Strategies of Quantification

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know little about the social proc...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 2...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 2...

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across a wide range of languages. The findings ...

The number emphasis of new forms of social life - from likes and retweets to star ratings and scores at work - is considered in terms of its pernic...

Reducere. Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precis...

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to...

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore th...

Drawing on a number of literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), the author makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within ...

DescriptionThis textbook teaches the essential background and skills for understanding and quantifying uncertainties in a computational simulation,...

4th edition textbook aimed at students across the social sciences. Expertly explores the methodologies, techniques, issues and theories relevant to...

From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain--the fo...

This classic volume deals with the strategies of both psychotherapists and clients as they manoeuvre around each other in the process of treatment....

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* Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. * Includes original essays by noted artists, curators,...

Importanta pe care a dobindit-o cunoasterea limbilor straine i-a determinat pe educatori sa conceapa noi metode de predare a acestora. In afara de ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven K. ScottUnlike any book you've ever read, Mentored by a Millionaire is made up of fifteen mentoring sessions in whic...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jerome (Research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHE...

This book explores the potential renewal of capital accumulation and the institutions that underlie it, offering a new understanding of the way in ...

Reducere. The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferat...

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The book gives a complete overview of the migration ecology of Western Palearctic raptors. Across seasons and continents, with great navigation abi...

Reducere. In "The Bible of Options Strategies, " "Second Edition, " legendary options trader Guy Cohen systematically presents today s most effective strateg...

A proven, practical and motivational guide to the 10 psychological characteristics displayed by high achievers, that we can all develop in order to...

This is the fi rst comprehensive stocktaking of what the global lowcarbon transition may mean for fossil fuel-dependent countries and how they can ...

The present volume provides answers to contemporary questions in international relations by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies,...

Provides an action plan based on leaner, more operationally proficient ways for maintaining the competitive advantage based on seven new axioms of ...

Reducere. In Detour and Access, François Jullien investigates the subtlety, strategy, and production of meaning in ancient and modern Chinese aesthetic texts...

Publisher: Die Gestalten VerlagNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 335 x 249 x 29Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): StinsonRedescoper...

This book explores the campaign history of California's women legislators and the increasingly complex strategies they used in efforts to transcend...