Czech for Fun is an introductory Czech language textbook, designed for use at the college level. It emphasizes communicating in natural situations, and... features extensive explanations and exercises, as well as dialogues and readings in Czech about life in the Czech Republic. The book is packaged with tape recordings of the dialogues; a workbook is also available separately.

This collection of four original short stories brings the Francophone world to life through the experiences of students and young professionals in... France, Guadeloupe, Belgium, and Canada. Accompanied by activities, the stories are written specifically for high-beginner and intermediate learners of French. In each story the characters are portrayed in authentic, everyday situations and cultural settings that will pique student interest and offer a glimpse of daily life in different French-speaking countries, encouraging students to read for pleasure in French and thereby further develop their language skills.

For more than twenty years, C'est la vie has presented France in its own words to generations of American students. The fifth edition remains faithful... to the tradition of adapting articles from French magazines and newspapers to reflect current French life and culture. As in the earlier editions, the selections provide the students with a range of up-to-date, and often controversial, topics that serve as a stimulus for classroom discussion. The articles in this edition explore some of the concerns of France in the 1990s.

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting... breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind. "A delight." --Ian Stewart, New Scientist"Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense." --The New York Times Book Review"Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers." --Booklist

Professional electronic technicians preparing to take a Certified Electronics Technician (CET) exam will find this book an extremely helpful resource.... Designed to serve as an overall review guide, it covers a wide range of information readers must know in order to pass the Associate-level section of the Certified Electronics Technician Exam and both the Consumer and the Computer Journeyman-level tests. Subjects covered include three-terminal amplifying circuits in consumer products, VCRs and compact disc players, televisions, digital and computer systems, and text equipment and troubleshooting. Review questions with all answers are included at the end of each chapter. Three complete 75-question exams and answers are provided at the end of the book.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures,... errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.