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Application Economics Elements Science Social Statistics - HOME Application Economics Elements Science Social Statistics Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models by Enrique del Castillo, Expert systems and uncertainty in artificial intelligence have seen a great surge of research activity during the last decade. This book provides a clear and up-to-date account of the research progress in these areas. The authors begin with a survey of rule-based expert systems, which are mainly applicable to deterministic situations. Since most practical applications involve some degree of uncertainty, the authors then introduce probabilistic expert systems to deal with this element of ...
Economic History - HOME Economic History The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century In some of Western culture's earliest writings, Hesiod defined the basic economic problem as one of scarce resources, a view still held by most economists. Diocletian tried to save the falling Roman Empire with wage and price fixes--a strategy that has not gone entirely out of style. And just as they did in the late nineteenth century, thinkers trained in physics renovated economic inquiry in the late twentieth century. Taking ...
Social Exchange Theory - HOME Social Exchange Theory A Theory of Personality Development by Luciano L'Abate, With characteristic humility Luciano L'Abate has entitled this groundbreaking volume simply A Theory of Personality Development. But the theories put forth in these pages are anything but humble, representing, as they do, a radical departure from tradition. Unlike traditional theories of personality which have tended to be somewhat metaphysical, seeking to understand personality in a vacuum, Dr. L'Abate's theory is firmly rooted in the social and existential exigencies of everyday life as experienced within the five fundamental contexts of home, work, leisure, the marketplace (grocery shopping, barbershops, malls, etc.), and in transit. At the heart of the theory is the conviction that the ability to love and to negotiate are ...
Center for Economic and Social Justice - HOME Center for Economic and Social Justice Policing the Poor: From Slave Plantation to Public Housing by Neil Websdale, While Many Applaud the apparent successes of community and saturation policing, Neil Websdale contends instead that such law enforcement initiatives oppress rather than protect the poor, particularly African Americans in large urban centers. Based on a groundbreaking ethnographic study of public housing projects in Nashville, Tennessee, he argues persuasively that community policing is a critical component of a criminal justice juggernaut designed to manage or regulate stigmatized populations, much like slave patrols served as ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Center Economics Environment Heinz Science - HOME Center Economics Environment Heinz Science American Metropolitics: Social Separation and Sprawl by Myron Orfield, In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, revealed how the different regions of St. Paul and Minneapolis pulled together to create a regional government powerful enough to tackle the community's problems of sprawl and urban decay.Orfield's new work, American Metropolitics, applies the next generation ...
Center Economics Environment Heinz Science - HOME Center Economics Environment Heinz Science American Metropolitics: Social Separation and Sprawl by Myron Orfield, In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, revealed how the different regions of St. Paul and Minneapolis pulled together to create a regional government powerful enough to tackle the community's problems of sprawl and urban decay.Orfield's new work, American Metropolitics, applies the next generation ...
Center Economics Environment Heinz Science - HOME Center Economics Environment Heinz Science American Metropolitics: Social Separation and Sprawl by Myron Orfield, In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, revealed how the different regions of St. Paul and Minneapolis pulled together to create a regional government powerful enough to tackle the community's problems of sprawl and urban decay.Orfield's new work, American Metropolitics, applies the next generation ...
Biological Perspective Psychology - HOME Biological Perspective Psychology Psychology in Perspective by Carol Tavris, Carol Tavris and Carole Wade once again set a new standard with this exciting alternative to traditional treatment of psychology. Psychology in Perspective, 3/e, responds to the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061, which calls upon all scientists to teach for depth of understanding rather than breadth of coverage. The authors have reorganized the traditional material according to the five major perspectives in the field and offer an unbiased presentation of each perspective's strengths, limitations, and misuses. The ... of the Asian Psychology. Philippine Psychology is now being studied in some universities as part of their Psychology courses. Theoretical psychology - Theoretical psychology is concerned with theoretical and philosophical aspects of the discipline of psychology. It is an interdisciplinary field involving psychologists specialising in, amongst others, cognitive, social, developmental, personality, clinical, perceptual, neurological, biological, evolutionary, historical, political and critical psychology. Health psychology - Health psychology is the “…use of psychological principles to promote health and to prevent illness (Taylor, 1990).” Health psychology considers the biological, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, psychosomatic and ...
History of Computer Science - HOME History of Computer Science The Closed World: Computers & the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America by Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World offers a radical alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology - and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories - the history of American ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Social Theory - HOME Social Theory Theories of Social Order by Michael Hechter, This collection of readings provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single most important problem in sociological theory: the problem of social order. Contending that the purpose of theory in the social sciences lies in its ability to explain real-world phenomena, Theories of Social Order departs from the standard theory reader by presenting classical texts alongside contemporary theoretical extensions and recent empirical applications to explore this substantive theme. Its unique approach--focusing on theories rather than theorists and on one ...
Activism Encyclopedia Justice Social - HOME Activism Encyclopedia Justice Social Linking Activism: Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change Linking Activism: Ecology, Social Justice, and Education for Social Change Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America From rodeos to quilting bees, stickball to stock car racing, American pastimes comprise a broad range of activities. The two-volume "Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America "provides a comprehensive survey of these activities from the Colonial era to the present. This title examines how the pursuit of leisure has changed over time, reflecting shifting social, cultural, political and economic ...
Impact Interaction Race Racism Science Social - HOME Impact Interaction Race Racism Science Social Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction Science, Race, and Racism by Jackson, John P., Jr., Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction Race relations - Race relations is the area of sociology that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races at all different levels of society. This area encompasses the study of racism, and of complex political interactions between members of different groups. Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute - The Govind Ballabh Pant Social ...
Chemistry History History Norton Norton Science - HOME Chemistry History History Norton Norton Science The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences by Peter J. Bowler, In The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, Peter J. Bowler chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins, brilliantly synthesizing the discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on Earth and created the new science of ecology. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's ...
Brief History Neoliberalism - HOME Brief History Neoliberalism A Brief History of Neoliberalism A Brief History of Neoliberalism Ecocide: A Short History and Sociology of Mass Extinction of Species by Franz Broswimmer, At the dawn of the twenty-first century, it is clear that -- for the first time since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago -- changes of enormous ecological significance are occurring on our planet. The ozone layer is beginning to disintegrate. Since 1970 the world's forests have almost halved. A quarter of the world's fish has been depleted. We live in ...
Chemistry History History Norton Norton Science - HOME Chemistry History History Norton Norton Science The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences by Peter J. Bowler, In The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, Peter J. Bowler chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins, brilliantly synthesizing the discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on Earth and created the new science of ecology. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's ...
Field Science Social - HOME Field Science Social Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History Asserting the need for social science historians to examine their own field, this wide-ranging volume offers an intellectual history and critical evaluation of interdisciplinary social science and social science historiography. The editors present a creative, experimental mix of topics and genres spanning a range of contemporary thought in the field--exploring the past, present, and future of social science history. This book comes at a time when there is great academic interest in the future of the disciplines ...
Antitrust Economic Law Perspective - HOME Antitrust Economic Law Perspective Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law by Keith N. Hylton, This book consolidates several different perspectives on antitrust law. First, Keith Hylton presents a detailed description of the law as it has developed through numerous judicial opinions. Second, he presents detailed economic critiques of the judicial opinions, drawing heavily from law and economics journals. Third, he integrates a jurisprudential perspective that views antitrust as a vibrant field of common law. This last perspective leads him to address issues of certainty, stability, and predictability in antitrust law, and ...
Standard Social Science Model - HOME Standard Social Science Model Statistical Models for Causal Analysis by Robert D. Retherford, Free of unwieldy mathematics, Statistical Models for Causal Analysis provides a lucid introduction to statistical models used in the social and biomedical sciences, particularly those models used in the causal analysis of nonexperimental data. Featuring an approach that focuses on model specification and interpretation, this innovative work-designed specifically for students and professionals in need of a working knowledge of the subject - is a practice-oriented guide to learning how to use these models in analytical work. Based on ...
Business Economics Economy - HOME Business Economics Economy Political Economy in Macroeconomics by Allan Drazen, Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how politics shape economic outcomes. To date, however, this growing literature has lacked a cogent organization and a unified approach. Here, in the first full-length examination of how ...
Political Science Reference - HOME Political Science Reference A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin, With contributions by 42 of the best political scientists worldwide, A New Handbook of Political Science analyzes the progress made in political science over the past twenty years in the context of historical trends in the field, International in its scope and systematic in its coverage, this comprehensive volume will be an essential reference book for political scientists and those who track their work. It is the ideal companion for all who intend to follow political science into the ...
Antitrust Distribution Economics Law Product - HOME Antitrust Distribution Economics Law Product Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law by Steven Shavell, What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their ...
Social Philosophy - HOME Social Philosophy Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of MacIntyre' ...
Economic Current Event - HOME Economic Current Event The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions by Stephan Haggard, In the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe economic crises and the adoption of market-oriented reforms. The coincidence of these events raises long-standing questions about the relationship between economic and political change. In this book, Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman explore this relationship, addressing a variety of questions: What role have economic crises played in the current wave of political ...
Learning to Teach for Social Justice - HOME Learning to Teach for Social Justice Catholic Social Teaching: Learning and Living Justice, Teacher Manual with Disk by Michael Pennock, Written in accord with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and rooted in the sound catechetical principles of the National Catechetical Directory, these texts present a well-defined curriculum model that stresses clear objectives, careful organization, and creative methods and evaluation procedures to check the attainment of goals. Very flexible, allowing teachers to select materials to highlight and stress, each text can be implemented on various grade levels for a quarter, a ...
Educational Fair Resource Science Science - HOME Educational Fair Resource Science Science Getting Started in Science Fairs: From Planning to Judging by Phyllis J. Perry, Focusing on an elementary school audience, Getting Started in Science Fairs: From Planning to Judging lives up to the promise of its title, providing not only complete descriptions of dozens of creative projects, but also all of the necessary information for staging and judging science fairs. Respected educator Phyllis J. Perry provides teachers, parents, students, and science fair organizers and judges with helpful advice on everything from setting science fair objectives to what roles ...
Book Medical Reference Social Work - HOME Book Medical Reference Social Work Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 Illness and death are significant events for people everywhereand no one is spared. Medical beliefs and practices are not the sameeverywhere. They determine how people understand the causes of illnessand death and how they cope with these events. It is not surprisingtherefore that medical practitioners and others are becomingincreasingly aware of the need to understand the influence of societyand culture on medical belief and practice. Culture - the customaryways of thinking ... topical essays, representing the variousperspectives in medical anthropology, these volumes focus on manyparticular cultures. No other single reference work comes close tomarching the depth and breadth of information on the varying culturalbackground of health and illness around the world. More than 100experts - generally anthropologists but also other social scientists -have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures fromaround theworld.Since medical anthropology is such a diverse course of study, combining both the medical and social worlds, the "Encyclopediaof" "Medical Anthropology" has many audiences. A History of Hypnotism by Alan Gauld, Franz Anton Mesmer ...
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Book Medical Reference Social Work - HOME Book Medical Reference Social Work Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures Topics - Volume 1; Cultures - Volume 2 Illness and death are significant events for people everywhereand no one is spared. Medical beliefs and practices are not the sameeverywhere. They determine how people understand the causes of illnessand death and how they cope with these events. It is not surprisingtherefore that medical practitioners and others are becomingincreasingly aware of the need to understand the influence of societyand culture on medical belief and practice. Culture - the customaryways of thinking ... topical essays, representing the variousperspectives in medical anthropology, these volumes focus on manyparticular cultures. No other single reference work comes close tomarching the depth and breadth of information on the varying culturalbackground of health and illness around the world. More than 100experts - generally anthropologists but also other social scientists -have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures fromaround theworld.Since medical anthropology is such a diverse course of study, combining both the medical and social worlds, the "Encyclopediaof" "Medical Anthropology" has many audiences. A History of Hypnotism by Alan Gauld, Franz Anton Mesmer ...
Business Economics Economy - HOME Business Economics Economy Political Economy in Macroeconomics by Allan Drazen, Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how politics shape economic outcomes. To date, however, this growing literature has lacked a cogent organization and a unified approach. Here, in the first full-length examination of how ...
Antitrust Economics Law New Perspective Towards - HOME Antitrust Economics Law New Perspective Towards Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism by Nicholas Mercuro, The last several decades have witnessed the development of diverse approaches to the evolving field of Law and Economics. Each school of thought within Law and Economics has helped both to redefine the study of law and to expose the important economic implications of the legal environment. Here, Nicholas Mercuro and Steven Medema present a valuable, concise overview of the current perspectives and varied traditions that constitute the field. The authors make clear that ...
Education Philosophy Science - HOME Education Philosophy Science Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia by J. J. Chambliss, X This first-of-its-kind Encyclopedia charts the influence of philosophic ideas that have had the greatest influence on education from ancient Greece to the present. It covers such classical thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Hypatia, Locke, and Rousseau, as well as such recent figures as Montessori, Heidegger, Du Bois, and Dewey. It illuminates time-honored ideas and concepts such as idealism, practical wisdom, scholasticism, tragedy, and truth, as well as such modern construct as critical theory, existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, and post-colonialism. The Encyclopedia also examines contributions from politics, religion, poetry, rhetoric, the social sciences, and other fields. The coverage consists of 228 articles by 184 contributors, who survey the full spectrum of the philosophy of education. While the emphasis is on theory, many articles show how theory works in practice. For students and general readers, the Encyclopedia demonstrates ...
Definition of Social Justice - HOME Definition of Social Justice American Catholic Social Teaching with CDROM by Thomas Massaro, Whenever a homily about justice and charity is preached, whenever a union leader or politician inspired by papal pronouncements about just wages stands up to help poorly paid workers, whenever a diocesan newspaper publishes an article advocating creative ways to battle injustices of any sort--these are the ways Catholic social teachings are realized in the everyday world. "Catholic social teaching" is usually applied to approximately a dozen documents from Vatican sources--popes, councils, and synods of bishops. These " ...
Business Economics Economy - HOME Business Economics Economy Political Economy in Macroeconomics by Allan Drazen, Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how politics shape economic outcomes. To date, however, this growing literature has lacked a cogent organization and a unified approach. Here, in the first full-length examination of how ...
Classics Economic Economy Political Principle Reprint - HOME Classics Economic Economy Political Principle Reprint Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill, The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848) was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, Mill systematically demonstrated how important economic concepts could be applied to real-world situations. In his emphasis on realism, Mill thus took economics out of ...
Business Economics Economy - HOME Business Economics Economy Political Economy in Macroeconomics by Allan Drazen, Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how politics shape economic outcomes. To date, however, this growing literature has lacked a cogent organization and a unified approach. Here, in the first full-length examination of how ...
Brief Disease History Medicine Science - HOME Brief Disease History Medicine Science The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine by Roy Porter, Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this lavishly-illustrated volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, while at the same time engaging with the issues, discoveries, and controversies that have beset and characterized medical progress. The authors weave a narrative that ...
Economics And Politics In The Weimar Republic (New Studies In Economic And Social History, 45) (Paperback) : Author: Balderston, Theo. Number of Pages: 123. Published On: 2002/11/01. Language: ENGLISH
The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers (Unabridged) : Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigor...
The Company Of Strangers: A Natural History Of Economic Life (Paperback) : Author: Seabright, Paul. Number of Pages: 304. Published On: 2005/07/29. Language: ENGLISH
Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, And Economics Of America S Only TV Channel For Kids (Paperback) : Author: Hendershot, Heather (EDT). Number of Pages: 304. Published On: 2004/02/01. Language: ENGLISH
Discovering World Cultures: The Middle East (Middle School Reference) (Hardcover) : Examines the history, geography, economics, culture, religion, natural resources, and people of sixteen Midd...