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Quantum Theory - HOME Quantum Theory Quantum Theory, Black Holes, and Inflation by Ian G. Moss, Among the most fascinating and rapidly developing areas in modem physics is the study of cosmological phenomena such as black holes, the cosmic microwave background, and the inflationary nature of the universe. Recent theoretical and experimental developments in these fields have significantly increased our understanding of these exciting and important topics. In order to allow the reader fully to understand these new developments, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and Inflation begins by introducing the theory of quantised fields in a mathematically ...

Biofeedback Emg Theory - HOME Biofeedback Emg Theory Communication Theories for Everyday Life by John R. Baldwin, "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" introduces readers to the complexities of theories in communication studies, mass communication, and public relations, emphasizing their connection to everyday life. Instead of utilizing a “ theory-a-day” approach, this text cuts across content areas and clusters related theories, making them easier for readers to process and apply to real-life situations. "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" also addresses theories in emerging areas and growing fields, such as media research, organizational communication, and computer-mediated ...

Theory of Relativity - HOME Theory of Relativity Group Theory and General Relativity: Representations of the Lorentz Group and Their Applications to the Gravitational Field by Moshe Carmeli, This is the only book on the subject of group theory and Einstein's theory of gravitation. It contains an extensive discussion on general relativity from the viewpoint of group theory and gauge fields. It also puts together in one volume many scattered, original works, on the use of group theory in general relativity theory. There are twelve chapters in the book. The first six are devoted to rotation ...

Communication Mass Theory - HOME Communication Mass Theory Communication Theories for Everyday Life by John R. Baldwin, "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" introduces readers to the complexities of theories in communication studies, mass communication, and public relations, emphasizing their connection to everyday life. Instead of utilizing a “ theory-a-day” approach, this text cuts across content areas and clusters related theories, making them easier for readers to process and apply to real-life situations. "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" also addresses theories in emerging areas and growing fields, such as media research, organizational communication, and computer-mediated ...

Domino Theory - HOME Domino Theory Communication Theories for Everyday Life by John R. Baldwin, "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" introduces readers to the complexities of theories in communication studies, mass communication, and public relations, emphasizing their connection to everyday life. Instead of utilizing a “ theory-a-day” approach, this text cuts across content areas and clusters related theories, making them easier for readers to process and apply to real-life situations. "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" also addresses theories in emerging areas and growing fields, such as media research, organizational communication, and computer-mediated communication, ...

Game Theory - HOME Game Theory Gaming the Market: Applying Game Theory to Create Winning Trading Strategies by Ron Shelton, Gaming the Market " Game theory is hot." — The Wall Street Journal Gaming the Market: Applying Game Theory to Create Winning Trading Strategies is the first book to show investors how game theory is applicable to decisions about buying and selling stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options. As a practical trading guide, Gaming the Market will help investors master this revolutionary approach, and employ it to their advantage. Although game theory has been studied since the ...

Mouldings Theory - HOME Mouldings Theory Communication Theories for Everyday Life by John R. Baldwin, "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" introduces readers to the complexities of theories in communication studies, mass communication, and public relations, emphasizing their connection to everyday life. Instead of utilizing a “ theory-a-day” approach, this text cuts across content areas and clusters related theories, making them easier for readers to process and apply to real-life situations. "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" also addresses theories in emerging areas and growing fields, such as media research, organizational communication, and computer-mediated communication, ...

Comparative Economy Political Theory - HOME Comparative Economy Political Theory Game Theory for Political Scientists by James D. Morrow, Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. This book is the first comprehensive attempt to adapt contemporary game theory to political ...

Juliana Theory - HOME Juliana Theory Communication Theories for Everyday Life by John R. Baldwin, "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" introduces readers to the complexities of theories in communication studies, mass communication, and public relations, emphasizing their connection to everyday life. Instead of utilizing a “ theory-a-day” approach, this text cuts across content areas and clusters related theories, making them easier for readers to process and apply to real-life situations. "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" also addresses theories in emerging areas and growing fields, such as media research, organizational communication, and computer-mediated communication, ...

Marxist Theory - HOME Marxist Theory Post-Marxist Theory: An Introduction Poststructuralist Marxism, or post-Marxism is a theoretical view-point that elaborates and revises the work of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. Unlike traditional Marxism, which emphasizes the priority of class struggle and the common humanity of oppressed groups, post-Marxism reveals the sexual, racial, class, and ethnic divisions of modern Western society. This book surveys the different versions of post-Marxist theory: the economic theory of Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, the historical methodology of Michel Foucault, the political theory of Ernesto Laclau and ...

Communication Ferment Foundation Future Mass Theory - HOME Communication Ferment Foundation Future Mass Theory Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future (with Infotrac) MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY provides a comprehensive, historically-based introduction to mass communication theory. Clearly written with examples, graphics, and other materials to illustrate key theories, the text traces the emergence of two main bodies of mass communication theory?social/behavioral and critical/cultural?and concludes with a discussion of how these two traditions support the media literacy movement and might be combined to produce a new theory of mediated communication. The authors emphasize that media theories are ...

Maslows Theory - HOME Maslows Theory Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Harold Maslow, "If we wish to help humans to become more fully human, we must realize not only that they try to realize themselves, but that they are also reluctant or afraid or unable to do so. Only by fully appreciating this dialectic between sickness and health can we help to tip the balance in favor of health." --Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow's theories of self-actualization and the hierarchy of human needs are the cornerstone of modern humanistic psychology, and no book so well epitomizes those ideas as his classic Toward a Psychology of Being. A profound book, an exciting book, its influence continues to spread, more than ...

Social Theory - HOME Social Theory Theories of Social Order by Michael Hechter, This collection of readings provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single most important problem in sociological theory: the problem of social order. Contending that the purpose of theory in the social sciences lies in its ability to explain real-world phenomena, Theories of Social Order departs from the standard theory reader by presenting classical texts alongside contemporary theoretical extensions and recent empirical applications to explore this substantive theme. Its unique approach--focusing on theories rather than theorists and on one ...

Contingency Theory - HOME Contingency Theory The Contingency Theory of Organizations by Lex Donaldson, Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory - one of the major theoretical lenses used to view organizations. It includes both an appreciation of the coherency of contingency theory overall and a frank recognition of some of the deficiencies in contingency theory research. The coherent underlying model provides the platform from which to make good some of the deficiencies through a series ...

Psychoanalytic Theory - HOME Psychoanalytic Theory Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction by Anthony Elliott, This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application in the social sciences and humanities is now available in a new and fully revised edition. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists such as Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Kohut, Lacan, Laplanche, and Kristeva. He also examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies, from feminism to postmodernism. Much of the text is completely new, covering issues ranging from psychoanalytic approaches to race and post-colonialism to the reframing of sexuality studies in ...

Sociological Theory - HOME Sociological Theory Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World Rather than a work of theory itself, Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World is an insightful work that invites students to think creatively, reflexively, and critically about their social worlds. Written in a conversational tone that lifts the veil of theoretical jargon, Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory introduces students to the major classical theorists, including Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Schutz, Gilman, and Du Bois. This text focuses on the individual perspective of each theorist rather than ...

A Review of Game Theory - HOME A Review of Game Theory Game Theory for Political Scientists by James D. Morrow, Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. This book is the first comprehensive attempt to adapt contemporary game theory to ...

Communication Theory - HOME Communication Theory Communication Theories for Everyday Life by John R. Baldwin, "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" introduces readers to the complexities of theories in communication studies, mass communication, and public relations, emphasizing their connection to everyday life. Instead of utilizing a “ theory-a-day” approach, this text cuts across content areas and clusters related theories, making them easier for readers to process and apply to real-life situations. "Communication Theories for Everyday Life" also addresses theories in emerging areas and growing fields, such as media research, organizational communication, and computer-mediated communication, ...

Critical Theory - HOME Critical Theory Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide by Lois Tyson, X This accessible guide offers a thorough introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that ...

Revelation Theory - HOME Revelation Theory The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented his revolutionary "seduction theory," arguing that acts of sexual abuse and violence inflicted on children are the direct cause of adult mental illness. Nine years later, Freud completely reversed his position, insisting that these sexual memories were actually fantasies that never happened. Why did Freud retract the seduction theory? And why has the psychoanalytic community gone to such lengths to conceal that retraction? In this landmark book, drawing on his ...

Collision Theory - HOME Collision Theory Scattering Theory: The Quantum Theory of Nonrelativistic Collisions Scattering Theory: The Quantum Theory of Nonrelativistic Collisions The Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases: An Account of the Kinetic Theory of Viscosity, Thermal Conduction and Diffusion in Gases by Sydney Chapman, X This classic book, now reissued in paperback, presents a detailed account of the mathematical theory of viscosity, thermal conduction and diffusion in non-uniform gases based on the solution of the Maxwell -- Boltzmann equations. The theory of Chapman and Enskog, describing work on dense gases, quantum theory of collisions ...

Theory and Criticism - HOME Theory and Criticism Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide by Lois Tyson, X This accessible guide offers a thorough introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use ...

Piagets Theory - HOME Piagets Theory Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development by Herbert P. Ginsburg, X This volume contains an up-to-date presentation of Piaget's theories, and explains their relevance to contemporary education. The Third Edition is updated to include a description of important work, particularly on development and learning, conducted during the last 10-15 years of Piaget's life. Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice by Hans G. Furth, X Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice Theory X and theory Y - Theory X and Theory ...

Social Exchange Theory - HOME Social Exchange Theory A Theory of Personality Development by Luciano L'Abate, With characteristic humility Luciano L'Abate has entitled this groundbreaking volume simply A Theory of Personality Development. But the theories put forth in these pages are anything but humble, representing, as they do, a radical departure from tradition. Unlike traditional theories of personality which have tended to be somewhat metaphysical, seeking to understand personality in a vacuum, Dr. L'Abate's theory is firmly rooted in the social and existential exigencies of everyday life as experienced within the five fundamental ...

Personality Theory - HOME Personality Theory Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality by Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Balanced and Comprehensive Coverage of Modern Theories of Personality Over the last two decades, the study of personality has grown and expanded at a rapid rate. The era of " contemporary" personality theory has been ushered in– fueled in the last quarter of the twentieth century by advances in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, genetics, psychopathology, computer technology, and neuroscience. Jeffrey Magnavita, one of the leading new scholars in the field of personality theory, offers a rich ...

Assumption Choice Rational Theory - HOME Assumption Choice Rational Theory The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order by Jon Elster, The question addressed in this challenging new book is: What binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war? Elster analyzes two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behavior, and cooperative behavior. The book examines various aspects of collective action and bargaining from the perspective of rational choice theory and the theory of social norms. It is a fundamental assumption of the book that social norms provide an important kind of motivation for action that is irreducible to rationality. Rational choice theory - Rational choice theory is a way of looking at deliberations between a ...

Number Theory - HOME Number Theory Number Theory for Computing by Song Y. Yan, There are many surprising connections between the theory of numbers, which is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, and computing and information theory. Number theory has important applications in computer organization and security, coding and cryptography, random number generation, hash functions, and graphics. Conversely, number theorists use computers in factoring large integers, determining primes, testing conjectures, and solving other problems. This book takes the reader from elementary number theory, via algorithmic number theory, to applied number theory in computer science. It ...

Information Theory - HOME Information Theory Information and Information Flow: An Introduction semantic information, and information flow. Syntactic information theory is concerned with the information contained in the very fact that some signals have a non-random structure. Semantic information theory is concerned with the meaning or information content of messages. The theory of information flow is concerned with deriving some piece of information from another. The theory takes us to situation semantics as a foundation of modern approaches in information theory. This work offers a brief overview of the background theory and explains the concepts ...

Psychodynamic Theory - HOME Psychodynamic Theory Cognitive Psychodynamics: From Conflict to Character by Mardi Jon Horowitz, Praise for Cognitive Psychodynamics . . . "It is refreshing to encounter an integrative reframing of the current status of psychodynamic theory and practice. . . . Professor Horowitz lays out a [clear] approach to assessment and psychotherapy . . . livened by brief, effective case studies." --Jerome L. Singer, Professor of Psychology and Child Study Center, Yale University And other titles by the same author . . . Mardi Horowitz has gone where others fear to tread . . . [by] blending traditional psychodynamic concepts with cognitive psychology and neuroscience. The result is a ...

Einstein Theory of Relativity - HOME Einstein Theory of Relativity Group Theory and General Relativity: Representations of the Lorentz Group and Their Applications to the Gravitational Field by Moshe Carmeli, This is the only book on the subject of group theory and Einstein's theory of gravitation. It contains an extensive discussion on general relativity from the viewpoint of group theory and gauge fields. It also puts together in one volume many scattered, original works, on the use of group theory in general relativity theory. There are twelve chapters in the book. The first six are devoted to ...

Game Review Root Theory - HOME Game Review Root Theory Game Theory for Political Scientists by James D. Morrow, Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. This book is the first comprehensive attempt to adapt contemporary game theory to political ...

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Just War Theory (Readings In Social And Political Theory) (Paperback) : Author: Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Number of Pages: 340. Published On: 2002/12/01. Language: ENGLISH

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