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by Kevin S. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Human impacts are dramatically altering our natural ecosystems but the exact repercussions on ecological sustainability and function remain unclear. As a result, food web theory has experienced a proliferation of research seeking to address these critical areas. Arguing that the various recent and...
Where the River Flows
Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us
Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one...
Gaming the World
How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon...
The Hoods
Crime and Punishment in Belfast
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior....
by Debraj Ray
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1998
If you are instructor in a course that uses Development Economics and wish to have access to the end-of-chapter problems in Development Economics, please e-mail the author at debraj.ray@nyu.edu. For more information, please go to http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/debraj. If you are a student in the course,...
The Recursive Mind
The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I think,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination...
Game Theory Evolving
A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Since its original publication in 2000, Game Theory Evolving has been considered the best textbook on evolutionary game theory. This completely revised and updated second edition of Game Theory Evolving contains new material and shows students how to apply game theory to model human behavior in ways...
American Empire
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head
American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain...
How Enemies Become Friends
The Sources of Stable Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Is the world destined to suffer endless cycles of conflict and war? Can rival nations become partners and establish a lasting and stable peace? How Enemies Become Friends provides a bold and innovative account of how nations escape geopolitical competition and replace hostility with friendship. Through...
A Culture of Growth
The Origins of the Modern Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what...
Guilty of Indigence
The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines...
Confucianism as a World Religion
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism...
by Peter Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in microeconometrics and quantitative marketing. Most econometric models used in microeconomics and marketing applications involve arbitrary distributional assumptions. As more data becomes available,...