't want to wait to start exploring the secrets of time. Sterling 96 pages, 95 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Cheap-Money Experiments in Past and Present Times: Reprinted, with Slight Revision, from "Topics of the Time" in The Century Magazine

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Cheap-Money Experiments in Past and Present Times: Reprinted, with Slight Revision, from "Topics of the Time" in The Century Magazine
Century Magazine
Manufacturer: CENTURY CO
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TSQ8KY

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Cheap-money experiments in past and present times;: Reprinted, with slight revision, from "Topics of the time" in the Century magazine
Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Manufacturer: The Century co
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ASIN: B000867I42

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An Experiment with Time

Manufacturer: A & C Black
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H5HN6C

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An Experiment with Time
J. W. Dunne
Manufacturer: Macmillan Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLIWCS

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An experiment with time
J. W. Dunne
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber, ltd
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H859CE

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AN EXPERIMENT WITH TIME.
J. W. Dunne
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O8T5B8

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AN EXPERIMENT WITH TIME.
J. W. Dunne
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NISMY0

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Inspiring Green Means.......2002-03-24

This book is a wonderful compilation of environmental problem solving. It lists several areas of environmental concerns, each of which has someone working towards a solution. I enjoyed this book because I learned about several unusual yet important areas of environmental concern, and was left with a positive/ can-do feeling regarding caring for those concerns.

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