wyszukanych pozycji: 53
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Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780521482981 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text details the policy subsystems - links among members of Congress, interest groups, programme beneficiaries, federal and subnational government agencies - that blanket the American political landscape. The authors have constructed a new data base detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program, and use it to examine four myths about the impact of policy subsystems on American government and democratic practice. These include the myth that policy subsystems are a major contributor to the federal deficit; that once created, federal programs grow inexorably...
This text details the policy subsystems - links among members of Congress, interest groups, programme beneficiaries, federal and subnational governmen...
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403,82 |
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Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment
ISBN: 9780521641661 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment offers an important new cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most important problems in modern economics, creating employment and economic growth. Presenting original theoretical and empirical research by leading experts in an accessible style, it will be vital reading for policy professionals as well as researchers and students in disciplines such as knowledge management, industrial organization, the economics of technological change and international economics. Case study material is taken from countries including France, Germany, Holland,...
Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment offers an important new cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most important problems in modern econ...
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321,42 |
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Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Evaluations
ISBN: 9781881303947 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Focusing specifically on holistic scoring, this text looks at issues surrounding the assessment of writing, looking at its social, historical and theoretical context, and questioning what is really meant by good writing.
Focusing specifically on holistic scoring, this text looks at issues surrounding the assessment of writing, looking at its social, historical and theo...
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286,57 |
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Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521537230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy is arguably the most influential book ever written concerning Kant. It propelled Kant's Critical Philosophy, which had previously enjoyed an equivocal reception, into the central position which it has held to this day. It also brought fame to Reinhold, who became a professor at Jena and later developed his own "Elementary Philosophy." This volume presents the first English translation of the work, together with an introduction that sets it in its philosophical and historical contexts.
Reinhold's Letters on the Kantian Philosophy is arguably the most influential book ever written concerning Kant. It propelled Kant's Critical Philosop...
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180,82 |
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The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks
ISBN: 9780521824613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization. It explains the sea change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, and analyzes why some countries have achieved striking gains in democratization while others have experienced erosions. The book presents general theoretical arguments about what causes and sustains democracy in its analysis of nine theoretically compelling country cases.
This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratizat...
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437,76 |
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Society and Identity: Toward a Sociological Psychology
ISBN: 9780521323253 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be an individual in today's world. This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the human person, and to pose an alternative definition of identity based on it being socially constructed. Beginning with a review of previous studies of identity, the authors present a set of propositions for organizing the wide range of uses of the term, and for arriving at an adequate definition of...
Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be ...
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239,00 |
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Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
ISBN: 9780521809597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in the 1990s. They review recent advances in network measurement, network sampling, analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, analysis of diffusion through networks, analysis of affiliation or "two-mode" networks, the theory of random graphs, and dependence graphs.
This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, lead...
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486,23 |
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 31
ISBN: 9780521807722 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 31 include: The landscape of Beowulf; Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons; The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome; The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority; Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmission of Old English verse; Aelfric on the creation and fall of the angels; The Colophon of the Eadwig Gospels; Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England; Bibliography for 2001.
Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Articles in volume 31 include: The landsca...
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442,61 |
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30
ISBN: 9780521802109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic. Volume 30 will include: Old sources, new resources: finding the right formula for Boniface; The illness of King Alfred the Great; The social context of narrative disruption in the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge Corpus Christi College; 23 Psychomachia; Anglo-Saxon prognostics in context: a survey and...
Anglo-Saxon England consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture--linguistic, literary, textual, palaeograph...
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442,61 |
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Metric Constrained Interpolation, Commutant Lifting and Systems
ISBN: 9783764358891 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This monograph combines the commutant lifting theorem for operator theory and the state space method from system theory to provide a unified approach for solving both stationary and nonstationary interpolation problems with norm constraints. Included are the operator-valued versions of tangential Nevanlinna-Pick problem, the Hermite-Fejer problem, the Nehari problem, the Sarason problem, and the two-sided Nudelman problem, adn their nonstationary analogues. The main results concern the existance of solutions, the explicit construction of the central solutions in state space form, the maximum...
This monograph combines the commutant lifting theorem for operator theory and the state space method from system theory to provide a unified approach ...
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422,45 |
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A Monetary History of Italy
ISBN: 9780521443159 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete analysis of a country that has experienced diverse and often dramatic monetary conditions. The book contributes in a novel way not only to the monetary debate, but also to fiscal and institutional questions. The authors combine economic theory, statistical data, and history in an accessible way that should prove useful to both economic historians and monetary economists.
This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete analysis of a country that has ...
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641,37 |
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To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles
ISBN: 9780192801425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is a challenging puzzle book covering logic, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics. It contains many puzzles and their solutions and aims to attract many readers in an age where computer science, logic, and mathematics are becoming increasingly important and popular.
This is a challenging puzzle book covering logic, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics. It contains many ...
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73,06 |
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Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum
ISBN: 9780253219565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Richly illustrated with more than 160 full-color plates, Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum presents a selection of the finest works from one of the best university art museums in the world. Included are examples from the full range of world cultures collected by the museum: Africa, the Ancient Western World, Asia, Ancient America, the South Pacific, and Western Art before and after 1800. The entry accompanying each piece, by the curator of that collection, sketches the cultural context within which the object was created and used and describes the unique qualities that... Richly illustrated with more than 160 full-color plates, Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum presents a selection of the finest work... |
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158,63 |