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Showing 1 - 12 of 14 results for “andrzej nowak”
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  • The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920

    Lloyd George, Lenin and Poland

    by Andrzej Nowak ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent.The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe, and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Reliability of Structures

    by Andrzej S. Nowak, Kevin R. Collins ...
    Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Target in Control

    Social Influence as Distributed Information Processing

    by Andrzej K. Nowak, Robin R. Vallacher, Agnieszka Rychwalska, Magdalena Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Karolina Ziembowicz, Mikolaj Biesaga, Marta Kacprzyk-Murawska ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with macro-level properties of the (social) system. This integrative approach allows for advanced models ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • In Sync

    The Emergence of Function in Minds, Groups and Societies

    by Andrzej K. Nowak, Robin R. Vallacher, Ryszard Praszkier, Agnieszka Rychwalska, Michal Zochowski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems – from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies.For years, psychologists have investigated phenomena such as self-concept, social judgment, social relations, group dynamics, and cooperation ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Bridge Traffic Loading

    From Research to Practice

    Edited by Eugene OBrien, Andrzej Nowak, Colin Caprani ...
    There is considerable uncertainty about what level of traffic loading bridges should be designed for. Codes specify notional load models, generally to represent extreme levels of normal traffic, but these are often crude and have inconsistent levels of safety for different load effects. Over the past few decades, increasing quantities of reliable truck weight data has become available and it is ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Social Entrepreneurship

    Theory and Practice

    by Ryszard Praszkier, Andrzej Nowak ...
    Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible, social impact. Utilizing case studies drawn from various fields and all over the world, the authors document how social ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • An Introduction to Socio-Finance

    by Jørgen Vitting Andersen, Andrzej Nowak ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.Two different levels of this sociological influence are considered: First, we examine how price formation results from the social dynamics of ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Polish Science and Technology Studies in the New Millennium

    Edited by Krzysztof Abriszewski, Aleksandra Derra, Andrzej W. Nowak ...
    Series Book 8 - Studies on Culture, Technology and Education
    The tradition of Polish Science Studies dates back to the works of L. Fleck and F. Znaniecki. In the 1990s, the field found itself in crisis due to the many institutional transformations in the former Eastern Bloc. The subsequent resurgence started with the new millennium thanks to scholars particularly interested in the Actor-Network Theory, which offered conceptual tools to combine philosophical ... Read more

    $50.59 CAD

  • Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy

    Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking

    Edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Andrzej Nowak, Paul Ormerod, Bridget Rosewell, Yi-Cheng Zhang ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world ... Read more

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  • The Dynamic Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology

    A Special Issue of personality and Social Psychology Review

    Edited by Robin R. Vallacher, Stephen John Read, Andrzej Nowak ...
    Recent years have witnessed the ascendance of a new way to conceptualize and investigate the nature of dynamism at different levels of psychological reality. Areas of inquiry as diverse as cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, organizational behavior, and political sociology are being reframed in terms that allow rigorous and precise insight into basic dynamic processes. There are ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

  • Complex Human Dynamics

    From Mind to Societies

    Edited by Andrzej Nowak, Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak, David Brée ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems. The aim is to provide scientists with different backgrounds - physics, applied mathematics and computer sciences - with the opportunity to apply the tools of their trade to an ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Computational Social Psychology

    Edited by Robin R. Vallacher, Stephen J. Read, Andrzej Nowak ...
    Series series Frontiers of Social Psychology
    Computational Social Psychology showcases a new approach to social psychology that enables theorists and researchers to specify social psychological processes in terms of formal rules that can be implemented and tested using the power of high speed computing technology and sophisticated software. This approach allows for previously infeasible investigations of the multi-dimensional nature of human ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD