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Studieboeken (156)
The World and the West
The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire
2002 || Paperback || Philip D. Curtin || Cambridge University Press
This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries - the age of European empire. It deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power that existed in this period. The challenge and the response are presented through a series of selected and...
The Politics of Crisis Management / 2nd edition
Public Leadership under Pressure
2016 || Paperback || Arjen Boin e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact, while critics and bureaucratic competitors make use of social media to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policymakers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisis experience.
In the new edition of this uniquely comprehensive analy...
The Public Sphere
An Introduction
2004 || Paperback || Alan McKee || Cambridge University Press
What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the pu...
Representing and Intervening
Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
1983 || Paperback || Ian Hacking || Cambridge University Press
This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities.
The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. 'Intervening' presents the first sustained treatment of experimental science for many years and uses...
Discourse
A Critical Introduction
2005 || Paperback || Jan Blommaert || Cambridge University Press
This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines. Organised along thematic lines, the book begins with an outline of the basic principles, moving on to examine the methods and theory of CDA (critical discourse analysis). It covers topics such as text and context, language and inequality, choice and determination, history and process, ideology and identity.
Blommaert focuses on how la...
Phonetics
A Coursebook
2012 || Paperback || Rachael-Anne Knight || Cambridge University Press
A problem-based introduction to phonetics, featuring over three hundred integrated exercises to help students discover and practice the subject interactively. It assumes no previous knowledge of phonetics; concepts are introduced gradually and frequent cross-referencing means that students will see how the subject fits together and how later concepts build on earlier ones.
Prospect Theory
For Risk and Ambiguity
2010 || Paperback || Peter P. Wakker || Cambridge University Press
Risks and uncertainties play a role in virtually all of our decisions. Quantitative models have so far been either too unrealistic or too complex. This graduate textbook presents modern models that are both realistic and tractable. All mathematical tools are related to real-life processes, ensuring accessibility to a wide audience.
Comparing Media Systems
Three Models of Media and Politics
2004 || Paperback || Daniel C. Hallin e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems, and to explore the ...
Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology / 1st edition
2006 || Paperback || James Conolly e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Geographical Information Systems has moved from the domain of the computer specialist into the wider archaeological community, providing it with an exciting new research method. This clearly written but rigorous book provides a comprehensive guide to that use. Topics covered include: the theoretical context and the basics of GIS; data acquisition including database design; interpolation of elevation models; exploratory data analysis including spatial queries; statistical spatial analysis; map...
A Concise History of Japan
2015 || Paperback || Brett L. Walker || Cambridge University Press
To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine.
The book begins by tracing the country's early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life...