Science in the Looking Glass - What Do Scientists Really Know? - Bok av E. Brian (Department of Mathematics Davies - Häftad

How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Experience shows that disentangling scientific knowledge from opinion is harder than one might expect. Full of illuminating examples and quotations, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.

Financial Crises and What to Do About Them - Bok av Barry ( Eichengreen - Häftad

This work explains the patterns behind financial crises, examines international financial architecture, makes recommendations for avoiding the dangers of crises (and managing them better when they do occur), and shows how official efforts to strengthen the international financial system may have made life more difficult for the poorest countries.

Think, Play, Do - Technology, Innovation, and Organization - Bok av Mark (Director Dodgson - Häftad

Without innovation, companies die. Managing the innovation process well is important for companies and for nations as a whole. This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with implications for managers and public policy-makers. It outlines a scheme for the innovation process: Think, Play, Do.

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation - Bok av Tom (Lecturer in Research Methods Clark - Häftad

For final-year social science undergraduates, 'How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation' is the most student-led guide to confidently navigate the research process. It shares real student and supervisor experiences to help motivate you; provides advice for efficient time management; and tracks your progress through focused checklists.

Knowing What To Do - Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics - Bok av Sophie Grace (The Open University Chappell - Häftad

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is 'By developing our moral imaginations'.

What Do Dreams Do? - Bok av Sue (Professor in Humanities Llewellyn - Inbunden

Dreams are a puzzle. We don't know what to make of them. This book explores the evolutionary significance of dreaming, its role in memory, unconscious prediction, creativity and psychiatric illness. It will be compelling reading for anyone interested in psychology, psychiatry, consciousness, and the arts.

Political Choice in Britain - Bok av Harold D. ( Clarke - Häftad

Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections and democracy? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the explanatory power of rival sociological and 'individual rationality' models.

The Game Designer's Playbook - An Introduction to Game Interaction Design - Bok av Samantha (Game Artist Stahlke - Inbunden

This book is about game interaction design-in other words, shaping what players can do and how they do it to make a game satisfying and memorable.

The Multilingual Instructor - What foreign language teachers say about their experience and why it matters - Bok av Claire Kramsch - Häftad

Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang use an ecological approach and a complexity thought model to examine the identities, experiences, and practices of foreign language teachers as native or non-native speakers, multilingual instructors, and professional educators. What is their sense of legitimacy? How do they bridge the historical and cultural gaps between them and their students? What stories do they share in the classroom? Which do they not share? How do they viewtheir ethical responsibility?

Principled Agents? - The Political Economy of Good Government - Bok av Timothy (Professor of Economics and Political Science Besley - Häftad

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and many more are addressed in Timothy Besley's intriguing Lindahl lectures.

Theories of Performance - Organizational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain - Bok av Colin (Professor of Public Policy and Management Talbot

How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us - like taxes - into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other words: how well do they perform? In this book, Colin Talbot examines how we can understand this issue of performance in the public services.

Conversations on Ethics - Bok av Alex (London School of Economics) Voorhoeve - Inbunden

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? Eleven outstanding contemporary thinkers discuss these and other fascinating moral questions in accessible informal conversations.

Political Theory - Methods and Approaches - Bok - Häftad

Lively introduction to the many interesting ways to do political theory in the 21st century.

Sound Change and the History of English - Bok av Jeremy ( Smith - Häftad

Jeremy Smith looks at the origins of a series of sound changes in English and examines their linguistic properties and the social and cultural context in which they took place in order to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do.

The Economics of the European Patent System - IP Policy for Innovation and Competition - Bok av Dominique ( Guellec - Häftad

Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? These questions and many more are addressed by two eminent scholars in this groundbreaking analysis of the economic foundations of the European patent system.

Do You Remember House? : Queer of Color Undergrounds in Post-Soul Chicago (Paperback)

A History of Psycholinguistics - The Pre-Chomskyan Era - Bok av Willem (Director Emeritus Levelt - Häftad

How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? This book provides a fascinating personal history of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created the discipline we call psycholinguistics.

The Institutions of the Market - Organizations, Social Systems, and Governance - Bok - Häftad

Where do markets come from and what drives their evolution? How do organizations cope with the competitive dynamism of markets? What is the role of governance mechanisms in the institutional coordination of markets? In this book, leading social scientists consider these questions and examine the institutional foundations of economic change.

Agency and Cognitive Development - Bok av Michael (James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology Tomasello - Inbunden

This book argues that children cannot simply learn anything at any age, because their capacities to experience and cognitively represent the world are structured by humans' psychological architecture for agentive decision making and action. Changes in these architectures help to explain why children learn what they do when they do.

Building the Flexible Firm - How to Remain Competitive - Bok av Henk W. (Professor of Strategic Management Volberda - Häftad

How do managers reconcile the conflicting forces of change and stability? How do they promote order and control, while having to learn to innovate and respond? This book shows how, for many firms, flexibility has become a strategic challenge. It develops a strategic framework which helps managers to organize for flexibility.

Contrastive Reasons - Bok av Justin (University of St Andrews) Snedegar - Inbunden

Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do one thing rather than another, instead of simply being reasons to do something, full stop.

The Artful Species - Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution - Bok av Stephen (University of Auckland Davies - Inbunden

Stephen Davies presents a fascinating exploration of the idea that art, and our aesthetic sensibilities more generally, should be understood as an element in human evolution. He asks: Do animals have aesthetics? Do our aesthetic preferences have prehistoric roots? Is art universal? What is the biological role of aesthetic and artistic behaviour?

God and Grace of Body - Sacrament in Ordinary - Bok av David (Van Mildert Professor of Divinity Brown - Inbunden

An exploration of the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. David Brown writes excitingly about the potential of dance and music - including pop, jazz, and opera - to enhance spirituality and widen theological horizons.

God and Grace of Body - Sacrament in Ordinary - Bok av David (Van Mildert Professor of Divinity Brown - Häftad

An exploration of the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. David Brown writes excitingly about the potential of dance and music - including pop, jazz, and opera - to enhance spirituality and widen theological horizons.

The Artful Species - Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution - Bok av Stephen (University of Auckland Davies - Häftad

Stephen Davies presents a fascinating exploration of the idea that art, and our aesthetic sensibilities more generally, should be understood as an element in human evolution. He asks: Do animals have aesthetics? Do our aesthetic preferences have prehistoric roots? Is art universal? What is the biological role of aesthetic and artistic behaviour?