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Sociocultural Systems Principles of Structure and Change
Macrosociology—the study of large-scale social structures and the fundamental principles of social organization—was the style of sociology practiced by the founders of the discipline. Today, the social theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer (among others) are commonly studied as part of the history of the field, but, although the macrosociological approach th…
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- 6 x 9, 404 pages
Control Theory Tutorial : Basic Concepts Illustrated by Software Examples
This open access Brief introduces the basic principles of control theory in a concise self-study guide. It complements the classic texts by emphasizing the simple conceptual unity of the subject. A novice can quickly see how and why the different parts fit together. The concepts build slowly and naturally one after another, until the reader soon has a view of the whole. Each concept is illustra…
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- 978-3-319-91707-8
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- 003.5 FRA c
Statistics of Financial Markets An Introduction
Now in its fifth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance. The reader will learn the basic methods for evaluating option contracts, analyzing financial time series, selecting portfolios and managing risks based on realistic assumptions about market behavior. The focus is both on the fundamentals of mathematical fin…
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- 978-3-030-13751-9
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- 49 b/w illustrations, 288 illustrations in colour
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- XXXVI, 585
FM 2015: Formal Methods 20th International Symposium, Oslo, Norway, June 24-…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2015, held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2015. The 30 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of all the different aspects of the use of and the research on formal methods for software development.
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- 978-3-319-19249-9
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- 156 b/w illustrations
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Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems
What are the causes and consequences of species diversity in forested ecosystems, and how is this species diversity being affected by rapid environmental and climatic change, movement of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores into new biogeographic regions, and expanding human populations and associated shifts in land-use patterns? In this book, we explore these questions for assemblages of for…
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- 577.3 CAU
Advances in Dynamic and Evolutionary Games: Theory, Applications, and Numeric…
This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 16th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 9-12, 2014, in Amsterdam. Written by experts in their respective disciplines, these papers cover various aspects of dynamic game theory including differential games, evolutionary games, and stochast…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-28014-1
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- XVII, 319
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- Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games
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- 006.6 ADV a
Solidarités provinciales Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et tr…
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale, et elle se poursuit dans les plus récentes luttes visant à défendre les normes sociales et…
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- 978-1-927356-29-6
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- Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
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- 336 pages
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics Historical Studies of Alberta and Be…
Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and media developments from Western Canada and Europe, contributors trace the impact of eugenics on nursing practices, politics, and social attitudes, while investigating the ways in which eugenics discourses persisted unexpectedly and remained mostly unexamined in psychiatric practice. This volume further extends historical analysis into…
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- 9781771992657.01
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- 6 x 9, 412 pages
Labour Landmarks in New Brunswick | Lieux historiques ouvriers au Nouveau-Bru…
Une aventure originale en histoire publique — une tournée de 50 lieux où des familles, des travailleuses et des travailleurs, des syndicats et des communautés ont reconnu la place des travailleuses et des travailleurs dans l’histoire du Nouveau-Brunswick du 20e siècle. Dix courts chapitres, des notes explicatives, des illustrations et une carte.
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- 978-1-894000-09-3
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- CCLH Publications
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Languages, Design Methods, and Tools for Electronic System Design: Selected C…
This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the seventeenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which took place on October 14-16, 2014, in Munich, Germany. FDL is a well-established international forum devoted to dissemination of research results, practical experiences and new ideas in the application of specification, design and verif…
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