Theory category: 79975 books
Real Estate Valuation Theory
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This monograph critically reviews and updates real estate valuation theory, which is based on neoclassical economics, in light of developments in heterodox economic theory. Building on a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of value theory, the book uses new institutional economics theory...
Measurement Theory in Action
Case Studies and Exercises, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book helps readers apply testing and measurement theories. Featuring 22 self-standing modules, instructors can pick and choose the ones that are most appropriate for their course. Each module features an overview of a measurement issue and a step-by-step application of that theory. Best practices...
by Tilman Borgers, Daniel Krahmer, Roland Strausz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What is the best way to auction an asset? How should a group of people organize themselves to ensure the best provision of public goods? How should exchanges be organized? In An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design, Tilman Börgers addresses these questions and more through an exploration...
by Tenko Raykov, George A. Marcoulides
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades. The book introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes interval...
Game Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
An exciting new edition of the popular introduction to game theory and its applications
The thoroughly expanded Second Edition presents a unique, hands-on approach to game theory. While most books on the subject are too abstract or too basic for mathematicians, Game Theory: An Introduction,...
Game Theory
A Nontechnical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
"A lucid and penetrating development of game theory that will appeal to the intuition . . . a most valuable contribution." — Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, BachThe foundations of game theory were laid by John von Neumann, who in 1928 proved the basic minimax theorem, and with the...
Game Theory
A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
This book serves as an introduction to game theory for students with no prior game theory knowledge, or with limited background in economics and mathematics. It is specifically designed to provide an intuitive and accessible interdisciplinary approach to game theory, while simultaneously exploring...
by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe...
by Hans Bertens
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This third edition of Hans Bertens’ bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics...
Theory's Empire
An Anthology of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting...
Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field Theory
Foreword by David Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
'Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.'
Frank WilczekNobel...
Transcultural Nursing Theory and Models
Application in Nursing Education, Practice, and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
"Transcultural Nursing Theory and Models: Application in Nursing Education, Practice, and Administration is a must read for the nurse currently practicing. National and global changes in demographics, a changing global economy, have further dramatized the need for culturally competent nurses....
Moral Development
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
This class-tested text provides a comprehensive overview of the classical and current theories of moral development and applications of these theories in various counseling and educational settings. Lively and accessible, this text engages students...
Quantum Meaning
A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The problems of indeterminism, uncertainty and statistics in quantum theory are legend and have spawned a wide-variety of interpretations, none too satisfactory.The key issue of discontent is the conflict between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds: How does a classically certain world emerge...