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Alex Studies(2002) PEPPERBERG, IRENE MAXINETwenty years ago Pepperberg set out to discover whether large-brained, highly social parrots were capable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constVezava: Mehka50,87 € -
Built for Speed(2003) BYERS, JOHN A.North America’s fastest mammal, the pronghorn can accelerate explosively from standing to a top speed of 60 miles per hour—but it can also cruise at 45 mph for many miles. What accounts for the speed of this extraordinary animal? And what is it like to beVezava: Trda56,38 €
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Political Competition(2006) ROEMER, JOHN E.John Roemer presents a unified and rigorous theory of political competition between parties and he models the theory under many specifications, including whether parties are policy oriented or oriented toward winning, whether they are certain or uncertainVezava: Mehka47,68 €
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Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy(2005) DILWORTH, RICHARDSONUsing the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and fVezava: Trda109,66 €
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Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing(2004) MCDONNELL, LORRAINE M.Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s. McDonnell draws lessons from these stories for the federaVezava: Trda102,44 €
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Body Heat(2004) BLUMBERG, MARK S.In this entertaining and illuminating book, biopsychologist Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives of all animals. He moves from the physical principles that govern the flow of heat in and out of our bodies to the many complex evVezava: Mehka42,27 €
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Lectures on Economic Growth(2004) LUCAS, ROBERT E.In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal On the Mechanics of Economic Development to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures.Vezava: Mehka64,07 €
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Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology(2006)Covering more than 50 central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, this book offers an overview of this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evVezava: Mehka63,46 €
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Made to Break(2007) SLADE, GILESIn this history of 20th-century technology, Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America’s rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. But by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, he argues, weVezava: Mehka42,91 €
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Maynard's Revenge(2011) TAYLOR, LANCEExposes the unrealistic assumptions of the rational expectations and real business cycle approaches and of mainstream finance theory. This title argues that in separating monetary and financial behavior from real behavior, they do not address the ways thaVezava: Trda70,28 €
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Theology of Arithmetic(2013) KALVESMAKI, JOELIn the second century, some Gnostic Christians used numerical structures to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. The Theology of Arithmetic explores the rich variety of number symbolism used by gnosticizing groups and their orthodoxVezava: Mehka31,29 €
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Eternal Criminal Record(2015) JACOBS, JAMES B.For 60 million Americans a criminal record overshadows everything else about their identity. Citizens have a right to know when someone around them represents a threat. But convicted persons have rights too. James Jacobs examines the problem of erroneousVezava: Trda62,65 €
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Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law(2016) FROHNEN, BRUCE P.,CAREY, GEORGE W.Americans are ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other quasi-laws designed to reform society, Bruce Frohnen and George Carey argue. Consequently, the Constitution no longer means what it says to theVezava: Trda60,57 €
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One King Lear(2021) VICKERS, BRIANIn the 1980s influential scholars argued that Shakespeare revised King Lear in light of theatrical performance, resulting in two texts by the bard’s own hand. The two-text theory hardened into orthodoxy. Here Sir Brian Vickers makes the case that ShakespeVezava: Trda65,88 €
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From Frege to Godel(2002) VAN HEIJENOORT, JEANGathered together here are the fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic. A complete translation of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift—which opened a great epoch in the history of logic by fully presenting propositional calculus and quaVezava: Mehka62,95 €
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Health Services Research(1993)Despite the long and distinguished history of health services research in the United States, this unparalleled work is the first comprehensive account of what health services research aims to do and what the research has actually accomplished. Specially cVezava: Mehka64,42 €
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Johnson and His Age(1984)Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson’s death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation’s most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson’s life, major figures of the age, andVezava: Mehka26,58 €
