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Misunderstanding the Internet (Communication and Society)

Routledge, 2012

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one quarter of the world’s population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.

However, much popular and...

Introduction to Electrical Power Systems (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Adapted from an updated version of the author's classic Electric Power System Design and Analysis, with new material designed for the undergraduate student and professionals new to Power Engineering. The growing importance of renewable energy sources, control methods and mechanisms, and system restoration has created a need for a concise,...

The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21^st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and...

Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice

Cambridge University Press, 2003

Are there geographic clusters of disease cases, or hotspots of crime? Can the geography of air quality be matched to where people hospitalized for respiratory complaints actually live? Spatial data is data about the world where the attribute of interest and its location on the earth's surface are recorded. This comprehensive overview of the subject...

The Fuzzy Systems Handbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems/Book and Disk

Academic Press, 1994

My 1965 paper on fuzzy sets was motivated in large measure by the conviction that traditional methods of systems analysis are unsuited for dealing with systems in which relations between variables do not lend themselves to representation in terms of differential or difference equations. Such systems are the norm in biology, sociology, economics...

Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (Hobart Papers)

Coronet Books Inc, 1997

One of main features of the 'counter-revolution' in economics which has resulted in the revival of classical liberal ideas has been a change in views about government's ability to control the economy. 'Fiscal fine tuning' is virtually discredited and monetary policy is no longer seen as a means of...

Routledge Dictionary of Economics (1st ed)

Routledge, 1995

Compiled to meet the needs of students and professionals in economics, finance, accountancy and business, this wide-ranging, international Dictionary is for everyone who wants an up-to-date resource to the world of economics.

Key Features

over 4200 comprehensive A to Z entries, from after-hours to z-score,...

Global Issues: An Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Now reorganized and updated throughout, the fifth edition of this well-regarded introductory global issues text continues to reflect the most important aspects of an increasingly globalized world.

Reorganized into more accessible chapters better suited to semester-long courses, with new sections covering development,...

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

Penguin Press, 2019

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.

Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago...

Negotiation Games (Routledge Advances in Game Theory, 002.)

Routledge, 2003

If you are looking for a wide ranging application of game theory, with many applications to political science, then you will find that this book is well worth the read. - Managerial and Decision Economics

Steven J. Brams is one of the leading game theorists of his generation. This new edition includes...

Forecasting With The Theta Method: Theory and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

The first book to be published on the Theta method, outlining under what conditions the method outperforms other forecasting methods

This book is the first to detail the Theta method of forecasting – one of the most difficult-to-beat forecasting benchmarks, which topped the biggest forecasting...

Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

MIT Press, 2006

Winner of the Business, Management & Accounting category in the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.

Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past...

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