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“nicholas tyack”

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  • Managing Risk in Agriculture

    A Development Perspective

    by Tahirou Abdoulaye, Rachidi Aboudou, Aminou Arouna, Victor Barrera, Toritseju Begho, Marrit van den Berg, Pratap S. Birthal, Martina Bozzola, Selina Bruns, Jean-Paul Chavas, Simone Cerroni, Juan Dominguez, Marcella D’Souza, Ali Essossinam, Hongli Feng, Ricardo Fort, J Brian Hardaker, Jaweriah Hazrana, David A. Hennessy, Maman H. Karmana, Aditya R. Khanal, Seo Woo Lee, Sergio H. Lence, Lu Liu, Fulco Ludwig, Abel-Gautier Kouakou, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink, Wanglin Ma, Hui Mao, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Digvijay S. Negi, Kehinde Odeniyi, Asis Kumar Senapati, Ariel Singerman, Arjuna Srinidhi, Ruggiero Rippo, Nicholas Tyack, Puneet Vatsa, Alexis H. Villacis, H. Holly Wang, Saskia E. Werners, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Eliana Wulandari, Xiaoheng Zhang, Hongyun Zheng ...
    The book addresses and documents farmers' risks in developing and emerging economies. It draws lessons from experimental economics on measuring risk preferences, attitudes, gender differences in managing risks, and risk management strategies in countries across Africa and Asia. It argues policy makers, especially in emerging economies, need a better understanding of farmers' attitudes toward risk ... Read more

    $117.19 USD

  • England's Long Reformation

    1500 - 1800

    Edited by Nicholas Tyacke ...
    England's Long Reformation" brings together a distinguished team of scholars, who seek to advance beyond current debates concerning the English Reformation. It puts the religious changes of the 16th century in longer perspective than has been traditional and counters the recent emphasis on the popularity of pre-Reformation Catholicism. Instead the case is argued for an underlying trajectory of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    by FAOoftheUN ...
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  • Cromwell to Cromwell

    Reformation to Civil War

    by John Schofield ...
    The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a matter of conscience the will of the king should prevail. Yet just over 100 years later, ... Read more

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  • Commodity Modeling and Pricing

    Methods for Analyzing Resource Market Behavior

    by Peter V. Schaeffer ...
    Series Book 514 - Wiley Finance
    Commodity Modeling and Pricing provides extensions and applications of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing resource commodity behavior. Drawing from the seminal work of Professor Walter Labys on the development of econometric methods for forecasting commodity prices, this collection of essays features expert contributors ranging from practitioners in private industry, public sector, and ... Read more

    $80.00 USD

  • Anglicanism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Chapman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state church due to increasing pluralisation and secularisation. While there are distinctive themes and emphases which emerge ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Climate Smart Agriculture

    Building Resilience to Climate Change

    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of ... Read more

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  • Heretics and Believers

    A History of the English Reformation

    by Peter Marshall ...
    A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English ReformationCenturies on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • Public Policy in an Uncertain World

    Analysis and Decisions

    by Charles F. Manski ...
    Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski critiques the status quo and offers an innovation to improve both how policy research is conducted and how it is used by policy makers. ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Anglican Theology

    by Mark Chapman ...
    Series series Doing Theology
    This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which engages deeply with key texts and writers from across the tradition (e.g. Cranmer, Jewel, Hooker, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Bhopal Tragedy

    Language, Logic, And Politics In The Production Of A Hazard

    by William Bogard ...
    This book offers a critical theory of hazards, which the Bhopal tragedy would serve to highlight. It provides a general model of how hazards existed in Bhopal come to be defined and symbolically manipulated—through the institutionalized use of expert knowledge and political persuasion. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD