Science of social influence

Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research

Suitable for students and researchers in political science and sociology, this book begins with the fundamental building blocks of mathematics and bas

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Perfect Meal - The Multisensory Science of Food and Dining

The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diner's experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the diner's senses contributes to their overall multisensory experience. The principal focus of the book is not on flavor perception, but on all of the non-food and beverage factors that have been shown t...

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How to Change: The Science of Self-Improvement (0593332598)

Kniha - autor Katy Milkman, 272 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Set audacious goals. Foster good habits. Create social support. You’ve surely heard this advice before. If you’ve ever tried to change — to boost exercise or healthy eating, to prevent missed deadlines or kick-start savings — then you know there are thousands of apps, books, and YouTube videos pro...

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Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music - Lucie Vítková

The publication deals with Wolff’s compositional techniques and the inner structures of his pieces which influence the relationships between the players.

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Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music - Lucie Vítková

Anotace: The publication deals with Wolff's compositional techniques and the inner structures of his pieces which influence the relationships between the players, particularly, the democratic manner in which these relationships are constructed and their influence on the audience and players in a broader social sense.

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Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music - Lucie Vítková

<p>The publication deals with Wolff’s compositional techniques and the inner structures of his pieces which influence the relationships between the players, particularly, the democratic manner in which these relationships are constructed and their influence on the audience and players in a broader social sense.</p>

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Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection explores their influence on systems of policing and social o

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Non-Academic Careers for Quantitative Social Scientists

Part II creates a guide for social science PhDs on how to set themselves up for such careers, including navigating the academic world of graduate scho

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Animal Welfare Science, Husbandry and Ethics: The Evolving Story of Our Relationship with Farm Animals

The symbiotic relationship of man and non-human animals is the result of a long intertwined history of the evolution of biological, social and cultura

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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How to Change Your Mind : The New Science of Psychedelics, 1. vydání - Michael Pollan

<p>Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? Join Michael Pollan on a journey to the frontiers of the human mind.Diving deep into an extraordinary world - from shamans and magic mushroom hunts to the pioneering labs mapping our brains - and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling p...

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Hivemind: The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World (1409194329)

Kniha - 304 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Sarah Rose Cavanagh, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind. Our views of the world are shaped by the stories told by our sel...

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Toward New Possibilities for Library and Information Science

The 2018 West Virginia teachersÂ’ strike in the USA exemplifies the changing shape of dissent and protest in the digital age. The use of social media

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Afterlife of Empire

Using a wealth of recently declassified files from the National Archives, oral histories, court cases, press reports, social science writings, and pho

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Central City's Joy and Pain

Explores complex social issues through personal narrative. Jerome Morris does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Bi

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Canada's Deep Crown

CanadaÂ’s Deep Crown looks at the role of the Sovereign from the perspective of political science, history, and law to assess its role and influence i

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Thinking Through Statistics

A guide to using statistics properly in social science.

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Good Book, In Theory

This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological

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Tricks of the Trade

This guide to research methods covers four areas of social science: the creation of "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate max

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Gravity and Grace

French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic Simone Weil was little known when she died young in 1943. In 1952 this English translation of her writings accelerated her posthumous fame and influence. Written at the onset of World War II, when her health was deteriorating and her social activism was giving way to spiritual introspection, this is truly the ma...

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Fashion, Culture, and Identity

A consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural ph

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Speculative Communities

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal an

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Technics and Civilization

Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, as

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Process-Tracing Methods

Process-tracing in social science is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make inferen

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Peter Blume

Russian American artist Peter Blume was one of the earliest practitioners of surrealist painting in the United States, and his elaborately detailed and dreamlike compositions helped define American Modernist art. Blume worked out the themes of his ambitious large-scale paintings through dozens of drafts in different media, slowly developing layers of allegory and imagery ...

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Economics of Bioresources

Written by a team of scholars and practitioners from various engineering, natural-science and social-science disciplines, the book is primarily intend

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Maths of Life and Death

"Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book.It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - Ian McEwan "Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he sho...

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Power of Friendship

The Power of Friendship is a practical and accessible handbook that draws on more than thirty years of social science research and insights from moder

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Premise of Fidelity

The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth century Japan uncovers the social and epistemological roles of th

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Body of Knowledge

Adopting an approach based on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book presents a close-up view of social science researchers engaged in

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Body of Knowledge

Adopting an approach based on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book presents a close-up view of social science researchers engaged in

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Shadow of Unfairness

In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democ

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Sociocultural Context of Romantic Relationships

Using truly interdisciplinary social science, this book demonstrates the many ways in which social and cultural forces affect individuals in their rel

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From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude

Draws together international experts from the fields of psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, literature, art, social science, and philosophy. The

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Analysis of Albert Bandura's Aggression

Much of what we now know about the influence of early childhood environments on delinquency and anti-social behavior can be traced to Bandura's ground

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Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bu

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Future of the Liberal Order

This book brings together some of the finest minds of social science to answer the great questions about the future of the liberal order.

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Human Use Of Human Beings

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science o

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Empire of Love

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperia...

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Vauban Fortifications of France

Dunkirk, Toulon, Perpignan, Verdun and Brest stand out among the many historically significant sites created by Sebastien LePrestre de Vauban (1633-1707). Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become syno...

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Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory

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New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the

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Age and the Reach of Sociological Imagination

Combining foundational principles of critical social science with recent breakthroughs in research across disciplines ranging from biology to economic

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Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning

This superb collection of renowned experts in education, social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience presents insights into positive learnin

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Upside Of Irrationality - neuveden

Anotace: Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely returns to offer a much-needed take on the irrational decisions that influence our dating lives, our workplace experiences, and our general behaviour, up close and personal. In The Upside of Irrationality, behavioral economist Dan Ariely will explore the many ways in ...

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Tales of Horror (9781847496096)

Kniha - anglicky A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable chara...

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Fall of Porcupine

Step into the town of Porcupine and take to the well-loved scrubs of Finley, the newest fledgling doctor to join the ranks of St. Ursula's hospital. As the seasons in the small-town change and life starts to stir, you'll soon realize that things aren't always what they seem: Not everyone is honest with themselves and others, the healthcare industry is not as illustrious a...

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Fall of Porcupine (PC)

Step into the town of Porcupine and take to the well-loved scrubs of Finley, the newest fledgling doctor to join the ranks of St. Ursula's hospital. As the seasons in the small-town change and life starts to stir, you'll soon realize that things aren't always what they seem: Not everyone is honest with themselves and others, the healthcare industry is not a...

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Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone

In one of the most frequently cited social science publications of the last half-century, Robert D. Putnam draws heavily on the critical thinking skil

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Scholastic Book of World Records 2019

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The History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Pictures

Based on period documents and photography, the book maps in detail the development of Czech non-university sciences from the 18th century when the Society of Unknown Scholars in the Austrian Lands was founded in Olomouc. The main attention is focused on the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and its most important precursors, whether the Czechoslovak Academy of Sci...

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Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence

This book brings together strands of scholarship from law, economics, and political science to explore two key themes: the influence of economic evide

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The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotelés

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics...Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to g...

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The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotelés

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to...

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Little Book of HP Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft had a short life, and he died of cancer in 1936 at the age of 46. But in that relatively short time he had a significant, varied and outstanding output, and although he was not a well-known writer during the time he lived, he has since been hailed as one of the great supernatural fiction writers. Although a huge influence on many writers since hi...

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Timeless humanism. Conservative conception of a crisis - Vlastimil Podracký

Author, publicist, and political analyst in his philosophical-political analysis stems from the idea that due to human influence the world changed so profoundly that old social theories are no longer valid.

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Through the Eye of a Needle

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. "Through the Eye of a Needle" is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by t...

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Tales of Horror - Edgar Allan Poe

Anotace: A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable characters and...

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Astrology. The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley

<p>Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. From its birth as astronomy’s sister science, to our current Age of Aquarius, the story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images—from Egyptian temples to contemporary art—sequenced to mirror the spin of t...

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Lobbying : The Dark Side of Politics - Grant Wyn

Anotace: Is lobbying, particularly by `lobbyists for hire`, resulting in a distortion of the democratic process? Does business, with its highly sophisticated and well-resourced lobbying operations, have an undue influence on decisions by politicians? The book assess the impact of lobbying on the UK political system, the extent to which it shapes the political decision-m...

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