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The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections

New Press, 2019

The former special assistant for legislative affairs to President Clinton, president of the American Constitution Society, and author of the "damn fine" (Elle) Under the Bus shows how the left can undo the right's damage and take the country back

Despite representing the beliefs of a minority...

Instructional Design Principles for High-Stakes Problem-Solving Environments

Springer, 2018

This book examines the types of problems and constraints faced by specialists in the areas of security, medicine, mental health, aviation and engineering. Every day we rely on highly trained specialists to solve complex problems in high-stakes environments, that is, environments involving direct threats to the preservation of human...

Python for Data Science For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

For Dummies, 2019

The fast and easy way to learn Python programming and statistics

Python is a general-purpose programming language created in the late 1980s?and named after Monty Python?that's used by thousands of people to do things from testing microchips at Intel, to powering Instagram, to building video games with the...

Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script (Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Co)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2019

In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of...

Quantum Mechanics: A Simplified Approach

CRC Press, 2018

Quantum mechanics is one of the most challenging subjects to learn. It is challenging because quantum phenomenon is counterintuitive, and the mathematics used to explain such a phenomenon is very abstract, and difficult to grasp. This textbook is an attempt to overcome these challenges. Every chapter presents quantum ideas step- by-...

Panel Data Econometrics with R

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

Panel Data Econometrics with R provides a tutorial for using R in the field of panel data econometrics. Illustrated throughout with examples in econometrics, political science, agriculture and epidemiology, this book presents classic methodology and applications as well as more advanced topics and recent developments in this...

Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste,...

DNA Traffic in the Environment

Springer, 2019

This book comprehensively discusses our current understanding of the role and biological mechanisms of horizontal transfer of genetic elements in the environment, which has been important in the evolution of prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria).

Horizontal transfer of genetic elements generates variations of prokaryotes...

Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)

Duke University Press, 2019

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume...

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You

Doubleday, 2018

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The definitive guide to spreading ideas, building movements, and leaping ahead in our chaotic, connected age. Get the book New York Times columnist David Brooks calls "the best window I’ve seen into this new world."

Why do some leap ahead while others...

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution

University of Chicago Press, 2019

Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us.

Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to...

Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives

Routledge, 2018

Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives applies a contemporary, psychoanalytic lens to the many facets of intimacy between people, from romantic and sexual relationships, to friendliness, as well as the ways intimacy is mediated by new digital technologies.

Identifying...

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