princeton university press jul 2010 (12 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Certain Ambiguity is an amazing narrative that glows with a vivid sense of the beauty and wonder of mathematics.'--Martin Gardner.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work. Although he develops profound critiques of morality, culture, and religion, it is very difficult to spell out the precise political implications of his insights. He himself never did so in any systematic way. In this book, Tamsin Shaw claims that there is a reason for this: Nietzsche's insights entail a distinctive form of political skepticism.Shaw argues that the modern political predicament, for Nietzsche, is shaped by two important historical phenomena. The first is secularization, or the erosion of religious belief, and the fragmentation of moral life that it entails. The second is the unparalleled ideological power of the modern state. The promotion of Nietzsche's own values, Shaw insists, requires resistance to state ideology. But Nietzsche cannot envisage how these values might themselves provide a stable basis for political authority; this is because secular societies, lacking recognized normative expertise, also lack a reliable mechanism for making moral insight politically effective.In grappling with this predicament, Shaw claims, Nietzsche raises profound questions about political legitimacy and political authority in the modern world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A great book for anyone wanting to know what it's like to be on the front lines of a mission to perhaps the most fascinating planetary body in the solar system. Lorenz and Mitton bring home the fact that planetary exploration is not a faceless enterprise done by anonymous men in white coats, but a personal adventure carried along by real people with real charisma, real quirks, and real lives.'--Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To what extent should government be permitted to intervene in personal choices In grappling with this question, liberal theory seeks to balance individual liberty with the advancement of collective goals such as equality. Too often, however, society's obligation to provide meaningful opportunities is overshadowed by its commitment to personal freedom. Tough Choices charts a middle course between freedom-oriented anti-interventionism and equality-oriented social welfare, presenting a way to structure choices that equalize opportunities while protecting the freedom of individuals to choose among them.Drawing on insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and educational theory, Sigal Ben-Porath makes the case for structured paternalism, which is based on the understanding that state intervention is often inevitable, and that therefore theorists and policymakers must focus on the extent to which it can productively be applied, as well as on the forms it should take in different social domains. Ben-Porath explores how structured paternalism can play a role in providing equal opportunities for individual choice in an array of personal and social contexts, including the intimate lives of adults, parent-child relationships, school choice, and intercultural relations.Tough Choices demonstrates how structured paternalism can inform more egalitarian social policies, ones that acknowledge personal, social, and cultural differences as well as the challenges all individuals may face when they make a choice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a book by a political scientist that goes well beyond the political-science literature on constitutional courts and constitutional adjudication. Robertson sees new types of constitutions emerging that are not just legal documents structuring the political system, but are designed to give binding force to those values to which a society aspires, in most cases after a deep break in their history. This is a remarkable piece of research.'--Dieter Grimm, Humboldt University of Berlin and Yale Law School.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Even as innovative entrepreneurship has emerged as the goal for policymakers around the globe, economists have struggled to find its proper place in microtheory. No more. In this pathbreaking new book, William Baumol provides the blueprint for understanding the crucial role of entrepreneurship and its contribution to innovation and ultimately economic growth. This lively and thoughtful book highlights the distinct role entrepreneurs play in the economy and reveals why the entrepreneur can no longer remain the invisible man in economic theory.'--David B. Audretsch, author of The Entrepreneurial Society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'With his economics of singularities, Lucien Karpik has given researchers even more than a masterpiece of economic sociology. He introduces new methods, new concepts, and new results. He shows how the differences between markets are more important than their similarities, and how our approach to markets should deal first and foremost with qualities. This book puts economics back on the road toward generality!'--Olivier Favereau, Université Paris X and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Short and comprehensive, this book is appropriate for novices of polynomial chaos. Many diverse fields are adopting this method, and this book can be used for first-year graduate studies as well as senior undergraduate courses. The book includes important new developments, such as non-Gaussian processes and stochastic collocation methods.'--George Karniadakis, Brown University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This well-organized book is an extensive and complete introduction to graph theoretic methods in the context of multiagent and multivehicle cooperative networks. The presentation of the material is elegant and in addition to basic results, the book includes new topics not commonly found in the literature. Ideal for graduate students and researchers, the book represents a significant contribution to the emerging field of cooperative control and consensus.'--Randy Beard, Brigham Young University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This classic book is an introduction to dynamic programming, presented by the scientist who coined the term and developed the theory in its early stages. In 'Dynamic Programming,' Richard E. Bellman introduces his groundbreaking theory and furnishes a new and versatile mathematical tool for the treatment of many complex problems, both within and outside of the discipline.The book is written at a moderate mathematical level, requiring only a basic foundation in mathematics, including calculus. The applications formulated and analyzed in such diverse fields as mathematical economics, logistics, scheduling theory, communication theory, and control processes are as relevant today as they were when Bellman first presented them. A new introduction by Stuart Dreyfus reviews Bellman's later work on dynamic programming and identifies important research areas that have profited from the application of Bellman's theory.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Encyclopedic in scope, this book achieves an excellent balance between the theoretical and physical approaches to the subject. It coherently leads the reader from first-principle definitions, through a combination of physical and mathematical arguments, to the full derivation of many fundamental results. The vast amount of material and impeccable choice of topics make it an invaluable reference.'--Eduardo Dueñez, University of Texas, San Antonio.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sren Kierkegaard (1813-55) published an extraordinary number of works during his lifetime, but he left behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his 'journals and not Elektronisches Buch.'Volume 3 of this 11-volume edition of 'Kierkegaard's Journals and Not Elektronisches Buch' includes Kierkegaard's extensive notes on lectures by the Danish theologian H. N. Clausen and by the German philosopher Schelling, as well as a great many other entries on philosophical, theological, and literary topics. In addition, the volume includes many personal reflections by Kierkegaard, notably those in which he provides an account of his love affair with Regine Olsen, his onetime fiance.