Methodology category: 1297 books
John Maynard Keynes - textos esenciales
Un libro esencial para comprender el presente mundial.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 11, 2018
Un libro esencial para comprender el presente mundial.
We Do Things Differently
The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Our systems are failing. Old models—for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply—are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads towards 10 billion, it's clear we need new approaches. In We Do Things Differently, historian and futurologist...
The Limits of Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
The Significance of Gödel's Incompleteness Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these...
by Thomas J. Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
History of twentieth-century philosophy of science opens with an introduction to contemporary philosophy of science as of the beginning of the twenty-first century, and describes the new specialty of computational philosophy of science. Seven chapters describing the philosophies of several major philosophers...
by Casper Rigsby
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This book aims to give logically consistent reasoning for the dismissal of the idea of intelligent design through philosophical discourse based on given evidence of how our universe works. In these minutes, I will address the logical fallacies I see in any intelligent design model that poses the notion...
E-Research
Transformation in Scholarly Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, Alexander W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It presents models for continuous and categorical...
Concise Biostatistical Principles & Concepts
Guidelines for Clinical and Biomedical Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Biostatistics deals with making sense of data. While statistical inference is essential in our application of the research findings to clinical decision-making regarding the care of our patients, statistical inference without clinical relevance or importance can be very misleading and even meaningless....
Applying Social Statistics
An Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
While Applying Social Statistics is 'about' social statistics and includes all of the topics generally covered in similar texts, it is first and foremost a book about how sociologists use statistics. Its emphasis is on statistical reasoning in sociology and on showing how these principles can be applied...
Politics as Rational Action
Essays in Public Choice and Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the most promising trends in modem political science is the develop ment of a theory of politics as rational action. Focussing on choice as the central topic of study, rational choice theorists set out to specify what alter native an actor should prefer if he has some given knowledge of...
An Institutional Basis for Environmental Stewardship
The Structure and Quality of Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy? The answer to this question used to be relatively clear. Government was to regulate the environmental performance of state and non-state actors, to set standards, impose charges, and establish more or less stringent criteria of acceptable...
by Eric H Mielants
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
In this study, Eric Mielants provides a novel interdisciplinary interpretation of the origins of modernity and capitalism in particular. He argues that contrary to popular thinking, the Rise of the West should not be analyzed in terms of the Industrial Revolution or the colonization of the New World,...