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Interpersonal Relationships
2013 || Paperback || Diana Jackson-Dwyer || Taylor & Francis
With a more specific focus than the all-encompassing textbook, each title in the Foundations of Psychology series enables students who are new to psychology to get to grips with a key area of psychological research, while also developing an understanding of basic concepts, debates, and research methodologies. In this book Diana Jackson-Dwyer presents an introductory survey of classic and recent research on relationships and the theories that underpin them. The book starts with a brief overvie...
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Mathematics that Works
vectors and Matrices Applied
2018 || Paperback || Maarten de Gee || Epsilon Uitgaven
From ancient times, mathematics has developed side-by-side with physics; only in the last two hundred years they came apart as different branches of science. Extensive use of mathematics in other sciences, such as biology, chemistry, economics, pharmacology, environmental and social sciences is even more recent. Nowadays, knowledge of mathematical techniques is indispensable also for students and researchers in these fields.
The series of textbooks “Mathematics that Works” presents mathem...
Reckoning with Risk / 1st edition
Learning to Live with Uncertainty
2003 || Paperback || Gerd Gigerenzer || Penguin Books
Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in our lives, it feels as if we live in an uncertain and dangerous world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are we misled by our ignorance of the reality of risk? Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own innumeracy, w...
Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics / 3rd edition
Paperback || Howard Eves || Dover Publications
Engineering Mathematics with Examples and Applications
2016 || Paperback || Xin-She Yang || Elsevier
Engineering Mathematics with Examples and Applications provides a compact and concise primer in the field, starting with the foundations, and then gradually developing to the advanced level of mathematics that is necessary for all engineering disciplines. Therefore, this book's aim is to help undergraduates rapidly develop the fundamental knowledge of engineering mathematics. The book can also be used by graduates to review and refresh their mathematical skills.
Step-by-step worked examples w...
Financial Risk Forecasting / 1st edition
The Theory and Practice of Forecasting Market Risk with Implementation in R and Matlab
2011 || Hardcover || Jon Danielsson || Wiley
Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Derived from the authors teaching notes and years spent training practitioners in risk management techniques, it brings together the three key disciplines of finance, statistics and modeling (programming), to provide a thorough grounding in risk management techniques. Written by renowned risk expert Jon Danielsson, the book begins with an introduction to financial mark...
Calculus: Early Transcendentals
2018 || Hardcover || Michael Sullivan e.a. || Macmillan
The trusted resource you need to meet the challenges of teaching Calculus.
The trusted author team behind this textbook have understood the challenges instructors face in a Calculus course and have crafted a resource that gives you the tools to meet them. This text helps students learn calculus conceptually, while also emphasizing computational and problem-solving skills with a wide array of problems including engaging challenge problems and applied exercises that model the physical sciences,...
Preparation for Calculus (International Edition)
Functions and How They Change
2022 || Paperback || Bruce Crauder e.a. || Macmillan
A springboard for success in Calculus.
With a unique framework and a fresh approach Preparation for Calculus equips students with the necessary skills and confidence to succeed in their foundational calculus course and beyond. The authors focus on challenges observed in the modern classroom to create an accessible resource that will help students develop strong calculation skills and mathematical sophistication.
Calculus
Early Transcendentals / 4th edition
2018 || Hardcover || Jon Rogawski e.a. || Macmillan
The author's goal for the book is that it's clearly written, could be read by a calculus student and would motivate them to engage in the material and learn more. Moreover, to create a text in which exposition, graphics, and layout would work together to enhance all facets of a student's calculus experience. They paid special attention to certain aspects of the text:1.
Clear, accessible exposition that anticipates and addresses student difficulties.2. Layout and figures that communicate the f...
Observation and Experiment / 1st edition
An Introduction to Causal Inference
2019 || Paperback || Paul Rosenbaum || Harvard University Press
A daily glass of wine prolongs life-yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while others say it increases unemployment. Scientists once confidently claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduced the risk of heart disease but now they equally confidently claim it raises that risk.
What should we make of this endless barrage of conflicting claims? Observation and Experiment is an introduction to causal inference by one of the f...