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Einstein's Jury - The Race to Test Relativity - Bog af Jeffrey Crelinsten - Paperback

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The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy - New York as a Test Case - Bog af Lee Benson - Hardback

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Higher Admissions - Bog af Nicholas Lemann - Hardback

How to make post-SAT American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world's first mass higher education system-and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a \meritocracy\ in which admission to selective higher education institutions would be granted to those who most deserved..

DKK 189.95

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The Mirror and the Mind - A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences - Bog af Katja Guenther - Paperback

How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects--humans, infants, animals, and robots--in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test, exploring how researchers from a range of..

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The New Deal Lawyers - Bog af Peter H. Irons - Paperback

Recipient of the J. Willard Hurst Award by the US Law and Society Association, this study examines the legal history and ramifications of the New Deal by tracing the path of crucial constitutional test cases from 1933 to 1937.

DKK 662.95

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A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street - Bog af Andrew W. Lo - Paperback

Financial experts have regarded the movements of markets as a random walk - unpredictable meanderings akin to a drunkard's unsteady gait - and this hypothesis has become a cornerstone of modern financial economics and many investment strategies. This work puts the Random Walk Hypothesis to the test.

DKK 533.95

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Modernization and the Japanese Factory - Bog af Robert Mortimer Marsh - Paperback

While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic \miracle\ in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data

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Self-Fulfillment - Bog af Alan Gewirth - Paperback

Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical and value-neutral. This book seeks to overcome these and other arguments.

DKK 287.95

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Charter Schools - Hope or Hype? - Bog af Jack Buckley - Paperback

Examining school data going back more than a decade, this book measures how charter schools perform compared to traditional public schools. It argues that while charter schools may meet the most basic test of sound public policy, the evidence suggests they all too often fall short of advocates' claims.

DKK 452.95

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When Experiments Travel - Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects - Bog af Adriana Petryna - Paperback

The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. This title takes us deep into the clinical trials industry as it brings together players separated by vast economic and cultural differences.

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The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy - New York as a Test Case - Bog af Lee Benson - Paperback

Jacksonian Democracy has become almost a commonplace in American history. But in this penetrating analysis of one state-its voting cycles, party makeup, and social, ethnic, and religious patterns-Lee Benson shows that the concept bears little or no relation to New York history during the Jacksonian period. New York voters between 1816 and 1844 did

DKK 694.95

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Cherokee Renascence in the New Rlic - Bog af William G. McLoughlin - Paperback

The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Rlic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and 'civilize' all Indians and to incorporate them into the rlic as full citizens. This title tells the dramatic success story of the renascence of the tribe.

DKK 599.95

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An Invitation to Modern Number Theory - Bog af Steven J. Miller - Hardback

In a manner accessible to beginning undergraduates, this book introduces many of the central problems, conjectures, results, and techniques of the field, such as the Riemann Hypothesis, Roth's Theorem, and more. Showing how experiments are used to test conjectures and prove theorems, it allows students to do original work on such problems.

DKK 809.95

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Aggressive Political Participation - Bog af Edward N. Muller - Paperback

Utilizing data from a survey of attitudes and behavior of more than 2,500 residents of selected rural, urban, and university communities in the Federal Rlic of Germany, Edward Muller attempts to formulate and to test a general multivariate theory about what motivates individuals to participate in aggressive political action. Since this kind of

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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 9. (English) - The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919 - April 1920. (English translation of se

Set in the turbulent post-World War I period, this volume finds Einstein awaiting news of the 1919 British eclipse expedition to test the general relativistic prediction of the deflection of starlight by the sun. It reveals facets of Einstein as he constructively participated in German and European scientific, academic, and cultural life.

DKK 864.95

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Faulty Foundations - Soviet Economic Policies, 1928-1940 - Bog af Holland Hunter - Paperback

Could the USSR have been prepared for World War II more humanely and efficiently? In this first integrated evaluation of Stalin's economic goals and actions, Holland Hunter and Janusz Szyrmer reconstruct and test Soviet results annually and by sector. Addressing historians, political scientists, and economists, the authors build a new, internally c

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Reclaiming the Game - College Sports and Educational Values - Bog af William G. Bowen - Paperback

Features evidence that recruited athletes 'underperform': they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades. This book examines the forces that drive this process and presents proposals for reform. It argues for re-establishing athletics as a means of fulfilling the educational missions of our colleges.

DKK 436.95

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Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868 - Bog af Susan B. Hanley - Paperback

According to the Marxist interpretation still dominant in Japanese studies, the last century and a half of the Tokugawa period was a time of economic and demographic stagnation. Professors Hanley and Yamamura argue that a more satisfactory explanation can be provided within the framework of modem economic theory, and they advance and test three imp

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Revolution in the House - Family, Class, and Inheritance in Southern France, 1775-1825 - Bog af Margaret H. Darrow - Paperback

To what extent did the French Revolution \revolutionize\ the French family? In examining the changes in inheritance laws brought on by the Revolution, Margaret Darrow gives a lively account of the mixed effects legislation had on families of this period. As a test case, she has chosen the southern city of Montauban, whose Roman-based law enabling t

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Messages from an Owl - Bog af Max R. Terman - Paperback

When zoologist Max Terman came to the rescue of a great horned owlet in a Kansas town park, he embarked on an adventure that would test his scientific ingenuity and lead to unprecedented observations of an owl's hidden life in the wild. In Messages from an Owl, Terman not only relates his experiences nursing the starving owlet, \Stripey,\ back to h

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The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World - Bog af Gary Gereffi - Hardback

Gary Gereffi first explains how foreign corporations took over the flourishing Mexican steroid industry in the 1950s and 1960s and thwarted the country''s later attempts to establish a more equitable distribution of industry benefits. In this valuable theoretical contribution Professor Gereffi uses the Mexican industry''s plight as a crucial-case test for dependency theory.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available..

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The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World - Bog af Gary Gereffi - Paperback

Gary Gereffi first explains how foreign corporations took over the flourishing Mexican steroid industry in the 1950s and 1960s and thwarted the country''s later attempts to establish a more equitable distribution of industry benefits. In this valuable theoretical contribution Professor Gereffi uses the Mexican industry''s plight as a crucial-case test for dependency theory.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available..

DKK 436.95

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After Utopia - The Decline of Political Faith - Bog af Judith N. Shklar - Paperback

A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth centuryAfter Utopia was Judith Shklar's first book, a harbinger of her renowned career in political philosophy. Throughout the many changes in political thought during the last half century, this important work has withstood the test of time. In After Utopia, Shklar explores the decline of political philosophy, from Enlightenment optimism to modern cultural despair, and she offers a critical, creative analysis..

DKK 242.95

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Microbial Life History - Bog af Steven A. Frank - Paperback

\This is a monograph about how natural selection shapes adaptation and biological design. It focuses on microbes, both because of their importance and because they are experimentally tractable, allowing biologists to test hypotheses about diversity and design that may not be possible in other systems. More specifically, comparison is key -- if scientists can predict how biological traits change when comparing different conditions, then they can reasonably say that they understand the fundamental..

DKK 391.95

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The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR - Bog af Robert J. Kaiser - Paperback

The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR is an important addition to the small library of essential works on the collapse of the Soviet empire. The first attempt to construct and test broad theoretical propositions about \place\ and \territoriality\ in the making of nations, it examines the critical social processes underlying the formation of nations and homelands in Russia and the USSR during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Robert Kaiser finds that for the most part national..

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Einstein's Jury - The Race to Test Relativity - Bog af Jeffrey Crelinsten - Paperback

The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy - New York as a Test Case - Bog af Lee Benson - Hardback

Higher Admissions - Bog af Nicholas Lemann - Hardback

The Mirror and the Mind - A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences - Bog af Katja Guenther - Paperback

The New Deal Lawyers - Bog af Peter H. Irons - Paperback

A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street - Bog af Andrew W. Lo - Paperback

Modernization and the Japanese Factory - Bog af Robert Mortimer Marsh - Paperback

Self-Fulfillment - Bog af Alan Gewirth - Paperback

Charter Schools - Hope or Hype? - Bog af Jack Buckley - Paperback

When Experiments Travel - Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects - Bog af Adriana Petryna - Paperback

The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy - New York as a Test Case - Bog af Lee Benson - Paperback

Cherokee Renascence in the New Rlic - Bog af William G. McLoughlin - Paperback

An Invitation to Modern Number Theory - Bog af Steven J. Miller - Hardback

Aggressive Political Participation - Bog af Edward N. Muller - Paperback

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 9. (English) - The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919 - April 1920. (English translation of se

Faulty Foundations - Soviet Economic Policies, 1928-1940 - Bog af Holland Hunter - Paperback

Reclaiming the Game - College Sports and Educational Values - Bog af William G. Bowen - Paperback

Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868 - Bog af Susan B. Hanley - Paperback

Revolution in the House - Family, Class, and Inheritance in Southern France, 1775-1825 - Bog af Margaret H. Darrow - Paperback

Messages from an Owl - Bog af Max R. Terman - Paperback

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World - Bog af Gary Gereffi - Hardback

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World - Bog af Gary Gereffi - Paperback

After Utopia - The Decline of Political Faith - Bog af Judith N. Shklar - Paperback

Microbial Life History - Bog af Steven A. Frank - Paperback

The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR - Bog af Robert J. Kaiser - Paperback

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