Experimental Conversations

Author : Timothy N. Ogden
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551543
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental Conversations written by Timothy N. Ogden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of the use and limits of randomized control trials, considering the power of theory, external validity, gaps in knowledge, and what issues matter. The practice of development economics has undergone something of a revolution as many economists have adopted new methods to answer perennial questions about the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs. In this book, prominent development economists discuss the use and impact of one of the most significant of these new methods, randomized control trials (RCTs) and field experiments. In extended interviews conducted over a period of several years, they explain their work and their thinking and consider the broader issues of how we learn about the world and how we can change it for the better. These conversations offer specialists and nonspecialists alike a unique opportunity to hear economists speak in their own words, free of the confines of a particular study or econometric esoterica. The economists describe how they apply research findings in the way they think about the world, revealing their ideas about the power of theory, external validity, gaps in knowledge, and what issues matter. Also included are interviews with RCT observers, critics, sponsors, consumers, and others. Each interview provides a brief biography of the interviewee. Thorough annotations offer background and explanations for key ideas and studies referred to in the conversations. Contributors Abhijit Banerjee, Nancy Birdsall, Chris Blattman, Alex Counts, Tyler Cowen, Angus Deaton, Frank DeGiovanni, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Xavi Gine, Rachel Glennerster, Judy Gueron, Elie Hassenfeld, Dean Karlan, Michael Kremer, David McKenzie, Jonathan Morduch, Lant Pritchett, Jonathan Robinson, Antoinette Schoar, Dean Yang

Author : Joseph Grenny
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1260474194
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition written by Joseph Grenny and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.

Author : S. Ram
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176250184
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Teaching Methods written by S. Ram and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004310452
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations and Controversies in the Scientific Study of Religion written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides scholars in the study of religion occasion to discuss the theoretical and methodological issues raised, to debate and expand upon them, or, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, even to refute the arguments made.

Author : David M. Rubenstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982165804
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Experiment written by David M. Rubenstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show—American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more. In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. -Jill Lepore on the promise of America -Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant -Ken Burns on war -Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction -Elaine Weiss on suffrage -John Meacham on civil rights -Walter Isaacson on innovation -David McCullough on the Wright Brothers -John Barry on pandemics and public health -Wynton Marsalis on music -Billie Jean King on sports -Rita Moreno on film Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be.

Author : Jeff Zwiers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003843298
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Conversations written by Jeff Zwiers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

Author : Istvan Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783262141
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science: Conversations With Famous Chemists written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-01-26 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. NMR spectroscopy, computational chemistry, the drama of buckminsterfullerene, the story of the Pill, the politics of atmospheric chemistry and the resonance theory, the beginnings of molecular mechanics and modern stereochemistry are examples of the topics discussed first-hand by, in all likelihood, the most appropriate persons.

Author : William Duckworth
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306808937
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Music written by William Duckworth and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999-05-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Music is comprised of substantial original conversations with seventeen American experimental composers and musicians—including Milton Babbitt, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, and John Zorn—many of whom rarely grant interviews.The author skillfully elicits candid dialogues that encompass technical explorations; questions of method, style, and influence; their personal lives and struggles to create; and their aesthetic goals and artistic declarations. Herein, John Cage recalls the turning point in his career; Ben Johnston criticizes the operas of his teacher Harry Partch; La Monte Young attributes his creative discipline to a Morman childhood; and much more. The results are revelatory conversations with some of America's most radical musical innovators.

Author : Yorick Wilks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475756879
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Conversations written by Yorick Wilks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine Conversationsis a collection of some of the best research available in the practical arts of machine conversation. The book describes various attempts to create practical and flexible machine conversation - ways of talking to computers in an unrestricted version of English or some other language. While this book employs and advances the theory of dialogue and its linguistic underpinnings, the emphasis is on practice, both in university research laboratories and in company research and development. Since the focus is on the task and on the performance, this book provides some of the first-rate work taking place in industry, quite apart from the academic tradition. It also reveals striking and relevant facts about the tone of machine conversations and closely evaluates what users require. Machine Conversations is an excellent reference for researchers interested in computational linguistics, cognitive science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human computer interfaces and machine learning.

Author : Balazs Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260467
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science V written by Balazs Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists contains 36 interviews with well-known scientists, including 19 Nobel laureates, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. These in-depth conversations provide a glimpse into some of the greatest achievements in science during the past few decades, featuring stories of the discoveries, and showing the human drama behind them. The greatest scientists are brought into close human proximity as if readers were having a conversation with them. This volume departs from the previous ones in that it contains interviews with mathematicians in addition to physicists, chemists, and biomedical scientists. Another peculiarity of this volume is that it includes nine interviews from another project, the collection of the late Clarence Larson, former Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission and his wife, Jane (”Larson Tapes”). Contents: H S M (Donald) CoxeterJohn H ConwayRoger PenroseAlan L MackayDan ShechtmanCharles H TownesArthur L SchawlowLeon N CooperAlexei AbrikosovLuis W AlvarezWilliam H PickeringWilliam A FowlerVera C RubinNeta A BahcallRudolf E PeierlsEmilio G SegrèHarold AgnewClarence E LarsonNelson J LeonardPrincess ChulabhornLinus PaulingMiklós BodánszkyMelvin CalvinDonald R HuffmanAlan G MacDiarmidAlan J HeegerJens Christian SkouPaul C LauterburGunther S StentJohn E SulstonRenato DulbeccoBaruch S BlumbergArvid CarlssonOleh HornykiewiczPaul GreengardEric R Kandel Readership: General readers and scientists. Keywords:Nobel Prize;Famous Scientists;Larson TapesReviews:“I recommend this volume, eminently suited for reading or browsing, not only to historians of science but also to practicing mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, physiologists, physicians, and other scientists, especially beginning ones, as well as to students, who will certainly enjoy these inspiring stories by some of science's leading luminaries.”Angewandte Chemie From the Reviews of Previous Volumes “… the conversations encapsulate a time that is past and leave the reader with a comforting glow. The main protagonists have told their tales, and the author has conducted his interviews with sympathy and collected his material with care …”Nature From the Forewords to the Candid Science Volumes “… the Hargittais are to be congratulated on yet another masterful Candid Science volume.”Candid Science V, Arvid Carlsson Nobel Laureate “… share … common hopes for a fruitful future for science and humanity …”Candid Science IV, Arno Penzias Nobel Laureate “… it will stimulate the reader to think in new directions.”Candid Science III, Herbert A. Hauptman Nobel Laureate “… these volumes are exceedingly worthwhile and can be enjoyed by all, young and old.”Candid Science II, Arthur Kornberg Nobel Laureate “… one is sharing in a conversation …” ”Candid Science, Lord Porter, Nobel Laureate Nobel Laureate