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  • Nonprofits Made Easy

    The Social Networking Toolkit for Business

    by Entrepreneur Press, David H. Bangs ...
    The main priority of a non-profit organization is the organization's philanthropic mission. Managers are extremely passionate about furthering the mission, yet they are not often trained in business management. However, to fulfill its mission a non-profit must be financially solvent. Starting and Operating a Non-Profit Made Easy helps non-profits become and stay financially solvent by applying ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Predicting Hotspots

    Using Machine Learning to Understand Civil Conflict

    by Atin Basuchoudhary, James T. Bang, Tinni Sen, John David ...
    This book should be useful to anyone interested in identifying the causes of civil conflict and doing something to end it. It even suggests a pathway for the lay reader. Civil conflict is a persistent source of misery to humankind. Its study, however, lacks a comprehensive theory of its causes. Nevertheless, the question of cooperation or conflict is at the heart of political economy. This book ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Identifying the Complex Causes of Civil War

    A Machine Learning Approach

    by Atin Basuchoudhary, James T. Bang, John David, Tinni Sen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book uses machine-learning to identify the causes of conflict from among the top predictors of conflict. This methodology elevates some complex causal pathways that cause civil conflict over others, thus teasing out the complex interrelationships between the most important variables that cause civil conflict. Success in this realm will lead to scientific theories of conflict that will be ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

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    Kallocain

    Penguin Classics

    by Karin Boye ...
    Narrated by Claes Bang ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Claes Bang, best known for his role in the BBC's & Netflix's Dracula. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff.Leo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. ... Read more

    $23.98 CAD

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    We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    by Shirley Jackson ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary ... Read more

    $19.55 CAD

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    Good Omens

    by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett ...
    Narrated by Martin Jarvis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 33 min

    Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!“Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python.” — San Francisco ChronicleThe classic novel of angels, demons, and Armageddon from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Wi... ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Causal Inference

    The Mixtape

    by Scott Cunningham ...
    An accessible, contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences“Causation versus correlation has been the basis of arguments—economic and otherwise—since the beginning of time. Causal Inference: The Mixtape uses legit real-world examples that I found genuinely thought-provoking. It’s rare that a book prompts readers to expand their outlook; this one ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Fundamentals of Political Science Research

    by Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten ...
    The third edition of the best-selling The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of scientific research on politics. The authors present an integrated approach to research design and empirical analyses whereby researchers can ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    by John R. Zaller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Computational Social Science

    Discovery and Prediction

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Quantitative research in social science research is changing rapidly. Researchers have vast and complex arrays of data with which to work: we have incredible tools to sift through the data and recognize patterns in that data; there are now many sophisticated models that we can use to make sense of those patterns; and we have extremely powerful computational systems that help us accomplish these ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Handbook On Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods And Practices

    by Khandker Shahidur; B. Koolwal Gayatri; Samad Hussain ...
    Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Party Competition

    An Agent-Based Model

    by Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer the first comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD