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Simply Rational - Decision Making In The Real World

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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 This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making in the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics.
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Simple Heuristics In A Social World

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 Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics for myriad resources, including food, mates, and status, and where rivals grant the decision maker little time for deep thought, protracted information search, or complex calculations. Yet,the social world also encompasses domains where social animals such as humans can learn from one another and can forge alliances with one another to boost their chances of success.
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Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture And Cognition

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 This is the second volume of a three volume series on innateness - one of the central questions currently debated in the cognitive and behavioural sciences.
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Deconstructing Hegemony - Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, And Historiography

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 Deconstructing Hegemony is mainly informed by the deconstructionist approach, as it unravels literature, theory, and history writing, in addition to ideology, lexicon, media, and politics. The readings are also informed by, among others, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Abdelwahab Elmessiri, and Noam Chomsky. Deconstruction, or questioning oppositions, as the recurrent approach, pairs with contrapuntalism or counterpoint; epistemology or theory of knowledge;hermeneutics or interpretation; ecocriticism or literature and nature; geopolitics; cartography or map-drawing; demography or population; marginalization or minority studies; as well as normalizing discourse or stigmatizing difference or any deviation from 'set' standards.
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Python Programming - Using Problem Solving Approach

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 Python Programming is designed as a textbook to fulfil the requirements of the first-level course in Python programming. It is suited for undergraduate degree students of computer science engineering, information technology as well as computer applications. The book aims to introduce the students to the fundamentals of computing and the concepts of Python programming language, and enable them to apply these concepts for solving real-worldproblems.
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Human Development Report 2004 - Cultural Liberty In Today'S Diverse World

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 'The Human Development Report' was first produced in 1990 with the single goal of putting people back at the centre of the development process in terms of economic debate, policy, and advocacy.
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A Cry For Justice - Empirical Insights From Balochistan

by Kaiser Bengali

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 A Cry for Justice documents five different aspects of underdevelopment and deprivation in Balochistan: gas pricing, federal development expenditure, federal social protection, federal civil service and structure of electoral representation. It details the facts of systematic economic exploitation, discrimination and neglect that Balochistan has shouldered and continues to face.
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Evil Lords - Theories And Representations Of Tyranny From Antiquity To The Renaissance

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 By focusing on bad kingship, or tyranny, Evil Lords offers innovative insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethics and politics, individual and society, and power and propaganda, as elaborated in a number of different contexts, periods, and genres from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
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Religion In The Oval Office - The Religious Lives Of American Presidents

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 Continuing the work of Faith and the Presidency (OUP 2006), Gary Scott Smith takes on eleven more US presidents and examines the role religion played in their policies, personal lives, and decisions.
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Simply Rational - Decision Making In The Real World

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 This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making in the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics.
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The Shape Of Thought - How Mental Adaptations Evolve

by H. Clark (Professor, Professor, Ucla Department Of Anthropology, Los Angeles) Barrett

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 The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It shows how the brain can be both a complexly specialized organ and a dynamic and flexible self-organizing system, shaped by learning and culture.
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National Intelligence And Science - Beyond The Great Divide In Analysis And Policy

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Love Songs - The Hidden History

by Ted (, Music Historian) Gioia

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 For thousands of years, love songs have pervaded our musical lives. But no one has told their full story until now. Ted Gioia surveys the conflicts and controversies, and traces the surprising path by which the love song has triumphed over all obstacles, emerging as a dominant commercial and cultural force.
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The Shape Of Thought - How Mental Adaptations Evolve

by H. Clark (Professor, Professor, Ucla Department Of Anthropology, Los Angeles) Barrett

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 The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It shows how the brain can be both a complexly specialized organ and a dynamic and flexible self-organizing system, shaped by learning and culture.
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Epidemiologic Methods - Studying The Occurrence Of Illness

by Noel S. (Professor, Department Of Epidemiology, University Of Washington, Seattle, Wa, Usa) Weiss

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Dissemination And Implementation Of Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments

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 The lack of widely available, effective mental health care presents a major public health problem. This volume describes the rapidly expanding area of dissemination and implementation of evidence-based psychological interventions. Leading efforts internationally to improve access to effective care are highlighted by the leaders of these programs.
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Moral Entanglements - The Ancillary-Care Obligations Of Medical Researchers

by Henry S. Richardson

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 Richardson's book is a defense of a position on a neglected topic in medical research ethics. Richardson points out that ethical regulations do not address one of the key dilemmas faced by medical researchers - whether or not they have obligations towards subjects who need care not directly related to the purpose of the study.
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Simple Heuristics In A Social World

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 Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics for myriad resources, including food, mates, and status, and where rivals grant the decision maker little time for deep thought, protracted information search, or complex calculations. Yet,the social world also encompasses domains where social animals such as humans can learn from one another and can forge alliances with one another to boost their chances of success.
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Asian Islam In The 21st Century

by John L. Esposito, John Voll e Osman Bakar

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 Although more than half of the world's Muslims live in Asia, most of the widely read books on contemporary Islam focus on developments in the Middle East, giving short shrift to experiences in some of the largest Muslim countries in the world. The studies collected in this book look at the changes happening both in Muslim majority countries and in societies where Muslims are a minority. Among the contributors are such prominent scholars as Fred von der Mehden, ValiNasr, Hakan Yavuz, and John Voll. This book will serve as the successor to Esposito's influential 1987 collection, Islam in Asia.
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The Art Of Digital Audio Recording - A Practical Guide For Home And Studio

by Steve (Instructor Of Recording Arts, Instructor Of Recording Arts, Los Medanos College) Savage

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 In The Art of Digital Audio Recording, expert author Steve Savage synthesizes years of professional recording experience - including 7 grammy-nominated records - and his teaching experience as instructor in recording techniques to equip professional readers with both the essential technical as well as practical knowledge they need to succeed.
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Sex Appeal - Six Ethical Principles For The 21st Century

by Paul Abramson

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 An epidemic of sexually-transmitted infections and sexual violence is upon us. This text is neither a moralistic screed nor a self-indulgent guide to sexual utopia. Instead, it charts a thoughtful course between extremes to present six ethical principles for sexual health and happiness.
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Rethinking Schumann

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 This collection of essays aims to broaden and update scholarly approaches to Schumann, by considering his works and their reception in the context of various cultural and socio-institutional frameworks, from mid-nineteenth-century politics, through Nazi Germany, to late twentieth-century popular culture.
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Spinal Cord Stimulation - Percutaneous Implantation Techniques

by Paul Kreis e Scott Fishman

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Oxford American Handbook Of Ophthalmology

by Alastair Denniston, James Tsai, John Huang, Philip Murray e Tamir Aldad

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 In a compact package, the Oxford American Handbook of Ophthalmology gives quick, to-the-point guidance on diagnosis and therapy of ophthalmic disorders.
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