Bøker av Michael Meyer

Die Grundlage dieses Buches bildet ein Interview mit einer Erstklässlerin zur Zahl Null. Dieses wurde mit verschiedenen theoretischen Perspektiven unter Nutzung einer interpretativen Methode analysiert. Die Perspektiven entstammen der Mathematik, ihrer Didaktik sowie diverser Bezugsdisziplinen (u. a. Germanistik, Naturwissenschaftsdidaktik, Philosophie und Soziologie). Ziel der Analysen (der Geschichten) ist die interaktionistische Rekonstruktion des Gespräches: Was erlaubt die jeweilige Theorie zu erfassen? Anschließend werden die Analysen verglichen, um Spezifika und den Mehrwert herauszustellen.

London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth control pamphlet. Remarkably - forty-five years before the first woman will be admitted to the English bar - Annie is defending herself. Before Britain's highest judge she declares it is a woman's right to choose when, and if, to have children. At a time when women were legally and socially subservient to men, Annie's defiant voice was a sensation. The riveting trial scandalised newspapers, captivated the British public and sparked a debate over morals, censorship and sex.Drawing on unpublished archives, private papers and courtroom transcripts - and featuring an incredible cast including Queen Victoria, George Bernard Shaw and London itself - A Dirty, Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a forgotten pioneer who refused to accept the role the Establishment assigned to her. Instead, she chose to resist.

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia?a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin's wager was misused, neglected, and contested?but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin's stake in the ?leather-apron? class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.

Häufig ist zu hören, dass Mathematik schwierig, nicht anwendbar und formal sei, die Schulmathematik der Grund- und unteren Sekundarstufe jedoch einfach, anwendbar und verständlich. In beiden Ansichten verbirgt sich jedoch nur die halbe Wahrheit. Fangen wir doch einfach einmal bei der Arithmetik in der Grundschule an: Warum hat eine Rechenoperation wie die Division eigentlich nur ein einziges Ergebnis? Woher kommen die natürlichen Zahlen? Die elementare Mathematik beruht bei Weitem nicht nur auf der Nutzung der vier verschiedenen Grundrechenarten. Insbesondere das Unterrichten von Mathematik beinhaltet nicht nur das Wissen um mathematische Objekte, sondern auch um deren Ursprünge und Beziehungen untereinander. Anders formuliert: Die elementare Schulmathematik muss von einem höheren Standpunkt aus betrachtet werden.Die Idee des Buches ist einfach erklärt: Es geht in erster Linie um die Einführung in mathematische Denk- und Schreibweisen und erst danach um das Erlernen bestimmter mathematischer Inhalte. Vorbereitende Aufgaben, die an der Mathematik der Grund- und unteren Sekundarstufe ansetzen, sollen Einblick in die Inhalte des jeweiligen Kapitels vermitteln, sodass die Inhalte selbst weniger Probleme bereiten sollten. Ausgehend hiervon wird der Fokus auf die Darstellung der Inhalte und den Umgang mit ihnen gelegt. Die Präsentation der Inhalte in Form von Definitionen, Sätzen und Beweisen bildet den Kern der Inhaltsbetrachtungen. Hierbei wird häufig zwischen einer formalen Darstellung und einer Prosaform gewechselt, teilweise (insbesondere zu Beginn des Buches) wird beides angeführt. Die Wahl der jeweiligen Darstellung dient dem Aufbau von Verständnis bei der Leserschaft (das Buch richtet sich an Lehramtsstudierende für Primarstufe, Sonderpädagogik und Sekundarstufe I). Durch die Wahl einer Prosaform werden an einigen Stellen mathematische Details wegfallen. Die Mathematikexpert*innen mögen dies verzeihen.

The prolonged boom in the U.S. and European stock markets has led to increased interest in the mathematics of security markets, most notably in the theory of stochastic integration. This text gives a rigorous development of the theory of stochastic integration as it applies to the valuation of derivative securities. It includes all of the tools rea

A Journey in Time Reveals a Family Mystery When Daniel, a successful writer, tries to escape his midlife crisis and the current stress of a high-tech pace, he's suddenly thrust into the cradle of the Civil War. In this journey in time he discovers a family mystery, one that delights his fancy, brings him to the brink of death, and drives him to question his sanity. Toggling between the characters that intertwine from his past and present teaches him what he's missing, and becomes the key to his future happiness. His elusive mentor is time and his final deliverance is The Ancestor. Who is this Ancestor?

As a storyteller, I have been able to meet so many great people in the first year of my craft beer journey. In doing so I wanted to share with everyone these stories so that when you come to Nebraska you can enjoy the same experiences I have. The stories are just as much if not more about the people but I will definitely describe the great craft beers that I have tried along the way! I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I have writing them. Cheers!

?[T]he most exciting new book on Thoreau's ideas to appear in the '70's.?-Walter Harding, Thoreau Society Bulletin

This text aims to show that philosophy as foundational is possible and necessary, and that rhetoric can flourish alongside, but the conception of reason must be changed. It argues that questioning rather than answering must be considered as the guiding principle in philosophy.

Includes the plays Lunatic and Lover, A Meeting in Rome, The Summer in Gossensass from Michael Meyer.