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The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical diagnosis, risk perception, and methods for corr...

Probability theory is nowadays applied in a huge variety of fields including physics, engineering, biology, economics and the social sciences. This book is a modern, lively and rigorous account which has Doob's theory of martingales in discrete time as its main theme. It proves important results such as Kolmogorov's Strong Law of Large Numbers and the Three-Series Theorem by martingale techniques, and the Central Limit Theorem via the use of c...

This second edition of a text for a course on calculus of functions of several variables begins with basics of matrices and vectors and a chapter recalling the important points of the theory in one dimension. It then introduces partial derivatives via functions of two variables and then extends the discussion to more than two variables. This pattern is repeated throughout the book, with two variables being used as a springboard for the more ge...

New edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks' prize-winning survey of women and gender in early modern Europe.

A practical guide, providing literature students with the reading and writing skills needed to make the most of their degree. Combines information about literary history and theory with realistic advice on how to study in the most effective way.

This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition of brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. All of the topics are explained clearly using devices such as tableau proofs, and their relation to current philosophical issues are explained.

Gregory's Classical Mechanics is a major new textbook for undergraduates. It is a thorough, self-contained and highly readable account of a subject many students find difficult. The author's clear and systematic style promotes a good understanding of the subject: each concept is motivated and illustrated by worked examples, while problem sets provide plenty of practice for understanding and technique. The book is structured to make learning th...

Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to social science, 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 science is in its rich, reflexive analysis of values and power, essential to the social and economic development of any s...

The second edition of this successful textbook continues to provide a clear introduction to formal reasoning relevant to the needs of modern computer science and sufficiently exacting for practical applications. Improvements have been made throughout with many new and expanded text sections. The coverage of model-checking has been substantially updated and additional exercises are included. Internet support includes worked solutions for teache...

Der Tod eines Lieblingstieres ist oft schmerzhaft, manchmal herzzerreißend. Doch was wie ein Märchen klingt, ist schlicht Tatsache: Das Tier bleibt auch nach seinem Tod eng mit uns verbunden, wie die renommierte Seelenforscherin Sylvia Browne eindrucksvoll belegt. In Hunderten von geprüften Ereignissen - das Ergebnis 40-jähriger Forschung - dokumentiert die New-York-Times-Bestseller-Autorin, wie die Tierseele weiterlebt, wie ihre Gegenwart uns...