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This series aims to help teenagers make up their own minds on some of the most controversial issues facing people around the world today. The arguments on all sides of each issue are illustrated using quotations taken from a variety of different sources. The readers are guided through the various arguments by a running narrative and the text is supplemented by information boxes and questions. The books in this series will provide useful resource material for current affairs, history, politics and social studies courses. This book uses source material from around the world to examine the various ways different societies restrict access to information. Censorship is examined through the experiences and opinions of different groups around the world, from black South-Africans to homosexuals in the United Kingdom. As well as addressing the more obvious forms of censorship - obscenity laws, film and TV controls and political censorship - the book looks at other, more insidious ways of controlling information.The author discusses the role of media moguls like Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell, and the function of libel laws that can restrict access to legal action to those who can afford it. ... Read more

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Home Schooling - The Darker Side
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This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of then-current efforts to create a theory of human cognition that met the twin goals of precision and complexity. Up until then the standard for precision had been the mathematical theories of the 1950s and 1960s. These theories took the form of precise models of specific experiments along with some informal, verbally-stated understanding of how they could be extended to new experiments. They seemed to fall far short of capturing the breadth and power of human cognition that was being demonstrated by the new experimental work in human cognition. The next 10 years saw two major efforts to address the problems of scope. In 1976, the ACT theory was first described and included a production rule system of procedural memory to complement HAM's declarative memory. This provided a computationally adequate system which was indeed capable of accounting for all sorts of cognition. In 1993, a new version of ACT--ACT-R--was published. This was an effort to summarize the theoretical progress made on skill acquisition in the intervening 10 years and to tune the subsymbolic level of ACT-R with the insights of the rational analysis of cognition.

Although the appearance of generally-available, full-function code set off a series of events which was hardly planned, it resulted in this book. The catalyst for this was the emergence of a user community. Lebiere insisted that assembling a critical mass of users was essential to the ultimate success of the theory and that a physical gathering was the only way to achieve that goal. This resulted in the First Annual ACT-R Summer School and Workshop, held in 1994. In writing the book, the authors became seized by an aspiration that went beyond just describing the theory correctly. They decided to try to display what the theory could do by collecting together and describing some of its in-house applications. This book reflects decades of work in ACT-R accumulated by many researchers. The chapters are authored by the people that did that particular work. No doubt the reader will be impressed by the scope of the research and the quality of the individual work. Less apparent, but no less important, was the effort that everyone put into achieving the overall consistency and technical integrity of the book. This is the first work in cognitive science to precisely model such a wide range of phenomena with a single theory.
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ACT-R: A classic applied cognitive architecure
Along with Unified Theories of Cognition by Newell, 4CAPS by Thibadeau et al., and EPIC by Kieras, The Atomic Components of Thought by Anderson and Lebiere (Eds.) is foundational reading for anyone interested in graduate studies and research in the area of cognitive architectures. This text is a detailed treatise on this architecture at the time of writing and includes how ACT-R attempts to address aspects of cognition related to problem solving, representation, learning, memory, perception, attention, and behaviour. The major novelty of approach is the use of declarative memory propositions and chunks, procedural memory production rules.For the curious, "ACT-R" does not stand for "Atomic Components of Thought"! The most up-to-date advances in ACT-R theory can be found on the ACT-R website.

Where's the atomic components?
I know Anderson is supposed to be one of the great thinkers in thought but I take issue with his title..If you're going to name a book Atomic Components of x, then you need to offer something resembling atomic components???? For example, physics gives us atoms, quarks, leptons, etc. Chemistry the Periodic Table of Elements...Are "memory," "knowledge representation,""performance," "learning," "the visual interface," or any of Anderson's other chapters really atomic components. These all seem to be large, general concepts rather than atomic, "unsplittable" componenentry...The book itself is worth the read for academics and the like but if you judge a book by its title, Anderson misses the mark.

A celebrated model of memory in cognitive science.
This book presents the latest version of ACT-R, which is at present the most elaborated and most widely applied formal model of human memory and complex cognitive performance.Anderson's ACT-R theory is the sort oftheory Cognitive Science should aim at: comprehensive, compact and elegant.This book not only describes the theory, but also shows it is successful inmany different domains of cognitive sience. ... Read more

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Who Else Wants to Become the World's Greatest Mom or Dad Without Putting Yourself to Wit's End in Raising Highly Successful Children? All full-pledged, would-be, and aspiring parents who want to give only the best for their children! Surely, being an exceptionally learned parent is a vital responsibility in building a stable family.

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The editors have sought to compile a handbook of research onCatholic education in areas such as philosophy, law, curriculum,Church documents, and so on. While handbooks on research haveproliferated in recent years in public education, none have beenattempted for Catholic education. The impetus for handbooks ofresearch has been to acknowledge the existence of a knowledge baseundergirding educational practice. The editors feel Catholic educationdeserves the same impetus. ... Read more

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This guide makes it easier than ever to find quality children's books that focus directly on religious themes or characters. Dole offers more than 675 critical evaluations of recently published (since 1990) materials, covering everything from folktales and prose to poetry and plays. Grades PreK-8. ... Read more

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You Want The Best For Your Child – Right?

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A volume in Research on Religion and Education

Series Editors: Stephen J. Denig, Niagara Universityand Lyndon G. Furst, Andrews University

American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity is a qualitative study of how religion and education intersect at one conservativeChristian school. The school is Evangelical and American. The school’s curriculum is bible-based and fulfills its state’seducational requirements for high school graduation. While the school has an environment that is Evangelical, the studentslive in a religiously-diverse world. This book documents how three students and their teacher struggle to understand a worldthat challenges their faith. The context for this understanding is how the teacher presents and the three students come to understandCatholicism, Islam, and the indigenous religions of the Americas.

Americans continue to debate whether religious schools are too parochial and do not prepare students to live a diverse society.It is the opinion of the editors that this book should put to rest some of this fear. We read the manuscript with a critical editorialeye but found the story a compelling one which challenged us to review the tenets of our own faith. The author’s style of presentationis consistent with good scientific discourse yet impels the reader to a view inside the experience of the subjects of thestudy. Reading the manuscript was not only an informative experience but a faith affirming one too. We are very pleased topresent Kevin Taylor’s book, American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity as an important part of our series on research onreligion and education. ... Read more