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  • Watergate

    The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon

    by Fred Emery ...
    Here is the definitive history of the Watergate scandal—based on the most recently released tapes, in-depth interviews with many of the participants, and hundreds of official and unofficial documents, including notes Haldeman omitted from his own published diaries. Emery's comprehensive coverage and penetrating insights clear up many uncertainties that may still remain about the scandal and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • On Purposeful Systems

    An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events

    Edited by Fred Emery ...
    This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior u as a system of purposeful (teleological) events. It uses a systems theoretical approach for the study of these phenomena, and illustrates and extends general systems theory.Part One develops the concepts of traditional mechanism from which, successively, the concepts of "function," "choice," "goal-seeking," and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Arrogance of Power

    The Secret World of Richard Nixon

    by Anthony Summers ...
    The controversial *New York Times–*bestselling biography of America’s most infamous president written by a master of investigative political reporting.Anthony Summers’s towering biography of Richard Nixon reveals a tormented figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers traces Nixon’s entire career, ... Read more

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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

    Selected Articles

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Sciences of the Artificial, third edition

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Experiential Learning

    Experience as the Source of Learning and Development

    by David Kolb ...
    Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning and its modern applications to education, work, and adult development.Experiential Learning, ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

  • How to Study as a Mathematics Major

    by Lara Alcock ...
    Every year, thousands of students in the USA declare mathematics as their major. Many are extremely intelligent and hardworking. However, even the best will encounter challenges, because upper-level mathematics involves not only independent study and learning from lectures, but also a fundamental shift from calculation to proof. This shift is demanding but it need not be mysterious -- research has ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Causes of Human Behavior

    Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences

    by Lawrence B. Mohr ...
    Acknowledging that though the disciplines are supposed to be cumulative, there is little in the way of accumulated, general theory, this work opens a dialogue about the appropriate means and ends of social research based in analysis of fundamental issues.This book examines two root issues in the methodology of explanatory social research--the meaning of the idea of causation in social science and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

    Edited by Alan H. Schoenfeld ...
    This volume is a result of mathematicians, cognitive scientists, mathematics educators, and classroom teachers combining their efforts to help address issues of importance to classroom instruction in mathematics. In so doing, the contributors provide a general introduction to fundamental ideas in cognitive science, plus an overview of cognitive theory and its direct implications for mathematics ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Math Teachers Know

    Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics

    by Brent Davis, Moshe Renert ...
    What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that precede and enable ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Study of Thinking

    by Jerome Bruner ...
    A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study, it is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our understanding ... Read more

    $67.99 USD