Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stories of pioneering researchers, Altman offers a history of many of the most important medical advancements in recent years as well as centuries past—from anesthesia to yellow fever to heart disease. With a new preface, he brings readers up to date and continues his discussion of the ethics and controversy that continue to surround a practice that benefits millions but is understood by few. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stories of pioneering researchers, Altman offers a history of many of the most important medical advancements in

The author presents a collection of ways to reap the proven human and corporate benefits of humor at work, organized by core business skill and founded on his own work as a business speaker and coach with the consulting company, Humor That Works.

The director of creative development at Atlantic Records shares a hilarious confessional memoir of the numerous failures, zany humiliations, and silly choices that have marked his first thirty-something years of life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Helping students develop healthy social skills is child’s play This newly retitled edition of the popular Wanna Play provides hundreds of fun and updated activities that help children learn how to behave appropriately and make friends. Ideal for teachers, counselors, and behavior therapists, included are tools for teaching emotion regulation, team-playing, and body safety to all children, making this resource an excellent fit for inclusive settings. New features include: A social interaction checklist for identifying learners’ strengths and weaknesses Teacher-friendly activities that can be used in small groups or with the whole class A chapter on emotions

The letter Z is tired of being in last place. She wants to go first! Clever text and eye-popping artwork put a fun spin on the traditional alphabet book. Full color.

"Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community"--

Help Students develop literacy and language skills through research-based, student-centered vocabulary activities. A Teacher Resource CD is provided that contains all of the activities in full color. 176pp.+ CD.

Written in a conversational tone, this classroom-tested text introduces the fundamentals of linear programming and game theory, showing readers how to apply serious mathematics to practical real-life questions by modelling linear optimization problems and strategic games. The treatment of linear programming includes two distinct graphical methods. The game theory chapters include a novel proof of the minimax theorem for 2x2 zero-sum games. In addition to zero-sum games, the text presents variable-sum games, ordinal games, and n-player games as the natural result of relaxing or modifying the assumptions of zero-sum games. All concepts and techniques are derived from motivating examples, building in complexity, which encourages students to think creatively and leads them to understand how the mathematics is applied. With no prerequisite besides high school algebra, the text will be useful to motivated high school students and undergraduates studying business, economics, mathematics, and the social sciences.

Which sex is stupider? This volume seeks to answer this question, using heavy doses of humor and a multitude of examples. Written by Liz and her husband Roland in order to give both sides of the story, chapters explore the myths of women who cannot operate simple devices, men who bungle simple shopping tasks, women drivers, and men who are clueless about relationships.

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has been on the rise in the United States, but the communication practices of such couples have remained understudied. Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores and describes the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each from different geographic and cultural backgrounds. Based on more than 900 minutes of conversations and interviews, the book offers a data-driven analysis of the ways in which language choices and gender performance shape the stories, conversations, and identities of bilingual couples, which in turn shape the social order of bilingual communities. Using a combination of methodologies to investigate how couples launch, tell, and respond to each other's stories, the book identifies seven main factors that the couples see as primary determinants of their choice of English and Spanish during couple communication. The use of conversation analysis highlights the couples' own practices and perceptions of their language choices, demonstrating how the private language decisions of bilingual couples enable them to negotiate a place in the larger culture, shape the future of bilingualism, and establish a couple identity through shared linguistic and cultural habits.