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JOHN ERICSSON AND THE ENGINES OF EXILE Leaving behind financial ruin in their ancestral Swedish village, in 1810 the Ericsson family brought their small children across the country, entering a dynamic project to link Sweden’s two boundary seas with a warship canal. This move launched John Ericsson, 7, and his brother Nils, 8, into futures of great achievement. John would, in the 1830s, in England, invent the world’s first practical marine propeller and, in the 1860s, in America, invent a whole new kind of warship, the USS Monitor. Nils’ itinerary to fame lifted him by stages, like locks in the Swedish canals he built, before he was put in charge of creating Sweden’s new railroad network. John’s path, though, traversed far stormy waters of rejection, humiliation, injustice and even imprisonment. But in 1862 John was credited with having saved the Union’s blockade of the rebellious South and became an American hero. Why, then, did John continually pledge fealty to Sweden, where he never again set foot? Clues to this mystery may be found in his family’s exodus from their village, or in John’s lifelong rivalry with Nils, or in John’s guilty neglect of his illegitimate Swedish son, Hjalmar, whom he had left behind in Nils’ family. All these are events of this book, but it especially focuses on the incursion into John Ericsson’s life in New York City, in 1876, of the Swedish visitor he least wanted to see. Hjalmar Elworth, who had succeeded Nils as a director of the new Swedish railroad system, came to see our Centennial Exhibition and then to cross America on our new Transcontinental Railroad. He also asked, at 52 years of age, to meet his father for the very first time. The meeting that Ericsson first rebuffed and then agreed to might be called the last of John’s great departures. Over the next 11 years, his many letters to his son charted Ericsson’s surprising discoveries not only in Nature, but in his own nature.

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JOHN ERICSSON AND THE ENGINES OF EXILE Leaving behind financial ruin in their ancestral Swedish village, in 1810 the Ericsson family brought their small children across the country, entering a dynamic project to link Sweden’s two boundary seas with a warship canal. This move launched John Ericsson, 7, and his brother Nils, 8, into futures of great achievement. John would, in the 1830s, in England, invent the world’s first practical marine propeller and, in the 1860s, in America, invent a whole new kind of warship, the USS Monitor. Nils’ itinerary to fame lifted him by stages, like locks in the Swedish canals he built, before he was put in charge of creating Sweden’s new railroad network. John’s path, though, traversed far stormy waters of rejection, humiliation, injustice and even imprisonment. But in 1862 John was credited with having saved the Union’s blockade of the rebellious South and became an American hero. Why, then, did John continually pledge fealty to Sweden, where he never again set foot? Clues to this mystery may be found in his family’s exodus from their village, or in John’s lifelong rivalry with Nils, or in John’s guilty neglect of his illegitimate Swedish son, Hjalmar, whom he had left behind in Nils’ family. All these are events of this book, but it especially focuses on the incursion into John Ericsson’s life in New York City, in 1876, of the Swedish visitor he least wanted to see. Hjalmar Elworth, who had succeeded Nils as a director of the new Swedish railroad system, came to see our Centennial Exhibition and then to cross America on our new Transcontinental Railroad. He also asked, at 52 years of age, to meet his father for the very first time. The meeting that Ericsson first rebuffed and then agreed to might be called the last of John’s great departures. Over the next 11 years, his many letters to his son charted Ericsson’s surprising discoveries not only in Nature, but in his own nature.

This is the first monograph dedicated to contemporary artist TR Ericsson (b. 1972), who with conceptual rigor and emotional directness uses the archives chronicling his family’s painful past to explore the healing powers of commemoration and memory. He grapples with these archival materials’ power to define both the past and future, even as they vanish slowly with time. In a poignant family chronology in text and images, Ericsson includes many photographs of his mother—whose suicide at age 57 was a traumatic turning point in his life and career—along with related photographs, documents, writings, film stills, and artifacts dating back to the 1930s. Two scholarly essays set Ericsson’s work into its artistic and broader cultural context. The complete publication is both a guide to the artist’s work and an inspired chronicle of several generations of a Midwestern family, evoking universal themes of love and loss.

Have you ever built a cool science project? In middle school, Aprille Ericsson won second place in a science fair. She knew she wanted to keep creating amazing science projects. As an adult, she became an engineer and works at NASA building spacecraft. Ericsson was one of the few girls in her middle school who loved math and science. Years later, she became the first woman to receive a PhD in mechanical engineering from Howard University. At NASA, she's helped build spacecraft that can map the moon, monitor climate change, or even bring soil and rocks back from Mars. Learn how Ericsson's passion for science has helped her pave the way for future engineers.

This is the first monograph dedicated to contemporary artist TR Ericsson (b. 1972), who with conceptual rigor and emotional directness uses the archives chronicling his family’s painful past to explore the healing powers of commemoration and memory. He grapples with these archival materials’ power to define both the past and future, even as they vanish slowly with time. In a poignant family chronology in text and images, Ericsson includes many photographs of his mother—whose suicide at age 57 was a traumatic turning point in his life and career—along with related photographs, documents, writings, film stills, and artifacts dating back to the 1930s. Two scholarly essays set Ericsson’s work into its artistic and broader cultural context. The complete publication is both a guide to the artist’s work and an inspired chronicle of several generations of a Midwestern family, evoking universal themes of love and loss.

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384 S. Gebrauchtes Exemplar in sehr gutem Zustand. KEINE Eintragungen/Markierungen. Mozart gilt als der Prototyp des Wunderkindes, als der »geborene« Musiker ein Ausnahmetalent. Ebenso Albert Einstein als Physiker und Lionel Messi als Fußballer. Der Psychologe K. Anders Ericsson hält Talent dagegen für überschätzt. Und bei genauerem Hinsehen wird deutlich: Mozart, Einstein und Messi haben sich ihre Virtuosität hart erarbeitet. Herausragende Leistungen sind nicht angeboren. Ericssons Aufsehen erregende Studien zeigen: Jeder kann Weltklasse sein, wenn er bereit ist, die Grenzen seiner Fähigkeiten beharrlich auszuweiten und bewusst zu lernen. K. Anders Ericsson ist der Begründer des bewussten Lernens, und dieses Buch ist die Summe seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit für ein breites Publikum. - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 14.7 cm x 3.5 cm x 21.8 cm

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorMagnus Ericsson is a simple man. He loves the smell of fresh-turned dirt after springtime plowing. He loves the feel of a soft woman under him in the bed furs. He loves the heft of a good sword in his fighting arm. But, Holy Thor, what he does not relish is the bothersome brood of children he's been saddled with. Or the mysterious happenstance that strands him and his longship full of maddening offspring in a strange new land, where the folks think he is an act-whore (whatever that is), and the woman of his dreams -- a winemaker -- fails to accept that he is her soul mate . . . a man of exceptional talents, not to mention a Very Virile Viking.

In an accessible and compelling account, a naval historian details the story of the USS Monitor, its brilliant creator, Swedish engineer John Ericsson, and its victorious clash with the Confederacy's Merrimac. Reprint.

Cognitive interviewing, based on the self-report methods of Ericsson and Simon, is a key form of qualitative research that has developed over the past thirty years. The primary objective of cognitive interviewing, also known as cognitive testing, is to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying the survey-response process. An equally important aim is contributing to the development of best practices for writing survey questions that are well understood and that produce low levels of response error. In particular, an important applied objective is the evaluation of a particular set of questions, items, or other materials under development by questionnaire designers, to determine means for rewording, reordering, or reconceptualizing. Hence, as well as providing an empirical, psychologically oriented framework for the general study of questionnaire design, cognitive interviewing has been adopted as a 'production' mechanism for the improvement of a wide variety of survey questions, whether factual, behavioral, or attitudinal in nature. As with other methods that rely on qualitative data, cognitive interviewing has increasingly been criticized for being lax in the critical area of the development of systematic methods for data reduction, analysis, and reporting of results. Practitioners tend to conduct cognitive interviewing in varying ways, and the data coding and compilation activities undertaken are often nonstandardized and poorly described. There is a considerable need for further development--and documentation--relating not only to a description of this variation but also to providing a set of recommendations for minimal standards, if not best practices. The proposed volume endeavors to address this clear omission.

IRONCLAD LEGACY: BATTLES OF THE USS MONITOR ISBN 0-9621453-8-6 hardcover with color dust jacket 6 x 9 vertical, 280 pages, 43 color photos, 66 black & white photos When John Ericsson conceived his "impregnable battery" he had no idea that it would still be fighting battles a hundred years after his death. In the mid nineteenth century he struggled to have his concepts approved by distinguished industrialists mired in the past. But then came the War between the States, and the battle that forever changed the way naval strategists viewed warship design and ship-to-ship engagement. The Monitor and the Virginia fought to a standstill, neither ship inflicting significant damage upon the other. By the end of that year (1862) both ironclads were gone: the Virginia was blown up by her crew to prevent capture, the Monitor foundered in a gale off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All was quiescent for more than a century, until the Monitor's badly deteriorated remains were positively identified in 1974. Within months an impregnable barrier was placed around the wreck site: a political artifice called a National Marine Sanctuary. The Monitor's next battle became a legal contest: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wanted the ironclad as its own private research domain, the author wanted it open to the public for whom it had been established as a sanctuary. The controversy raged for six years, until the author won vindication in a court of law. He then led an expedition to the site and took dramatic underwater photographs that captured the Monitor the way it was in 1990--the way it will never be again. The book is amply illustrated with black and white historical photographs, as well as color photographs of the wreck as it appears on the bottom.

Cognitive interviewing, based on the self-report methods of Ericsson and Simon, is a key form of qualitative research that has developed over the past thirty years. The primary objective of cognitive interviewing, also known as cognitive testing, is to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying the survey-response process. An equally important aim is contributing to the development of best practices for writing survey questions that are well understood and that produce low levels of response error. In particular, an important applied objective is the evaluation of a particular set of questions, items, or other materials under development by questionnaire designers, to determine means for rewording, reordering, or reconceptualizing. Hence, as well as providing an empirical, psychologically oriented framework for the general study of questionnaire design, cognitive interviewing has been adopted as a 'production' mechanism for the improvement of a wide variety of survey questions, whether factual, behavioral, or attitudinal in nature. As with other methods that rely on qualitative data, cognitive interviewing has increasingly been criticized for being lax in the critical area of the development of systematic methods for data reduction, analysis, and reporting of results. Practitioners tend to conduct cognitive interviewing in varying ways, and the data coding and compilation activities undertaken are often nonstandardized and poorly described. There is a considerable need for further development--and documentation--relating not only to a description of this variation but also to providing a set of recommendations for minimal standards, if not best practices. The proposed volume endeavors to address this clear omission.

The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue—some would say excluded from it—while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it offers important discussions from some of the leading scholars in writing assessment.Reading and evaluating student writing is a time-consuming process, yet it is a vital part of both student placement and coursework at post-secondary institutions. In recent years, commercial computer-evaluation programs have been developed to score student essays in both of these contexts. Two-year colleges have been especially drawn to these programs, but four-year institutions are moving to them as well, because of the cost-savings they promise. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the programs have been written, and institutions are installing them, without attention to their instructional validity or adequacy.Since the education software companies are moving so rapidly into what they perceive as a promising new market, a wider discussion of machine-scoring is vital if scholars hope to influence development and/or implementation of the programs being created. What is needed, then, is a critical resource to help teachers and administrators evaluate programs they might be considering, and to more fully envision the instructional consequences of adopting them. And this is the resource that Ericsson and Haswell are providing here.

Since the publication of Ericsson and Simon's ground-breaking work in the early 1980s, verbal data has been used increasingly to study cognitive processes in many areas of psychology, and concurrent and retrospective verbal reports are now generally accepted as important sources of data on subjects' cognitive processes in specific tasks. In this revised edition of the book that first put protocol analysis on firm theoretical ground, the authors review major advances in verbal reports over the past decade, including new evidence on how giving verbal reports affects subjects' cognitive processes, and on the validity and completeness of such reports.In a substantial new preface Ericsson and Simon summarize the central issues covered in the book and provide an updated version of their information-processing model, which explains verbalization and verbal reports. They describe new studies on the effects of verbalization, interpreting the results of these studies and showing how their theory can be extended to account for them. Next, they address the issue of completeness of verbally reported information, reviewing the new evidence in three particularly active task domains. They conclude by citing recent contributions to the techniques for encoding protocols, raising general issues, and proposing directions for future research.All references and indexes have been updated.

Between the year 1000 and the mid-14th century, several remarkable events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a very substantial part of the inhabited world, much of it never previously known or suspected to exist by them. Leif Ericsson and other Vikings discovered North America; European crusading armies established themselves in Syria and Palestine; Marco Polo and other Italian merchants, and missionaries such as John of Monte Corvino, penetrated the dominions of Mongolia and China; the Vivaldi brothers sought to open a sea route to India; Jaime Ferrer was lured by dreams of locating the source of West African gold; and the Atlantic island groups, the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores, were all discovered. In this detailed survey, Phillips describes these exciting quests while also exploring their closely related myths and legends, all the while setting the stage for the even greater exploits of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and their successors.For this new Clarendon Paperback edition, Phillips has added both an introduction and a bibliographical essay, the latter of which surveys recent work in what is becoming a thriving area of new research.

Grandma is coming for dinner, and Annie wants to be the most beautiful kid in the world. But she doesn't feel beautiful in the scratchy dress and droopy tights Mama's picked out for her, so she makes a few minor adjustments. "Ericsson has a canny appreciation of the girl's wish to look genuinely stunning. The witty Meddaugh is an ideal collaborator, her cartoons capturing the haphazard get-up and the gleam in Annie's eyes."--Publisher's Weekly.

Practicing SuccessfullyA Masterclass in the Musical Artby Elizabeth A.H. Greenwith a Reflection by Rebecca Ericsson HunterLegendary music educator Elizabeth A. H. Green completed this work in the last days of her life. The manuscript tragically remained undiscovered for many years, but now you can read as she draws upon her decades of experience instructing students of all levels to break down the practicing regimen into a logical learning sequence.In Part One, she suggests isolating difficult musical passages so they become instantly manageable using rhythmic motifs, scales, accentuations, and etudes. In Part Two, experts on various instruments discuss recurring problems and how to defeat them. In the concluding Part Three, Green notes the physiological principles of practice and suggests ways to modify practice sessions to reflect these facts. She writes, Ultimate success depends upon one immutable, inescapable, and well-publicized fact: the musician has to practice successfully or not.Hard Cover. 145 pages.

Paperback. This book is relevant to any kind of business and is currently being used by a number of multi-national companies, including AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Scania and Volvo. This book is relevant to any kind of business and is currently being used by a number of multi-national companies, including AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Scania and Volvo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.