This report was produced by the National Research Council in response to a request by the USAID Office of Democracy of Governance for help in developing methods for measuring the effectiveness of its
Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical realism, but with several impor
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Help students navigate nonfiction and develop reading, writing, and critical- thinking skills with ten instant fill-in booklets about holidays. Booklets features lively text, charts, diagrams, thought
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Expertly edited by two pioneers in this burgeoning field, this book covers both basic principles and specific applications across a range of problems in brain research. It truly integrates neuroscienc
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Learn Data Mining by doing data mining Data mining can be revolutionary-but only when it's done right. The powerful black box data mining software now available can produce disastrously misleading res
The university system, both in America and abroad, has always claimed a universal significance for its research and educational models. At the same time, many universities, particularly in Europe, hav
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This is a paperbound edition of a 2002 book about which Book News wrote: Including six previously published articles, this volume collects ten articles by independent philosophy scholar Tara Chatterje
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