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  • Money-Pump Arguments

    by Johan E. Gustafsson ...
    Series series Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy
    Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory by being cyclic. Money-pump arguments offer a way to show that such violations are irrational. Suppose that you start with A. Then you should be willing to trade A for C and then C for B. But then, once you have B, you are offered a trade back to A for a small cost. Since you prefer A to B, you pay ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science

    by Stephen Van Evera ...
    Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Artificial Societies

    The Computer Simulation Of Social Life

    Edited by Nigel Gilbert, Rosaria Conte ...
    An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by "Simulating societies".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science subjects such as sociology, political science, geography, archaeology/anthropology, and significant appeal within computer ... Read more

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  • Social Science Methodology

    A Unified Framework

    by John Gerring ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology. This new edition has been extensively developed with the introduction of new material and a thorough treatment of essential elements ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Revolutionary Mathematics

    Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism

    by Justin Joque ...
    Traces the revolution in statistics that gave rise to artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism.Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary capitalism. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences

    A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis

    by Carsten Q. Schneider, Claudius Wagemann ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set relations, and using set-theoretic methods to investigate these statements is therefore highly ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets

    Social Network Analysis for Actor-Centred Networks

    by Elisa Bellotti, Nick Crossley, Gemma Edwards, Mark Tranmer, Martin G. Everett, Johan Henrik Koskinen ...
    The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research, from conception, through research design and data gathering to analysis.It starts with the basics, assuming no prior knowledge of ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Complexity and Postmodernism

    Understanding Complex Systems

    by Paul Cilliers ...
    In Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique approach to understanding complexity and computational theory by integrating postmodern theory (like that of Derrida and Lyotard) into his discussion. Complexity and Postmodernism is an exciting and an original book that ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Teaching and Learning of Calculus

    by David Bressoud, Imène Ghedamsi, Victor Martinez-Luaces, Günter Törner ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the learning and teaching process. As a complement to the main text, an extended bibliography with some of the most important references on this topic is ... Read more

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  • Social Network Analysis

    History, Theory and Methodology

    by Christina Prell ...
    We live in a world that is paradoxically both small and vast; each of us is embedded in local communities and yet we are only a few ′links′ away from anyone else in the world.This engaging book represents these interdependencies′ positive and negative consequences, their multiple effects and the ways in which a local occurrence in one part of the world can directly affect the rest. Then it ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

  • Problem Spaces

    How and Why Methodology Matters

    by Celia Lury ...
    In this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world not only with new methods, but with a new approach to methodology itself. Fundamental changes are taking place in how we produce knowledge, how we communicate it and, indeed, what we consider to be knowledge. These changes demand innovative and creative responses to research questions.Lury's rethinking of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science

    Edited by Lee McIntyre, Alex Rosenberg ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD