Theory category: 79975 books
by John Urry
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution.
Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to...
by Karl G. Heider
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
When originally released, Frank Hyneman Knight's The Economic Organization revitalized the teaching of economic theory in America during the 1930s, laying the foundation for the price theory revolution led by economists emerging from Knight's circle at The University of Chicago. Knight shows that...
by Vadim Ivanovich Serdobolskii
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This monograph presents mathematical theory of statistical models described by the essentially large number of unknown parameters, comparable with sample size but can also be much larger. In this meaning, the proposed theory can be called "essentially multiparametric". It is developed on...
Microeconomic Theory
A Heterodox Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach develops a heterodox economic theory that explains the economy as the social provisioning process at the micro level. Heterodox microeconomics explores the economy with a focus on its constituent parts and their reproduction and recurrence, their integration...
by Vladimir Kanovei, Marcin Sabok, Jindřich Zapletal
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book lays the foundations for an exciting new area of research in descriptive set theory. It develops a robust connection between two active topics: forcing and analytic equivalence relations. This in turn allows the authors to develop a generalization of classical Ramsey theory. Given an analytic...
by Marcia Hill, Mary Ballou
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Explore the obstacles and challenges involved in bringing feminist values and techniques into mainstream therapy
Feminist therapy has been challenging mainstream therapy thinking and practice for the past thirty years. The Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy is the first book to provide...
The End of Theory
Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system
Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession—but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our...
Econodynamics
The Theory of Social Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In this book the theory of social production is systematically formulated in terms and concepts of classical political economy and neo-classical economics. In this way the subject becomes accessible not only to professional researchers in areas of the theory of production and economic growth, but...
Emergent Nested Systems
A Theory of Understanding and Influencing Complex Systems as well as Case Studies in Urban Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book presents a theory as well as methods to understand and to purposively influence complex systems. It suggests a theory of complex systems as nested systems, i. e. systems that enclose other systems and that are simultaneously enclosed by even other systems. According to the theory presented,...
The Human Touch in Education Leadership
A Postpositivist Approach to Understanding Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Palestini advances a new theory of educational leadership seen through the dual lens of critical theory and the Ignatian vision and its practical implications. A truly novel approach, the author strives to acquaint administrators and students of educational administration with a different way of thinking...
Feminist Theory
From Margin to Center
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented...
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
The Feminist Theory from Margin to Center Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by Bell Hooks. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
The Instructional Design Knowledge Base
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The Instructional Design Knowledge Base: Theory, Research and Practice provides ID professionals and students at all levels with a comprehensive exploration of the theories and research that serve as a foundation for current and emerging ID practice. This book offers both current and classic interpretations...
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment
Unity of Knowledge in Economics: Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life. This exciting new volume is unique in that it is the first book of its kind in which these problems are analyzed using a unified...