Learn IT - Books tags sociology

You and Your Money: A No-Stress Guide to Becoming Financially Fit

FT Press, 2007

“With over 70% of American workers living paycheck to paycheck, basic money management skills are needed desperately. This is a masterful work that guides us to discover our own money dysfunctions and takes us on a journey to healthy financial behaviors.”

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Virtual Community Building and the Information Society: Current and Future Directions

IGI Global, 2011

Emergent technologies, including ambient intelligence and pervasive computing, promise a considerable advance in the way people use virtual communities, and new, innovative applications are making virtual communities more dynamic and usable than ever.

Virtual Community Building and the Information Society: Current and Future...

Kernel Smoothing: Principles, Methods and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

Comprehensive theoretical overview of kernel smoothing methods with motivating examples

Kernel smoothing is a flexible nonparametric curve estimation method that is applicable when parametric descriptions of the data are not sufficiently adequate. This book explores theory and methods of kernel smoothing in a variety of...

History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Rutgers University Press, 2006

In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing...

Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Routledge, 2014

Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash, punk culture, and the intersections between pop music and politics, on both sides of the Atlantic. Contributors to the collection represent a...

Communicating Science: Professional, Popular, Literary

Cambridge University Press, 2009

In recent years governments and scientific establishments have been encouraging the development of professional and popular science communication. This book critically examines the origin of this drive to improve communication, and discusses why simply improving scientists' communication skills and understanding of their audiences may not...

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,...

Restoring the Innovative Edge: Driving the Evolution of Science and Technology (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy)

Stanford University Press, 2011

Considerable evidence indicates that the U.S. is falling behind when it comes to innovation. In part, this shift stems from the globalization of research and the advancement of other nations. But, it also arises from a widespread failure to adapt to the competitive environment generated by the evolution of science and technology.
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Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)

Routledge, 2011

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular...

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates the studies of three 'inner circle' members of the Bloomsbury group and three 'satellite' figures into a rich narrative of early twentieth-century culture. Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn. On the one hand, they doubted the...

Future Families: Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities

NCC Blackwell, 2013

Future Families explores the variety of family forms which characterize our contemporary culture, while addressing the implications of these increasingly diverse family units on child development.

Reveals the diversity of new family forms based on the most current research on fathers, same-gender parents, new...

Principles of Econometrics

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Principles of Econometrics, 4th edition, is an introductory book for undergraduate students in economics and finance, as well as for first-year graduate students in economics, finance, accounting, agricultural economics, marketing, public policy, sociology, law, and political science. It is assumed that students have taken courses in...

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