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  • Social Behaviour in Animals

    With Special Reference to Vertebrates

    by J. Tinbergen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    HIS book is not intended as an exhaustive review T of facts. Its aim is rather the presentation of a bio logical approach to the phenomena of social behaviour. This type of approach was revived by Lorenz's pioneer studies. It is characterized by emphasis on the need for renewed and careful observation of the huge variety of social phenomena occurring in nature; by emphasis on a balanced study of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Econometrics

    by Jan Tinbergen ...
    Originally published in 1951, this volume reprints the classic work written by one of the leading global econometricians. Econometrics is structured as followed: Part 1 explains the relationship of Econometrics to Economics and Statistics. Part 2 outlines the process of formulating economic hypotheses mathematically and of subjecting them to a statistical test. Part 3 deals with the various ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Social Behaviour in Animals

    With Special Reference to Vertebrates

    by N. Tinbergen ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author’s own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and birds, as well as on the literature. The concept ‘community’ is taken in its widest sense to include all types of association of individuals, not only flocks and herds, but also the family, the pair, and even two animals engaged in combat.The author ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Curious Naturalists

    by Dr. Niko Tinbergen ...
    Dr. Niko Tinbergen was well known as a naturalist and a student of animal behaviour in England, on the Continent and in the United States. Ever since he was a young student in Holland he had been curious about nature, and in this book he sets out some of the facts that 25 years of curiosity gave him.As a biologist, anything living was his province—the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Study of Instinct

    by Nikolaas Tinbergen ...
    First published in 1951, The Study of Instinct is widely considered the foundational text of ethology, the study of natural behavior. Written to introduce the largely German literature of the early ethologists to an English-speaking audience, Tinbergen first describes the objectives, scope, and limitations of ethology, then goes on to describe the influence of external stimuli and internal factors ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Filtering and Control of Macroeconomic Systems

    A Control System Incorporating the Kalman Filter for the Indian Economy

    by M.J.M. Rao ...
    Advances in computer technology, coupled with the sophistication of econometric modelling, have enabled rapid progress in the formulation and solution of optimal control and filtering programmes, especially in the sphere of macroeconomic policy designing.These developments in systems methodology have prompted the need for an interface between optimal control theory and dynamic macroeconomic ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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  • Financial Valuation And Econometrics (2nd Edition)

    by Kian Guan Lim ...
    This book is an introduction to financial valuation and financial data analyses using econometric methods. It is intended for advanced finance undergraduates and graduates. Most chapters in the book would contain one or more finance application examples where finance concepts, and sometimes theory, are taught.This book is a modest attempt to bring together several important domains in financial ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance

    by Paul Wilmott ...
    Getting agreement between finance theory and finance practice is important like never before. In the last decade the derivatives business has grown to a staggering size, such that the outstanding notional of all contracts is now many multiples of the underlying world economy. No longer are derivatives for helping people control and manage their financial risks from other business and industries, ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • What a Fish Knows

    The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

    by Jonathan Balcombe ...
    The New York Times–bestselling "exploration of the world from a piscine perspective . . . makes a persuasive case that what fish know is quite a lot" (Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books).Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, ethologist Jonathan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Why Stock Markets Crash

    Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

    by Didier Sornette, Didier Sornette ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials. In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience in these areas to propose a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Metazoa

    Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind’s essential link to the animal world." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the animals he observes." —Nigel Warburton, Five BooksThe scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Cost-Benefit Analysis for Project Appraisal

    by Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström ...
    Written by two leading experts, this is a compact guide to the key tools and methods necessary to carry out cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The authors use modern economic tools to obtain general equilibrium cost-benefit rules that can be used to evaluate small projects, as well as large and even mega projects. Intertemporal issues like discounting, the shadow price of capital, and the treatment of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD