AlbertBandura is the most cited living psychologist and is regularly named as...Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories and experiments described in his 1973 study...more
The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed t...The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines three of these uprisings-the French Russian and Chinese revolutions-to consider the forces that make such dramatic...more
Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of stud...Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity rather than change than Albert Hourani s A History of the Arab Peoples. Hourani s work had three major aims: to refute the idea that Arab society stagnated...more
Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger s semina...Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger s seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally theories of learning and education...more
Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitio...Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March s work promotes the preservation of companies competitiveness and sustainability in the...more
Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French p...Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age he was also a composer and writer of opera a novelist and a memoirist...more
Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitio...Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable growth. March s work promotes the preservation of companies competitiveness and sustainability in the...more
It sa preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have...It s a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear such as markings highlighting slight damage to the cover minimal wear to the binding etc. but they will not affect the overall reading...more
How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu the solut...How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities that effectively side-stepped the conventional wisdom of the time. Historians had long held that Iraq -...more
Mary Douglas is an outstanding example ofan evaluative thinker at work. In Pu...Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as evolving from...more
This book is concerned with why people engage in aggressive behavior. Theories...This book is concerned with why people engage in aggressive behavior. Theories of human behavior have changed over the years as interest in approaches that depict behavior as instinctively determined or impelled by drive forces have declined as...more
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Pedagogy - Science Theory Anth...Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Pedagogy - Science Theory Anthropology grade: 1 7 University of Wuppertal course: Theory of Learning language: English abstract: This term paper explores the subject Model-directed Learning Albert...more
This book discusses three important hot research issues: social networking-bas...This book discusses three important hot research issues: social networking-based learning machine learning-based user modeling and sentiment analysis. Although these three technologies have been widely used by researchers around the globe by...more
First published in 1976 this volume is organized about two themes: the experim...First published in 1976 this volume is organized about two themes: the experimental analysis of aggression and the application of learning principles to the prevention and modification of delinquency. The chapters demonstrate how problems of...more
Herrnstein & Murray s The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raise...Herrnstein & Murray s The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation. The authors central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social...more