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David l. Applegate ; Robert e. Bixby ; Vasek Chvatal ; William j. Cook | Princeton : Princeton University Press | Princeton series in applied mathematics | 2006
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-12993-8 Article on page: IX, 581 Class number: 519.6 Languages: English Thesis
The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This book fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in[...]
Article on page: 1 vol. (XVI, 321 p.) Descriptors: Tags: Ideology ; Political psychology Languages: English Books
This second edition represents a wholesale revamping. In the thirty chapters of this volume incorporate many substantial thematic changes and new lines of research, more focus on international and global concerns, chapters on institutional analy[...]
Edition statement: 2nd ed ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-12126-0 Article on page: IX, 736 p. Tags: Economy Languages: English Books
In this book, the author provide an introduction to the field, one that emphasizes a qualitative understanding of the subject, rather than an intensely mathematical one. The book covers topics, such as crystalline solids and defects, that are us[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-07097-1 Article on page: XVIII, 180 p. Languages: English Books
This text investigates the commercialization of higher education and argues that this can only succeed in the short-term, while those universities that uphold academic values will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students.
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-12012-6 Article on page: XI, 233 Class number: 338.433 78 Tags: Universities--United States ; Education, Higher Languages: English Books
In 1994, two US Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two US Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq. In response the full array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course, but no culprit emer[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-09518-9 Article on page: XVII, 257 p. Class number: 355.422 Tags: United States. Air Force--Management--Case studies ; Organizational behavior ; Leadership--Case studies ; Aerial reconnaissance, American--Iraq ; Black Hawk (Military transport helicopter)--Accidents--Investigation ; Friendly fire (Military science)--Iraq Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-11787-4 Article on page: XVI, 335 p. Class number: 338.98 Tags: Capital market Languages: English Books
The book is primarily an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its primary application in a rotation operator. But Kuipers also presents the more conventional and familiar 3 x 3 (9-element) matrix rotation operator. These parallel present[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-10298-6 Article on page: XXII, 371 Class number: 512.9 Tags: Quaternions (E) Languages: English Books
Daniel p. Carpenter | Princeton : Princeton University Press | Princton studies in American politics. Historical, international and comparative perspectives | 2001Until now political scientists have devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and the relationship between bureaucratic and interest group politics. In this pioneering book, Daniel Carpenter contributes to our understanding[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-07010-0 Article on page: XVI, 479 Tags: Ministries--United States ; Bureaucracy--United States Languages: English Books
Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish e[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-06998-2 Article on page: 1 vol. (220 p.) Class number: 174 Tags: Economics--Psychological aspects ; Well-being ; Happiness--Economic aspects Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-11631-0 Article on page: 275 p. Class number: 658 Tags: Management (E) ; Economics Languages: English Books
Normal Accidents" analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures in[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-00412-9 Article on page: X, 451 p. Class number: 363.1 Tags: Industrial accidents ; Risk management ; Technology--Risk assessment Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-00711-3 Article on page: 264 Descriptors: Class number: 320.15 Tags: Sovereignty Languages: English Books
Robert h. Bates ; Avner Greif ; Margaret Levi ; Jean-laurent Rosenthal ; Barry r. Weingast | Princeton : Princeton University Press | 1998
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-00129-6 Tags: International relations ; Economic history Languages: English Books
The study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive text that incorporates the huge strides made in the subject over the past decade. Deve[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-691-01706-8 Article on page: 1 vol. (xvii, 848 p.) Descriptors: Class number: 330.34 Tags: Development economics Languages: English