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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology

    by Daniel Weiskopf, Fred Adams ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    Psychology aims to give us a scientific account of how the mind works. But what does it mean to have a science of the mental, and what sort of picture of the mind emerges from our best psychological theories? This book addresses these philosophical puzzles in a way that is accessible to readers with little or no background in psychology or neuroscience. Using clear and detailed case studies and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Real-Time Volume Graphics

    by Klaus Engel, Markus Hadwiger, Joe Kniss, Christof Rezk-Salama, Daniel Weiskopf ...
    Based on course notes of SIGGRAPH course teaching techniques for real-time rendering of volumetric data and effects; covers both applications in scientific visualization and real-time rendering. Starts with the basics (texture-based ray casting) and then improves and expands the algorithms incrementally. Book includes source code, algorithms, diagr ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Anti-Drug Policies in Colombia

    Successes, Failures, and Wrong Turns

    Edited by Alejandro Gaviria, Daniel Mejia ...
    Series series Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies Series
    Forty years after the declaration of the "war on drugs" by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot. Several former Latin American presidents and leading intellectuals from around the world have drawn attention to the ineffectiveness and adverse consequences of prohibitionism. This book thoroughly analyzes the drug policies of one of the main protagonists in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Eye Tracking and Visualization

    Foundations, Techniques, and Applications. ETVIS 2015

    Edited by Michael Burch, Lewis Chuang, Brian Fisher, Albrecht Schmidt, Daniel Weiskopf ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book discusses research, methods, and recent developments in the interdisciplinary field that spans research in visualization, eye tracking, human-computer interaction, and psychology. It presents extended versions of papers from the First Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS), which was organized as a workshop of the IEEE VIS Conference 2015. Topics include visualization and ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy

    by Peter Watt, Roberto Zepeda ...
    Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Drug War Capitalism

    by Dawn Paley ...
    Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"—despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new ... Read more

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  • Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U. S. National Security

    by Paul Rexton Kan ...
    Now in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people, and gangs combat gangs. The war has killed more than 60,000 people since President Felipe Calder?n began cracking down on the ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Making Peace in Drug Wars

    Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America

    by Benjamin Lessing ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state's monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back - with bullets and bribes - driving spirals of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Politics of Drug Violence

    Criminals, Cops and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico

    by Angelica Duran-Martinez ...
    Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the ... Read more

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  • Between the Guerrillas and the State

    The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon

    by María Clemencia Ramírez ...
    Translated by Andy Klatt ...
    Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers. More than 200,000 campesinos marched that summer to protest the heightened threat to their ... Read more

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  • Macro-Criminalidad: Complejidad Y Resiliencia De Las Redes Criminales

    Caída Del Gobierno Fujimori En Perú Y Auge De “Los Zetas” En México

    by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran, Luis J. Garay-Salamanca ...
    Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States is cutting edge research. Garay Salamanca and Salcedo-Albarn, along with their contributing authors help document the transition from economic to political imperatives within transnational drug cartels. The break from the Zetas by La Familia Michoacana is one example contained in their empirical survey. Social Network Analysis is their tool for illuminating ... Read more

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