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Neural Nets: Applications in Geography
ISBN: 9789401044905 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences. However, the number of studies that have utilized these techniques is limited. This lack of interest can be attributed, in part, to lack of exposure, to the use of extensive and often confusing jargon, and to the misapprehension that, without an underlying statistical model, the explanatory power of the neural net is very low. Neural Nets: Applications for Geography attacks all three issues; the text demonstrates a wide variety of neural net...
Neural nets offer a fascinating new strategy for spatial analysis, and their application holds enormous potential for the geographic sciences. However...
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201,24 |
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Ethics: The Good and the Right
ISBN: 9789401735896 / Angielski / Miękka / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the systemof human knowledge. 1. VALUE, MORALITY AND ACTION: FACT, THEORY, AND METATHEORY We take it that all animals evaluate some things and some processes, and that some of them learn the social behavior patterns we call 'moral principles', and even act according to them at least some of the time. An animal incapable of evaluating anything would be very short-lived; and a social animal that did not observe the accepted social behavior patterns would...
The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the syste...
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1127,15 |
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Malta Und Die Boatpeople: Eine Ethnologie Der Interkulturellen Begegnung
ISBN: 9783631640777 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 379 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Europa ringt an seinen Aussengrenzen, aber auch im Innern, um Integration. Immer dringlicher wird die Frage nach der Gestaltung unseres Zusammenlebens. Die Arbeit nimmt dieses Problem auf der Mittelmeerinsel Malta in den Blick. Dort treffen durch Migrationsbewegungen von Afrika nach Europa Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft aufeinander. Ihre Lebenswelten geraten dadurch in Bewegung: Sie erleben dabei Momente der Irritation und der Unsicherheit. Die Studie geht nicht dem Offensichtlichen nach, sondern analysiert die Komplexitat alltaglicher Interaktionen zwischen Einheimischen und...
Europa ringt an seinen Aussengrenzen, aber auch im Innern, um Integration. Immer dringlicher wird die Frage nach der Gestaltung unseres Zusammenlebens...
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435,72 |
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Governance - Ein Erfolgspfad?
ISBN: 9783656355069 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,68 |
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Zeit Und Politikberatung: Eine Systemtheoretische Analyse
ISBN: 9783658043063 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Verhaltnis von Politik und Zeit ist in der Politikwissenschaft oftmals vernachlassigt. Stefan Vorderstrae legt den Fokus auf die Bedeutung von Zeit in Strukturen und Prozessen der Politikberatung. Politische Entscheidungstrager sehen sich unter den Bedingungen einer stets gegenwartig entscheidungsabhangigen und ungewissen Zukunft dem Problem ausgesetzt, kollektiv verbindliche Entscheidungen treffen zu mussen. Politik ist zudem mit einem Koordinierungsbedarf konfrontiert, dem sie uber Politikberatung zu begegnen versucht. Auf Basis systemtheoretischer Konzepte geht der Autor der Frage...
Das Verhaltnis von Politik und Zeit ist in der Politikwissenschaft oftmals vernachlassigt. Stefan Vorderstrae legt den Fokus auf die Bedeutung von Zei...
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225,72 |
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Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
ISBN: 9781598740370 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences--especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory--have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of...
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, disclos...
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783,64 |
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Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
ISBN: 9781598740387 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative. He shows how the human sciences--especially in his own areas of interpersonal, family, and communication theory--have evolved from sciences directed toward prediction and control to interpretive ones focused on the search for meaning through qualitative, narrative, and ethnographic modes of...
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, disclos...
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205,65 |
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Pedagogy of Solidarity
ISBN: 9781611329643 / Angielski / Twarda / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, Freire addresses issues not often highlighted in his work, such as globalization, post-modern fatalism, and the qualities of educators for the 21st century. His illuminating comments are supplemented with commentaries by other well-known scholars, such as Ana Maria Araujo Freire, Walter de Oliveira, Norman Denzin, Henry Giroux, and Donaldo Macedo.
Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social jus...
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710,17 |
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Pedagogy of Solidarity
ISBN: 9781611329650 / Angielski / Miękka / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social justice in schools and society. In a set of talks and interviews shortly before his death, Freire addresses issues not often highlighted in his work, such as globalization, post-modern fatalism, and the qualities of educators for the 21st century. His illuminating comments are supplemented with commentaries by other well-known scholars, such as Ana Maria Araujo Freire, Walter de Oliveira, Norman Denzin, Henry Giroux, and Donaldo Macedo.
Famous Brazilian educational and social theorist Paulo Freire presents his ideas on the importance of community solidarity in moving toward social jus...
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190,96 |
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Habitus Und Politik in Kärnten: Soziogenetische Und Psychogenetische Grundlagen Des Systems Jörg Haider
ISBN: 9783658042394 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karnten wird in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur als "Sonderfall" der osterreichischen Zeitgeschichte beschrieben; der Volksgruppenkonflikt zwischen der slowenischsprachigen Minderheit und der deutschsprachigen Mehrheit, der politische Erfolg des "Dritten Lagers" und eine politische Kultur, die mit Korruptionsskandalen, Ausgrenzung von Fremden und Diffamierung in Zusammenhang gebracht wird, ist kennzeichnend. Christian Dorner-Horig untersucht, auf welche Weise diese Besonderheiten mit der Soziogenese und Psychogenese Karntens zusammenhangen. Es kann gezeigt werden, dass die Etablierung...
Karnten wird in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Literatur als "Sonderfall" der osterreichischen Zeitgeschichte beschrieben; der Volksgruppenkonflikt zwis...
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206,88 |
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Researching Identity and Interculturality
ISBN: 9780415739122 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies of identity and interculturality. The volume particularly focuses on critical reflexivity in every stage of research, including reflections on theoretical concepts (such as identity and interculturality ) and... This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It inc... |
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783,64 |
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Error Prevention and Well-Being at Work in Western Europe and Russia: Psychological Traditions and New Trends
ISBN: 9789401038560 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe. This book overviews some of the traditions that have grown in West European countries and Russia, with a strong emphasis on contextual approaches. For the very first time, West European readers will have access to a Russian literature in this area. Western and Eastern psychologists are linked by common psychological roots but disciplines evolved in completely different conditions regarding the material possibilities to collect data, diffuse ideas, and finance...
A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe. This book over...
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402,53 |
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Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9783319028446 / Angielski / Twarda / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between Husserl's phenomenology, Kelsen's pure theory of law and the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. This multilayered inquiry connects the value-oriented reflections of a general philosophy of science with the specificity of the methods and theories of the social sciences, as opposed to abstract natural science and psychology....
This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Ka...
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563,56 |
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The Spectrum of Social Time
ISBN: 9789401036252 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American sociologists know Georges Gurvitch as one of the editors of Twentieth Century Sociology and as the author of the Sociology of Law. His fame in France is confirmed by a long list of publications beginning in 1932 with Idee du droit social and Le temps present et 'idee du droit social, followed by Experience juridique et philosophie pluraliste du droit (1936), La morale theorique et la science des maurs (1937, third edition 1961), Essais de sociologie (1938), and after the second World War by La vocation actuelle de la sociologie (1950, third edition in two volumes 1963), Les...
American sociologists know Georges Gurvitch as one of the editors of Twentieth Century Sociology and as the author of the Sociology of Law. His fame i...
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684,33 |
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Gründungsszenen Soziologischer Theorie
ISBN: 9783531198002 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grundungsszenen sind Ankerpunkte soziologischen Theoretisierens: Als konkrete Bezugsprobleme stiften sie im weitesten Sinne des Wortes einen Realitatsbezug, der sich nicht in die Kategorien der methodisch kontrollierten Erhebung empirischer Tatbestande ubersetzen lasst. Sie konnen literarischen, biographischen oder anekdotischen Ursprungs sein und sind dennoch nicht blosses Decorum . Vielmehr verweisen sie auf den Erfahrungs- und Sinnhintergrund jeder theoretischen Abstraktion. Ihre Analyse ermoglicht die Reflektion narrativer Elemente in sozialwissenschaftlichen Texten und verdeutlicht... Grundungsszenen sind Ankerpunkte soziologischen Theoretisierens: Als konkrete Bezugsprobleme stiften sie im weitesten Sinne des Wortes einen Realit... |
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188,08 |
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Organisierter Kinderschutz in Deutschland: Strukturdynamiken Und Modernisierungsparadoxien
ISBN: 9783658033538 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kinderschutz ist seit Langerem ein heisses Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die zahlreichen Medienberichte uber kritische Ereignisse in Familien und das (angebliche) Versagen zustandiger Instanzen erregen regelmassig die Gemuter derer, die sich urteilsfahig fuhlen und dies ist im Zweifel jeder Zeitbeobachter. Eine politische Initiative reiht sich an die andere, und auch in der Fachoffentlichkeit ist Kindeswohlgefahrdung ein Dauerbrenner. Und doch besteht, ungeachtet zahlreicher Abhandlungen, einiges an Aufklarungsbedarf im Hinblick darauf, wie das Kinderschutzsystem funktioniert, welche... Kinderschutz ist seit Langerem ein heisses Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die zahlreichen Medienberichte uber kritische Ereignisse in Familien ... |
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225,72 |
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Ceremony of Innocence: Tears, Power and Protest
ISBN: 9780333539965 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What use are tears? What is their purpose? In this original and disturbing book, Kay Carmichael argues that we underestimate the importance of this powerful means of communication. Tears are dismissed as a symbol of weakness when we should value them as a source of energy and creativity. In vivid case-histories, based on original research, she shows how, why, when and where human beings cry and the barriers placed in their way.
What use are tears? What is their purpose? In this original and disturbing book, Kay Carmichael argues that we underestimate the importance of this po...
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402,53 |
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Research Methods in Africana Studies
ISBN: 9781433124600 / Angielski / Miękka / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science. The relevance, strengths, and weaknesses of every major method...
Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of Afric...
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225,47 |
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Research Methods in Africana Studies
ISBN: 9781433124617 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science. The relevance, strengths, and weaknesses of every major method...
Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of Afric...
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895,79 |
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Observing «And» Analyzing Communication Behavior
ISBN: 9781433124167 / Angielski / Twarda / 485 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about communication behavior: how we conceptualize it, observe it, measure it, and analyze it.
The 1970s and 1980s were times when communication behavior was a primary interest of many communication scholars. The aim of this book is to reignite some interest in and passion about how human communication behavior should be studied. It presents the best advice, techniques, cautions, and controversies from the 1970s and 1980s and then updates them. Several chapters also introduce statistical methods and procedures to allow readers to analyze behavioral data. This book is a... This is a book about communication behavior: how we conceptualize it, observe it, measure it, and analyze it.
The 1970s and 1980s were times when ... |
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690,10 |