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Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures like Bill Cosby have...
Gaining Access
A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Gaining access is a critical part of doing research, not only because one must 'get in' in order to gain information, but also because the quality of access affects what information is available to the researcher. Despite its importance, the literature on qualitative methods has not yet provided an...
Five Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations and Individuals
Effective Strategies Informed by Research and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Five Steps to Strengthen Ethics in Organizations and Individuals draws on research and history to present effective tools to strengthen organizational ethics. Focusing on key topics such as the planning fallacy, moral disengagement, moral courage, the illusion of ethical superiority, confirmation...
Freedom and Growth
The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom and of the state has loomed large. This book examines whether different kinds of 'freedoms' (absolutist, parliamentary and republican) caused different economic outcomes, and shows the effect of different political regimes on long term development. It thus offers
by Samprit Chatterjee, Ali S. Hadi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Praise for the Fourth Edition:
"This book is . . . an excellent source of examples for regression analysis. It has been and still is readily readable and understandable."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association Regression analysis is a conceptually simple method...
by G. S. Maddala
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 1986
This book presents the econometric analysis of single-equation and simultaneous-equation models in which the jointly dependent variables can be continuous, categorical, or truncated. Despite the traditional emphasis on continuous variables in econometrics, many of the economic variables encountered...
Modern Industrial Statistics
with applications in R, MINITAB and JMP
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Fully revised and updated, this book combines a theoretical background with examples and references to R, MINITAB and JMP, enabling practitioners to find state-of-the-art material on both foundation and implementation tools to support their work. Topics addressed include computer-intensive data analysis,...
Exercises in Analysis
Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
Exercises in Analysis will be published in two volumes. This first volume covers problems in five core topics of mathematical analysis: metric spaces; topological spaces; measure, integration and Martingales; measure and topology and functional analysis. Each of five topics correspond to a different...
by B. S. Everitt, A. Skrondal
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
If you work with data and need easy access to clear, reliable definitions and explanations of modern statistical and statistics-related concepts, then look no further than this dictionary. Nearly 4000 terms are defined, covering medical, survey, theoretical, and applied statistics, including computational...
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change
Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies....
Regulation of Securities, Markets, and Transactions
A Guide to the New Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
The ultimate guide to the current rules and regulations that govern the securities industry?including amendments in 2010
Providing readers with expert coverage of domestic securities regulation, this book fills the need for coverage of securities regulations, defining, describing, and explaining...
by S.D. Chamola
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Arthashastra, have been analysed to provide guidancefor organizational management. The findings concludethat Kautilya takes an inside-out approach tomanagement, which is self management first beforemanagement of every other thing, unlike the westernoutside-in approach to management, which focuses inexploring the external world of matter and energy.
by S. Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
This study , as its title indicates, deals with cross- border trade of north -Est India. For sake of convenience, clarity and depth, it has been divided into four parts:(i)General, (ii) Retrospect, (iii) Prospect, and (iv) Resume and Recommendations.
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...