Based on psychologist Howard Gardner's pioneering theory of "multiple intelligences," the original edition of 7 Kinds of Smart identified seven distinct... ways of being smart, including "word smart," "music smart," "logic smart," and "people smart." Now, with the addition of two new kinds of smart--"naturalist" and "existential"--7 Kinds of Smart offers even more interesting information about how the human psyche functions. Complete with checklists for determining one's strongest and weakest intelligences, exercises, practical tips for developing each type of smart, a revised bibliography for further reading, and a guide to related Internet sites, this book continues to be an essential resource, offering cutting-edge research for general consumption.

A unique approach to organizing and constructing business presentations that draws on the insights of cognitive psychology and provides an... infrastructure to build presentations that resonate with your audience like a good story.

7 Summits: A Nurse's Quest to Conquer Mountaineering and Life tells the story of how hard work, persistence, a belief in oneself, and the support of... family and friends can get one to the top of the world. This book is the story of Patrick Hickey s journey as an insecure youth dealing with the challenges of rural life, meager financial resources, and awkward peer interactions. Despite his challenges, he harbored dreams of adventure, faraway places, and success in life. A support network of family, friends, and eventually co-workers played key roles in his direction to a successful career as a university nursing professor, an adventure traveler, and the first nurse in the world to successfully summit the highest mountain on each of the 7 continents of the world. This book explores the broader perspectives of goal setting, motivation, dedication, and the pursuit of challenge in the face of extreme adversity. This book is a captivating story and a must-have for every practicing or student nurse.

This is a complete and expert source of problems with solutions in Vector mechanics for Engineers for 2nd-year college and university engineering... students to cover all aspects of the basic course. This is the comprehensive solved-problem reference in the subject. It provides the student with all the problem solving drill ever needed, all in one book. There is no expository text. A course in engineering mechanics is required of all engineering students. Fifty per cent of the problems are SI.

The national news media has reported frequently that bad business writing is becoming an epidemic in the U.S. Corporate America spends 3.1 billion... dollars per year on remedial writing training. It is estimated that over 255 billion dollars are lost by businesses each year because of bad reading, writing, and math skills. In a survey of the Fortune 1,000 companies, 76% of top executives said that they believe that good writing is crucial to business success, yet only 26% offer any kind of training to help their employees to write professional quality business letters, memos, and reports to customers, suppliers, and each other. Are you an individual who is concerned that your lack of business writing skills is making you look bad and hurting your career? Are you an employer who is frequently appalled at the letters and memos that go out to your customers and suppliers from junior managers? Would you like to find a cost-effective way to help your employees improve their writing skills? The program outlined in the 80/20 Guide (tm) to Business Writing can help. Based on the 80/20 Rule (80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts), the 80/20 Guide (tm) to Business Writing concentrates on the most important issues of grammar, word choice, punctuation, referencing, etc., so the critical issues do not get buried in the trivia of seldom-used grammatical rules. The 80/20 Guide (tm) to Business Writing is everything you need to know about business writing in less than 80 pages. This book provides the program and the tools. All you need is the desire to improve and the 80/20 Guide (tm) to Business Writing can significantly improve your business writing in 30 days or less!

As we all know by now, wireless networks offer many advantages over fixed (or wired) networks. Foremost on that list is mobility, since going wireless... frees you from the tether of an Ethernet cable at a desk. But that's just the tip of the cable-free iceberg. Wireless networks are also more flexible, faster and easier for you to use, and more affordable to deploy and maintain.The de facto standard for wireless networking is the 802.11 protocol, which includes Wi-Fi (the wireless standard known as 802.11b) and its faster cousin, 802.11g. With easy-to-install 802.11 network hardware available everywhere you turn, the choice seems simple, and many people dive into wireless computing with less thought and planning than they'd give to a wired network. But it's wise to be familiar with both the capabilities and risks associated with the 802.11 protocols. And 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition is the perfect place to start.This updated edition covers everything you'll ever need to know about wireless technology. Designed with the system administrator or serious home user in mind, it's a no-nonsense guide for setting up 802.11 on Windows and Linux. Among the wide range of topics covered are discussions on:deployment considerations network monitoring and performance tuning wireless security issues how to use and select access points network monitoring essentials wireless card configuration security issues unique to wireless networks With wireless technology, the advantages to its users are indeed plentiful. Companies no longer have to deal with the hassle and expense of wiring buildings, and households with several computers can avoid fights over who's online. And now, with 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, you can integrate wireless technology into your current infrastructure with the utmost confidence.

This book uses a step-by-step approach to teach the fundamentals of assembly language programming and interfacing of the 8051 microcontroller. It uses... many examples to clarify concepts. Simple, concise examples are utilized to show what action each instruction performs, then a sample is provided to show its application. This text provides a comprehensive understanding of the internal organization of the 8051 registers and resources in a way that sheds the student's fear of assembly language. Whether students become designers of stand-alone systems or complex embedded systems, they will find this text a useful resource.

Well known in this discipline to be the most concise yet adequate treatment of the subject matter, it provides just enough detail in a direct... exposition of the 8051 microcontroller’s internal hardware components. This book provides an introduction to microcontrollers, a hardware summary, and an instruction set summary. It covers timer operation, serial port operation, interrupt operation, assembly language programming, 8051 C programming, program structure and design, and tools and techniques for program development. For microprocessor programmers, electronic engineering specialist, computer scientists, or electrical engineers.

This collection of professional and student essays is arranged thematically with four alternate tables of contents: rhetorical, argument, literature,... and writing about the disciplines. No matter the approach you take in your composition course, this flexible, substantial, and engaging reader will answer your teaching needs. Available packaged with most Longman handbooks at no additional cost, this reader will also answer your students, need for a low cost (no cost!) collection of essays.

Federico Fellini’s masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963 by its sheer auteurist gall. The... hero, a film director named Guido Anselmi, seemed to be Fellini’s mirror image, and the story to reflect the making of 8 1/2 itself.  Whether attacked for self-indulgence or extolled for self-consciousness, 8 1/2 became the paradigm of personal filmmaking, and numerous directors, including Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Bruce LaBruce, paid homage to it in their own work.Now that 8 1/2’s conceit is less shocking, D.A. Miller argues, we can see more clearly how tentative, even timid, Fellini’s ground-breaking incarnation always was.  Guido is a perfect blank, or is trying his best to seem one.  By his own admission he doesn’t even have an artistic or social statement to offer: “I have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway.”  8 1/2’s deepest commitment is not to this man (who is never quite ‘all there’) or to his message (which is lacking entirely) but to its own flamboyant manner.  The enduring timeliness of  8 1/2 lies, Miller suggests, in its aggressive shirking of the shame that falls on the man – and the artist – who fails his appointed social responsibilities.

This richly comic work, long recognized as the most important expression of the director's views about himself and his art, communicates to its viewers... an understanding of the processes of filmmaking itself.