Composition As A Human Science

Author : Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195067827
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composition as a Human Science written by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These groundbreaking essays reflect on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language.

Author : Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197723524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composition as a Human Science written by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the subject of composition has firmly established itself in secondary schools and universities as one worthy of study, philosophical premises on composition have yet to be discussed. This collection of essays draws together the different philosophical viewpoints on the matter.

Author : Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361822
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composition As a Human Science written by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection of essays is one of the first works to reflect directly and systematically on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language. Phelps articulates a philosophy of composition generous enough to accommodate all the strands of current work without being overly eclectic--an open framework subject to modification and addition as the field develops. She draws on wide reading in the humanities and social sciences--including cognitive science, linguistics, literary theory, education, philosophy, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and psychology--to define the contribution and place of composition studies within the larger intellectual and cultural community. The book will therefore interest theorists and scholars in a wide variety of fields.

Author : Gilbert B. Forbes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461246547
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Body Composition written by Gilbert B. Forbes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has always been curious about himself, a curiosity that began centuries ago with an examination of the soul, and that extended in the period of the Renaissance to his anatomy and certain functions such as the circulation of the blood. Chemical science entered the scene in the 18th century, and burst into prominence in the 19th century. As the various chemical elements were discovered, many were found to be present in body fluids and tissues. Organic compounds were recognized; it became known that body heat was produced by the combustion of food; chemical transformations such as the production of fat from carbohydrate were recognized; and in the 1850s it was determined that young animals differed from adults in certain aspects of body composition. As methods for chemical analysis evolved, they were applied to samples of body fluids and tissues, and it became apparent that life depended on chemical normality; and most importantly it was realized that given the necessary amount of food and water the body had the ability to maintain a degree of constancy of what Claude Bernard called the milieu interieur, in other words its interior chemical en vironment.

Author : Eileen E Schell
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973677
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetorica in Motion written by Eileen E Schell and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations of feminist rhetoric. The volume examines familiar themes, such as archival, literary, and online research, but also looks to other areas of rhetoric, such as disability studies; gerontology/aging studies; Latina/o, queer, and transgender studies; performance studies; and transnational feminisms in both the United States and larger geopolitical spaces. Rhetorica in Motion incorporates previous views of feminist research, outlines a set of principles that guides current methods, and develops models for undertaking future inquiry, including working as individuals or balancing the dynamics of group research. The text explores how feminist research embodies what has come before and reflects what researchers, institutions, and instructors bring to it and what it brings to them. Underlying the discovery of this volume is the understanding that feminist rhetoric is in constant motion in a dynamic that resists definition.

Author : Michael P. Muehlenbein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139789007
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Evolutionary Biology written by Michael P. Muehlenbein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging and inclusive, this text provides an invaluable review of an expansive selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals and students in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology. The chapters are organized around four broad themes, with sections devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation within and between human populations, reproductive physiology and behavior, growth and development, and human health from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. An introductory section provides readers with the historical, theoretical and methodological foundations needed to understand the more complex ideas presented later. Two hundred discussion questions provide starting points for class debate and assignments to test student understanding.

Author : Michael F. Bernard-Donals
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521595063
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Theory written by Michael F. Bernard-Donals and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the practical use of theory as a pedagogical aid and argues for a broader conception of rhetoric in the human sciences.

Author : Steven Heymsfield
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736046558
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Body Composition written by Steven Heymsfield and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2nd edition of Human Body Composition includes updated information and new chapters. The editors and 35 contributors are well respected researchers in the field of body composition science. This is one of few texts that provides comprehensive coverage of body composition research. The primary intent is to present current information on research methods. This book can serve as a textbook for those who are students or new researchers. Descriptions of various methods and background information are imparted in great detail with numerous references. New chapters address energy expenditure, animal body composition, molecular genetics and body composition as it relates to disease states of cancer, HIV, obesity and certain inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This book is recommended for students and new researchers in the field of body composition research who need to learn various methods, histories and practical applications--Publisher's description.

Author : Sidney I Dobrin
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809387883
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcomposition written by Sidney I Dobrin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading a burgeoning self-critical moment in composition studies and writing program administration, Postcomposition is a fundamental reconsideration of the field that attempts to shift the focus away from pedagogy and writing subjects and toward writing itself. In this forceful and reasoned critique of many of the primary tenets and widely accepted institutional structures of composition studies, Sidney I. Dobrin delivers a series of shocks to the system meant to disrupt the pedagogical imperative and move beyond the existing limits of the discipline. Dobrin evaluates the current state of composition studies, underscoring the difference between composition and writing and arguing that the field's focus on the administration of writing students and its historically imposed prohibition on theory greatly limit what can be understood about writing. Instead he envisions a more significant approach to writing, one that questions the field's conservative allegiance to subject and administration and reconsiders writing as spatial and ecological. Using concepts from ecocomposition, spatial theory, network theory, complexity theory, and systems theory, Postcomposition lays the groundwork for a networked theory of writing, and advocates the abandonment of administration as a useful part of the field. He also challenges the usefulness of rhetoric in writing studies, showing how writing exceeds rhetoric. Postcomposition is a detailed consideration of how posthumanism affects the field's understanding of subjectivity. It also tears at the seams of the "contingent labor problem." As he articulates his own frustrations with the conservatism of composition studies and builds on previous critiques of the discipline, Dobrin stages a courageous-and inevitably polemical-intellectual challenge to the entrenched ideas and assumptions that have defined composition studies.

Author : B.F Skinner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716153
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science And Human Behavior written by B.F Skinner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two. “This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.” —Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology “This is a remarkable book—remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior…It ought to be…valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.” —Harry Prosch, Ethics