books about: fallibility

books about: fallibility

books:

Fallibility

Paco's Memories: A General Theory of Fallibility
Linda Amnawah

AuthorHouse, 2001

Paco's Memories is a collection of four fictional stories told by an elderly Puerto Rican man. These stories all feature characters of Puerto Rican heritage and are meant to inspire children to do good. Each story has a moral.

Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine: Fallibility and Responsibility in Clinical Science
Kenneth W. Goodman

Cambridge University Press, 2003

The growth of evidence-based medicine has occurred against a backdrop of health care reform, managed care, cost containment, and quality improvement. Clinicians have been urged to adopt the rigors of science while remaining true to their 'clinical judgment'. This incisive book reviews the history and conceptual origins of evidence-based practice ...

Fallible Man: Philosophy of the Will (Ricur, Paul. Philosophie De La Volonte.)
Paul Ricoeur

Fordham University Press, 1986

The most accessible of Ricoeur's early texts, Fallible Man offers an introduction to phenomenological method.

Eyewitness Reliability in Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction and Litigation

Patrick J. Robins

Lawyers & Judges Publishing, 2001

Short but worthwhile
This book is directed towards people who deal with eye witnesses such as police officers, attornies etc. It explains how sensory input is processed and turned into a memory. The book further explains how and why people remember something differently than it actually ...

Zen and the Art of Funk Capitalism: A General Theory of Fallibility

Karun Philip

AuthorHouse, 2001

Is this book a "white dwarf"?
A white dwarf is a star of massive density. A book qualifies as a "white dwarf" if it is so packed with content that it can be read many times and still yields more insights and understanding each time. This book is only a hundred pages in length and it covers a range ...

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Thomas Gilovich

Free Press, 1993

Vulcans Should Read This Book
Hello, my name is Mr. Spock. You may know me from the TV series StarTrek. For years I've been tormented by the illogic of humans. Let's face it, Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy are not the sharpest phasers in the intergalactic utility belt! Then I read Gilovich's ...

Big Dummies of the Bible: And How You Can Avoid Being A Dummy Too

Stephen M. Miller

Thomas Nelson, 2005

An entertaining and exciting book!
Stephen Miller has once again brought the fun into studying the Bible. As a young adult Christian I find reading the Bible often quite dull. Miller does a great job keeping my attention. I love how he translates the message into modern day terminology and his own added ...

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

George Soros

PublicAffairs, 2006

Compelling advocacy of [the] open society
Most of the meat of this decidedly philosophic opus by one of the world's most successful financial wizards concerns the differences between the closed and open societies that govern us. The closed society is characterized by traditional modes of thought while the ...

Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies

Lloyd J. Dumas

St. Martin's Press, 1999

Awakens us to our extraordinary capability
Lethal Arrogance is the "Silent Spring" of the technological realm, particularly with regard to those technologies that can threaten great numbers of humans or property. Where Rachel Carson brought to our attention the potential harm we faced as a result of our ...

Fanaticism: flight from fallibility. (Perspectives on Fanaticism).: An article from: ETC.: A Review of ...
H.J. Perkinson

International Society for General Semantics, 2002

This digital document is an article from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, published by International Society for General Semantics on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1708 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker ...

Thoughts To Ponder: A General Theory of Fallibility
M Chase

AuthorHouse, 2001

This book is a compilation of thoughts, written in poetic style, that are meant to encourage the reader to be the best they can be. The intention of this book is for each reader to learn to listen to their inner Self (the best teacher each of us has to bring us closer to our Higher Self). The writings are meant to be easy enough for everyone to ...