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  • Organisational innovation in health services

    Lessons from the NHS Treatment Centres

    by John Gabbay, Andrée le May, Catherine Pope, Glenn Robert, Paul Bate, Mary-Ann Elston ...
    Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with completely unforeseen results reveals clear, practical lessons based on case study research involving over 200 interviews. Policy makers, managers and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare

    Clinical Mindlines

    by John Gabbay, Andrée le May ...
    This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge.Evidence-based practice has recently become a key part of the training of all health professionals. Yet despite its ‘gold-standard’ status, it is faltering because ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Knowledge Transformation in Health and Social Care

    Putting Mindlines to Work

    Edited by John Gabbay, Andrée le May ...
    The term ‘mindlines’ has become common currency in the world of research implementation and evidence-based practice. This book updates, develops and applies the mindlines model more widely. It sheds light on how we can realistically mobilise and transform research-based evidence into practice in context.This illuminating book shows how the mindlines model can be put to work. It highlights how ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Logic from Russell to Church

    Edited by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 5 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    This volume is number five in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. It covers the first 50 years of the development of mathematical logic in the 20th century, and concentrates on the achievements of the great names of the period--Russell, Post, Gödel, Tarski, Church, and the like. This was the period in which mathematical logic gave mature expression to its four main parts: set theory, ... Read more

    $247.49 USD

  • The Rise of Modern Logic: from Leibniz to Frege

    Edited by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    With the publication of the present volume, the Handbook of the History of Logic turns its attention to the rise of modern logic. The period covered is 1685-1900, with this volume carving out the territory from Leibniz to Frege. What is striking about this period is the earliness and persistence of what could be called 'the mathematical turn in logic'. Virtually every working logician is aware ... Read more

    $256.49 USD

  • Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic

    Edited by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic marks the initial appearance of the multi-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. Additional volumes will be published when ready, rather than in strict chronological order. Soon to appear are The Rise of Modern Logic: From Leibniz to Frege. Also in preparation are Logic From Russell to Gödel, Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, and The Many-Valued ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • British Logic in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic is designed to establish 19th century Britain as a substantial force in logic, developing new ideas, some of which would be overtaken by, and other that would anticipate, the century's later capitulation to the mathematization of logic. British Logic in the Nineteenth Century is indispensable reading and a definitive research resource for ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • The Many Valued and Nonmonotonic Turn in Logic

    Edited by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 8 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic brings together two of the most important developments in 20th century non-classical logic. These are many-valuedness and non-monotonicity. On the one approach, in deference to vagueness, temporal or quantum indeterminacy or reference-failure, sentences that are classically non-bivalent are allowed as inputs and outputs to consequence ... Read more

    $256.49 USD

  • Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic

    Edited by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 2 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    Starting at the very beginning with Aristotle's founding contributions, logic has been graced by several periods in which the subject has flourished, attaining standards of rigour and conceptual sophistication underpinning a large and deserved reputation as a leading expression of human intellectual effort. It is widely recognized that the period from the mid-19th century until the three-quarter ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems

    The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial

    by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    The present work is a continuation of the authors' acclaimed multi-volume APractical Logic of Cognitive Systems. After having investigated the notion ofrelevance in their previous volume, Gabbay and Woods now turn to abduction. Inthis highly original approach, abduction is construed as ignorance-preservinginference, in which conjecture plays a pivotal role. Abduction is a response to acognitive ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • Agenda Relevance: A Study in Formal Pragmatics

    by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods ...
    Series Book 1 - A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems
    Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation ofthe logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logicof Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning isidentified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlikewhat is ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century

    by Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, Akihiro Kanamori ...
    Series Book 6 - Handbook of the History of Logic
    Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. It is as a field of mathematics that both proceeds with its own internal questions and is capable of contextualizing over a broad range, which makes set theory an intriguing and highly distinctive subject. This handbook ... Read more

    $242.99 USD