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The Concise Revision Course CSEC® Human and Social Biology provides full coverage of the new syllabus (first teaching September 2020, first exam June 2022). This book provides comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. It adopts a practical, supportive approach to help students with their learning.

Collins Concise Revision Course CSEC® Human and Social Biology follows the approach developed for the best-selling Collins concise revision courses for biology, chemistry and physics.

- Comprehensive coverage of the CSEC® course, presented in an engaging full-colour format.
- Advice for students on organising their revision, including tips on exam technique, explanations of exam command words, and guidance on drawing graphs, tables and diagrams.
- Revision questions at the end of each topic to help secure knowledge and understanding.
- Exam-style questions at the end of each section provide effective practice
- Answers are available for free at www.collins.co.uk/caribbean
- Written by an experienced teacher

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In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of attempting to teach a short list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in introductory economics. Although recent editions of a few other texts have paid lip service to this new approach, Frank/Bernanke is by far the best thought out and best executed principles text in this mold. Avoiding excessive reliance on formal mathematical derivations, it presents concepts intuitively through examples drawn from familiar contexts. The authors introduce a well-articulated short list of core principles and reinforcing them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles to answer related questions and exercises.The text also encourages students to become ""Economic Naturalists,"" people who employ basic economic principles to understand and explain what they observe in the world around them. An economic naturalist understands, for example, that infant safety seats are required in cars but not in airplanes because the marginal cost of space to accommodate these seats is typically zero in cars but often hundreds of dollars in airplanes. Such examples engage student interest while teaching them to see each feature of their economic landscape as the reflection of an implicit or explicit cost-benefit calculation.

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Robert H. Frank received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1972 and where he currently holds a joint appointment in the department of economics and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has published on a variety of subjects, including price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing, the measurement of unemployment spell lengths, and the distributional consequences of direct foreign investment. For the past several years, his research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behaviour. Professor Bernanke received his B.A. in Economics from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1979. He taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1979 to 1985 and moved to Princeton University in 1985, where he was named the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, where he served as Chairman of the Economics Department. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometrics Society. He was named a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in 2002 and became the chairman of the President's council of Economic Advisers in 2005. In 2006 Ben Bernanke was selected to be the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.Professor Bernanke's intermediate textbook, with Andrew Abel, Macroeconomics, Fifth Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2004) is a best seller in its field. He has authored more than 50 scholarly publications in macroeconomics, macroeconomic history, and finance. He has done significant research on the causes of the Great Depression, the role of financial markets and institutions in the business cycle, and measuring the effects of monetary policy on the economy. His two most recent books, both published by Princeton University Press, include Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (with coauthors) and Essays on the Great Depression. He has served as editor of the American Economic Review and was the founding editor of the International Journal of Central Banking. Professor Bernanke has taught principles of economics at both Stanford and Princeton.

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This CSEC Human and Social Biology Multiple Choice Practice book is a valuable exam preparation aid for CSEC HSB students.

This book provides excellent practice for the multiple choice questions from Paper 1 of the CSEC examination, and has been specially written to help CSEC Human and Social Biology students improve their Paper 1 exam score.

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Exploring Biology, Chemistry and Physics Grade 9 for Jamaica is an activity-led science course for the National Standards Curriculum. It has been specially developed to help students develop the skills they need for success in science.

• Developed and written specifically for Jamaica
• Features special Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities for each topic
• Provides clear and accessible explanations of each topic
• Has Check your understanding sections at the end of each topic to allow teachers and students to assess their progress
• Contains end-of-unit questions to check the students have understood the ideas in each Unit
• Has accompanying workbooks specially written to provide opportunities for written activities, for homework and to help students with revision

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Exploring Biology, Chemistry and Physics Grade 9 for Jamaica is an activity-led science course for the National Standards Curriculum. It has been specially developed to help students develop the skills they need for success in science.

• Developed and written specifically for Jamaica
• Features special Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities for each topic
• Provides clear and accessible explanations of each topic
• Has Check your understanding sections at the end of each topic to allow teachers and students to assess their progress
• Contains end-of-unit questions to check the students have understood the ideas in each Unit
• Has accompanying workbooks specially written to provide opportunities for written activities, for homework and to help students with revision

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The book discusses instrumentation and control in modern fossil fuel power plants, with an emphasis on selecting the most appropriate systems subject to constraints engineers have for their projects. It provides all the plant process and design details, including specification sheets and standards currently followed in the plant. Among the unique features of the book are the inclusion of control loop strategies and BMS/FSSS step by step logic, coverage of analytical instruments and technologies for pollution and energy savings, and coverage of the trends toward filed bus systems and integration of subsystems into one network with the help of embedded controllers and OPC interfaces. The book includes comprehensive listings of operating values and ranges of parameters for temperature, pressure, flow, level, etc of a typical 250/500 MW thermal power plant. Appropriate for project engineers as well as instrumentation/control engineers, the book also includes tables, charts, and figures from real-life projects around the world.

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This edition contains the full text of Twelfth Night with clear and supportive notes. A detailed introduction and a guide to each act and scene give you everything you need to study the play for CSEC® English B.

• Understand the language of the play with clear notes on each page.
• Learn about Shakespeares world and the context of the play in the lively introduction.
• Get to grips with characters, themes and dramatic techniques with a guide to each scene.
• Trace the development of themes across the play with succinct summaries and links to the key scenes.
• Prepare for your final examinations with practice exam questions and annotated sample responses to show you how to improve your work.