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Bounded rationality :heuristics, judgment, and public policy
"An accessible and self-contained treatment of the current state of thinking about rationality in economics and other social sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369664
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- 1 online resource.
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The divide :how fanatical certitude is destroying democracy
"A highly readable and punchy roadmap that ordinary citizens and policymakers alike can use to begin rethinking and refashioning their political interactions to be more productive"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365995
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- 1 online resource.
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Paris and the parasite :noise, health, and politics in the media city
"Smith investigates the role of parasites in the planning of Paris, specifically those stealing resources, hurting the city's health, and interfering of information transmission"--Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2015, under the title: Paris and the parasite : the politics of noise in the mediatic city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363062
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- 1 online resource.
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Data feminism
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask…
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- 9780262358521
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 9780262283885
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Between philosophy and social science :selected early writings
These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable …
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- 0262275694
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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Re-presenting the good society
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory. Contemporary critical social theories face the question of how to justify the ideas of the good society that guide their critical analyses. Traditionally, these more or less determinate ideas of the good society were held to be independent o…
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- 9780262270779
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- 1 online resource (x, 264 pages).
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Meta-Analysis with R
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social sciences who wish to learn how to perform meta-analysis with R. As such, the book introduces the key concepts and models used in meta-analysis. It also includes chapters on the following advanced topics: …
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- 978-3-319-21415-3
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- XII, 252
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- Use R!
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Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography
By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of esti…
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- 978-94-017-8990-5
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- 36 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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Empirical Research in Statistics Education
This ICME-13 Topical Survey provides a review of recent research into statistics education, with a focus on empirical research published in established educational journals and on the proceedings of important conferences on statistics education. It identifies and addresses six key research topics, namely: teachers’ knowledge; teachers’ role in statistics education; teacher preparation; stud…
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- 978-3-319-38968-4
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- VII, 37
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