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A Crime So Monstrous: A Shocking Exposé of Modern-Day Sex ...

A Crime So Monstrous: A Shocking Exposé of Modern-Day Sex ...

E. Benjamin Skinner

The personal stories related here are heartbreaking but in the midst of tragedy Skinner also discovered a quiet dignity that leads some to resist and aspire to freedom.
Verbal Behavior:

Verbal Behavior:

B. F. Skinner

'" The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. This book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say, write, gesture, and think.
Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from ...

Beyond the Box: B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from ...

Alexandra Rutherford

Beyond the Box is the first full-length study of the ways in which Skinner's ideas left the laboratory to become part of the post-war public's everyday lives, and chronicles both the enthusiasm and caution with which this process was ...
Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach

Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach

Gary Novak

Their disappointment would be even greater were they to learn that the foregoing passage was writren by Skinner's other daughter, Julie Skinner Vargas. Dr. Vargas is a highly respected behavioral psychologist who has wriuen extensively on ...
Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier

Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier

Jean Barman

Barman, like Constance Lindsay Skinner, writes on the frontiers of transnational histories, at a moment when North American frontiers and the U.S./Canadian borderland are emerging as fields of serious and fruitful inquiry.'
Digital Bank: Strategies to Launch Or Become a Digital Bank

Digital Bank: Strategies to Launch Or Become a Digital Bank

Chris Skinner

An extensive discussion on the digital revolution in banking — by leading independent commentator Chris Skinner, voted Top 10 Banking Blogger by Financial Brand 2012 and 2013
Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank

Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank

Chris Skinner

Chris Skinner. “Chris's theorem of why digital banking is not only here to stay, but critical to the survival of the retail bank as we know it, starts with some pretty basic assertions, but is backed up with his usual scholarly approach.
Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism ...

Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism ...

Anya Schiffrin

e. BenJAMIn. SkInneR. the. fishinG. industry's. cruelest. catch. (2012). from Bloomberg Businessweek IntRoDuCeD BY ... Benjamin Skinner's article “The Fishing Industry's Cruelest Catch” followed our research into the abuse of foreign crew ...
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of ...

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of ...

Lauren Slater

In Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating, witty and sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments.
The Hammers Genealogy: The Descendents [sic] of Peter ...

The Hammers Genealogy: The Descendents [sic] of Peter ...

Wayne V Parker

Page 108 Sons and daughters of Samuel & Melissa Skinner-Hammers by Wayne V. Parker : . v 117 Prologue to the "Children's" biographies by Alice M. Parker •. _• . 142 Story of grandchildren of Samuel & Melissa Skinner- Hammers 158 Early ...
Cognition, Creativity, and Behavior: Selected Essays

Cognition, Creativity, and Behavior: Selected Essays

Robert Epstein

Four of the essays were coauthored by the eminent psychologist B. F. Skinner.
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

Kari Palonen

This book is the first comprehensive exposition of the work of one of the most important intellectual historians and political theorists writing today.
The Extraordinary Madness of Banks and the Extreme Folly of ...

The Extraordinary Madness of Banks and the Extreme Folly of ...

Chris Skinner

Something which, at the time of writing, the Germans are resisting but which appears to be inevitable. But this is not just another book about the financial crisis. This book is about the outcome.
The Idea of the Republic

The Idea of the Republic

Norberto Bobbio

This book is an exciting example of political philosophy in action, with a breadth of reference (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Rousseau, Pettit and Skinner), and a lightness of touch which is uncommon to works in this field.
Language and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Essay in ...

Language and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Essay in ...

Bernard D. Den Ouden

TM In this statement, Skinner also describes the relationship that he has had with Richards over the past four decades : For nearly forty years Ivor Richards and I have respected each other while disagreeing rather violently. I have never been  ...
Walden Two:

Walden Two:

B. F. Skinner

This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
The Disappearance of Introspection

The Disappearance of Introspection

William Lyons

He reviews the history of introspection in the work of Wundt, Boring, and William James, and reactions to it by behaviorists Watson, Lashley, Ryle, and Skinner.
100 Statements about What Katy Did That Almost Killed My Hamster

100 Statements about What Katy Did That Almost Killed My Hamster

Chris Skinner

In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "What Katy Did.
The Day The Music Died

The Day The Music Died

Quinton Skinner

On February 3, 1959, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly boarded a small plane bound for rock 'n' roll heaven. This is their story, told by the family members, bandmates, and witnesses who lived it.
Skinner Kinsmen Update

Skinner Kinsmen Update

More editions

Think there were eight children one of whom was Mary Alice who married Thomas NEWITT in North Newington, Oxfordshire, England. Any information contact me at esassy®pei.sympatico.ca My name is John H. Newitt and I live at Tyne Valley ...
Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08

Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08

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Authors David Batstone and E. Benjamin Skinner are, however, impressed and heartened by the effectiveness of nongovernmental abolitionists around the world involved not only in brave acts of liberating slaves, but in launching transitional ...
Money for Nothing and Your Cheques for Free

Money for Nothing and Your Cheques for Free

Chris Skinner

And that's what this book is all about: from processing payments over the internet and on your mobile telephone; to payments via cards, cash and cheques; to massive international payments operations and the challenges faced by banks in ...

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