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  • Justifying Ethics

    Human Rights and Human Nature

    by Jan Gorecki ...
    "Human rights include individual rights against government oppression, such as the right to freedom of thought, religion, speech, assembly, and to a fair system of criminal justice. But even in this basic political sense, ""human rights"" means different things in different historical and cultural contexts and advocacy of such rights has frequently been viewed as subjective. Justifying Ethics ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas

    by Jan Górecki, Ostap Okhrin ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book offers a thorough understanding of Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas (HACs) and their practical applications. It covers the basics of copulas, explores the Archimedean family, and delves into the specifics of HACs, including their fundamental properties. The text also addresses sampling algorithms, HAC parameter estimation, and structure, and highlights temporal models with applications ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • System Identification

    Theory for the User

    by Lennart Ljung ...
    The field's leading text, now completely updated.Modeling dynamical systems — theory, methodology, and applications.Lennart Ljung's System Identification: Theory for the User is a complete, coherent description of the theory, methodology, and practice of System Identification. This completely revised Second Edition introduces subspace methods, methods that utilize frequency domain data, and ... Read more

    $149.99 CAD

  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data

    by Piet de Jong, Gillian Z. Heller ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    This is the only book actuaries need to understand generalized linear models (GLMs) for insurance applications. GLMs are used in the insurance industry to support critical decisions. Until now, no text has introduced GLMs in this context or addressed the problems specific to insurance data. Using insurance data sets, this practical, rigorous book treats GLMs, covers all standard exponential family ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Hidden Markov Models for Time Series

    An Introduction Using R, Second Edition

    by Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald, Roland Langrock ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
    Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data. The book provides a broad understanding of the models and their uses.After presenting the basic model formulation, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian ... Read more

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  • Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament

    Essays 2002-2008

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and the significance for human life of our place ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Authoritarianism

    Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

    by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political ... Read more

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  • Statistical Analysis Techniques in Particle Physics

    Fits, Density Estimation and Supervised Learning

    by Ilya Narsky, Frank C. Porter ...
    Modern analysis of HEP data needs advanced statistical tools to separate signal from background. This is the first book which focuses on machine learning techniques. It will be of interest to almost every high energy physicist, and, due to its coverage, suitable for students. ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • New Keywords

    A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris ...
    Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society.Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD