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  • Globalization, the State, and Violence

    par Terence Turner, Saskia Sassen, Simone Ghezzi, Enzo Mingione, Michel Wieviorka (EHESS, Paris), Unni Wikan, Donald M. Nonini, Nina Glick Schiller, Georges Fouron, Bruce Kapferer, Steve Reyna, Steven Sampson, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman ...
    Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. In a critical ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Making Social Science Matter

    Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again

    par Bent Flyvbjerg ...
    Traduit par Steven Sampson ...
    Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. Why has social science failed in attempts to emulate natural science and produce normal theory? Bent Flyvbjerg argues that the strength of social sciences lies in its rich, reflexive analysis of values ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Cultures of Doing Good

    Anthropologists and NGOs

    par Steven Sampson, Christian Vannier, Erica Bornstein, Amanda Lashaw, Inderpal Grewal, David Lewis, Katherine Lemons, Victoria Bernal0, Nermeen Mouftah1, Theodora Vetta2, Aviva Sinervo3, Moshe Kornfeld4, Mark Schuller5, Amanda Woomer6, Hana Synková7, Karen Kapusta-Pofahl8 ...
    Collections series NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
    Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Thorough introductory chapters provide a short history of NGO anthropology, address how ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Garden in the Machine

    The Emerging Science of Artificial Life

    par Claus Emmeche ...
    Traduit par Steven Sampson ...
    Collections series Princeton Science Library
    What is life? Is it just the biologically familiar--birds, trees, snails, people--or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate? What role does intelligence play in separating the organic from the inorganic, the living from the inert? Does life evolve along a predestined path, or does it suddenly emerge from what appeared lifeless and programmatic?In this easily ... En savoir plus

    $37.39 CAD

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  • The Most Good You Can Do

    How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

    par Peter Singer ...
    An argument for putting sentiment aside and maximizing the practical impact of our donated dollars: "Powerful, provocative" (Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times).Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective ... En savoir plus

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  • The Generosity Network

    New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising

    par Jennifer McCrea, Jeffrey C. Walker, Karl Weber ...
    The Generosity Network is the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause.Philanthropist Jeff Walker and fund-raising expert Jennifer McCrea offer a fresh new perspective that can make the toughest challenges of nonprofit management and development less stressful, more rewarding—and even fun.Walker and McCrea show how traditional pre-scripted, money ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Showing Up for Life

    Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

    par Mary Ann Mackin, Bill Gates Sr. ...
    A heartfelt, deeply personal book that shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”: lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Through the course of several dozen ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

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  • With Charity for All

    Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give

    par Ken Stern ...
    Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight and prescribes a whole new way for Americans to make a difference.Each year, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks

    Theory, Methods, and Applications

    Modifié par Dean Lusher, Johan Koskinen, Garry Robins ...
    Collections Livre 35 - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of ERGMs, including models for univariate, multivariate, bipartite, longitudinal and social-influence ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Red Bandanna

    A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.

    par Tom Rinaldi ...
    **A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life?**The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courageOne Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

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  • Social Research

    par Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Computational Social Science

    Principles and Applications

    par Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ...
    Collections series Computer Science (R0)
    This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and social simulation modeling. The coverage of these approaches is supported by a discussion of the ... En savoir plus

    $76.89 CAD