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  • The Token Economy

    A Review and Evaluation

    Edited by Alan Kazdin ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Applications of operant techniques in treatment and education have proliferated in recent years. Among the various techniques, the token economy has been particu larly popular. The token economy has been extended to many populations included in psychiatry, clinical psychology, education, and the mental health fields in general. Of course, merely because a technique is applied widely does not neces ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III

    Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius ... Read more

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  • Democratic Reason

    Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

    by Hélène Landemore ...
    Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • An Introduction to Decision Theory

    by Martin Peterson ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    Now revised and updated, this introduction to decision theory is both accessible and comprehensive, covering topics including decision making under ignorance and risk, the foundations of utility theory, the debate over subjective and objective probability, Bayesianism, causal decision theory, game theory, and social choice theory. No mathematical skills are assumed, with all concepts and results ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Computation and Modelling in Insurance and Finance

    by Erik Bølviken ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Focusing on what actuaries need in practice, this introductory account provides readers with essential tools for handling complex problems and explains how simulation models can be created, used and re-used (with modifications) in related situations. The book begins by outlining the basic tools of modelling and simulation, including a discussion of the Monte Carlo method and its use. Part II deals ... Read more

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  • Risk Management for Central Banks and Other Public Investors

    Edited by Ulrich Bindseil, Fernando Gonzalez, Evangelos Tabakis ...
    Domestic and foreign financial assets of all central banks and public wealth funds worldwide are estimated to have reached more than 12 trillion US dollars in 2007. How do these institutions manage such unprecedented growth in their financial assets and how have they responded to the 'revolution' of risk management techniques during the last two decades? This book surveys the fundamental issues ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • Knowledge in an Uncertain World

    by Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath ...
    Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification. According to the primary argument of the book, you can rely on what you know in action and belief, because what you know can be a reason you have and you can rely on the reasons you have. If knowledge doesn't allow for a chance of error, then this result is unsurprising. But if ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Interest Rate Modeling: Post-Crisis Challenges and Approaches

    by Zorana Grbac, Wolfgang Runggaldier ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Quantitative Finance
    Filling a gap in the literature caused by the recent financial crisis, this book provides a treatment of the techniques needed to model and evaluate interest rate derivatives according to the new paradigm for fixed income markets. Concerning this new development, there presently exist only research articles and two books, one of them an edited volume, both being written by researchers working ... Read more

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  • Playful Intelligence

    Digitizing Tradition

    by Professor Henry Sussman ...
    This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are ... Read more

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  • Superior Beings

    If They Exist, How Would We Know?

    by BRAMS ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The central question I pose in this book is: If there existed a supe rior being who possessed the supernatural qualities of omni science, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility, how would he/she act differently from us, and would these differences be knowable? (ßecause God, the superior being in the Judeo Christian tradition, is generally described as a male, I shall hence forth use the ... Read more

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  • Animal Communication Theory

    Information and Influence

    Edited by Ulrich E. Stegmann ...
    The explanation of animal communication by means of concepts like information, meaning and reference is one of the central foundational issues in animal behaviour studies. This book explores these issues, revolving around questions such as: what is the nature of information? What theoretical roles does information play in animal communication studies? Is it justified to employ these concepts in ... Read more

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