Global Value Chains and Development
Global Value Chains and Development
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Global Value Chains and Development
Global Value Chains and Development
Vector and Complex Calculus
Vector and Complex Calculus
Vector and Complex Calculus
Vector and complex calculus are essential for applications to electromagnetism, fluid and solid mechanics, and the differential geometry of surfaces. Moving beyond the limits of standard multivariable calculus courses, this comprehensive textbook ...
AT HOME
AS SEEN ON TV - THE NEW COOKBOOK FROM MONICA GALETTI OF MASTERCHEF: THE PROFESSIONALS The new cookbook from the celebrated chef, presenter and restaurateur! Monica Galetti's career has taken her from her home in Samoa and New Zealand to the profes...
Algebra
From rings to modules to groups to fields, this undergraduate introduction to abstract algebra follows an unconventional path. The text emphasizes a modern perspective on the subject, with gentle mentions of the unifying categorical principles und...
Algebra: Chapter 0
Algebra: Chapter 0 is a self-contained introduction to the main topics of algebra, suitable for a first sequence on the subject at the beginning graduate or upper undergraduate level. The primary distinguishing feature of the book, compared to sta...
Japanese Proverbs
"Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain." - Japanese Proverb This is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanations for each saying. Japanese Proverbs: 200 Gems of Traditional Wit and Wisdom is a...
Brevity
In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its v...
The Scout Mindset
'...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit.'--The Wall Street Journal A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a 'soldier' mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a 'scout' mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts
Scout Mindset
'Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read' Tim Harford Winner of best smart thinking book (Business Book Awards) and a Guardian best books of 2021 When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have wha...
Scout Mindset
Winner of best smart thinking book 2022 (Business Book Awards) Guardian best books of 2021 'Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read' Tim Harford 'Highly recommended. It's not easy to become (more of) a scout, but it's hard not to be inspired...
Advanced Ethics for Addiction Professionals
The aspects of the book related to the philosophy of science and cognitive science (inductive and deductive reasoning, biases, and heuristics) are distilled in reasonable and useful ways. I recommend this book to those addiction professionals who ...
Critical Thinking for Addiction Professionals
Learn to Think Critically and Make Better Decisions Addiction professionals make decisions everyday that impact peoples lives. Sometimes these decisions are solid, and sometimes they are the result of flawed thinking, which often results from myth...
Global Value Chains in a Post-crisis World
The world is in the midst of a sporadic and painful recovery from the most severe economic crisis since the 1930s' Great Depression. The unprecedented scale of the crisis and the speed of its transmission have revealed the interdependence of the g...
Handbook on Global Value Chains
Providing critical insight into the globalization of product conception, production, marketing and distribution, this Handbook comprehensively explores the functioning of global value chains (GVCs) and how they shape the global economy. It provide...
Handbook on Global Value Chains
Providing critical insight into the globalization of product conception, production, marketing and distribution, this Handbook comprehensively explores the functioning of global value chains (GVCs) and how they shape the global economy. It provide...
Question of Animal Culture
Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly deba...
Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R
Linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) are an important class of statistical models that can be used to analyze correlated data. Such data are encountered in a variety of fields including biostatistics, public health, psychometrics, educational measur...
Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R
Linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) are an important class of statistical models that can be used to analyze correlated data. Such data are encountered in a variety of fields including biostatistics, public health, psychometrics, educational measur...
Seed Dispersal and Frugivory
Until recently, the production of fruits by plants, their consumption by animals (frugivory) and the relevance of these to seed dispersal have attracted less attention than topics such as pollination biology. However, since the 1970s they have sta...
Configuration Spaces
This book collects the scientific contributions of a group of leading experts who took part in the INdAM Meeting held in Cortona in September 2014. With combinatorial techniques as the central theme, it focuses on recent developments in configurat...
Linear Mixed Models
Highly recommended by JASA, Technometrics, and other leading statistical journals, the first two editions of this bestseller showed how to easily perform complex linear mixed model (LMM) analyses via a variety of software programs. Linear Mixed Mo...