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Colin F. Camerer Behavioral Game Theory EN

With their colorful feathers, beautiful songs, power of flight, and dinosaur ancestry, birds are truly astonishing creatures. But did you know that the huge variety of known species includes daring acrobats, inconsiderate noisemakers, ruthless hunters, wonderful swimmers, and blazing runners? Or that the tiniest bird in the world measures just two inches long? Beautifully illustrated by Olivia Cosneau, Birds of the…

David J.T. Sumpter Collective Animal Behavior EN

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution across a range of species. Providing a synthesis of mathematical modeling, theoretical biology, and…

John H. Miller, Scott E. Page Complex Adaptive Systems EN

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems—whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies—present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex…

Dennis Paulson Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East EN

This is the first fully illustrated guide to all 336 dragonfly and damselfly species of eastern North America - from the rivers of Manitoba to the Florida cypress swamps - and the companion volume to Dennis Paulson's acclaimed field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of the West. Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East features hundreds of color photos that depict all the species found in the region, detailed…

Dennis Paulson Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West EN

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America. Dragonflies and damselflies are large, stunningly beautiful insects, as readily observable as birds and butterflies. This unique guide makes identifying them easy - its compact size and user-friendly design make it the only guide you need in the field. Every…

Benjamin Bolker Ecological Models and Data in R EN

Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques to analyze their own data using the programming language R. Drawing on extensive experience teaching these…

Douglas D. Davis Experimental Economics EN

Darren P. Croft, Richard James, Jens Krause Exploring Animal Social Networks EN

Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations. Exploring Animal Social Networks provides a practical guide for researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and…

Ellen Lupton Graphic Design Thinking EN

Creativity is more than an inborn talent; it is a hard-earned skill, and like any other skill, it improves with practice. Graphic Design Thinking: How to Define Problems, Get Ideas, and Create Form explores a variety of informal techniques ranging from quick, seat-of-the-pants approaches to more formal research methods for stimulating fresh thinking, and ultimately arriving at compelling and viable solutions. In the…

Patricia Geis Henri Matisse EN

Henri Matisse: Meet the Artist provides an overview of Matisse's artistic career, reflecting on each pivotal period, including sculpture, fauve paintings, his friendship w/ Picasso and his paper cut-outs. The Meet the Artist series is a whimsical exploration of famous artists through interactive pop-ups and lift-the-flaps, that will appeal to adults and children alike and is intended to teach children about their…

Olivia Cosneau In the Vegetable Garden EN

What's more fun or magical than digging in the dirt, planting and watering seeds, discovering the first seedlings of the season, and finally eating your own fruits and vegetables? Lovingly illustrated by Olivia Cosneau, this book is a colorful introduction to the magical world of the garden, including a range of fun activities, removable stickers, and a quiz. In the process, fledgling gardeners ages five and up…

Michael Woodford Interest and Prices EN

With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money-growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well. How then can pure fiat currencies be managed so as to create confidence in the stability of national units of account? Interest and Prices seeks…

Robert J. Shiller Irrational Exuberance

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008–9 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of housing, the post-subprime boom may well turn out to be another…

Colin Thompson Mathematical Statistical Mechanics EN

While most introductions to statistical mechanics are either too mathematical or too physical, Colin Thompson's book combines mathematical rigor with familiar physical materials. Following introductory chapters on kinetic theory, thermodynamics, the Gibbs ensembles, and the thermodynamic limit, later chapters discuss the classical theories of phase transitions, the Ising model, algebraic methods and combinatorial…

Douglas Thomas Never Use Futura

It's everywhere, including the moon (on the commemorative plaque left by Apollo 11 astronauts), Nike sneakers, the artworks of Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, and Jenny Holzer, 2001: A Space Odyssey credits, Domino's Pizza boxes, Absolut Vodka bottles, and Red Bull cans. Futura and its typographic offspring have been the face of presidential campaigns from Richard Nixon to Hillary Clinton. Indeed, Futura is one of the…

Patricia Geis Pablo Picasso EN

Pablo Picasso: Meet the Artist! takes young readers on an interactive journey through the remarkable life of the legendary Spanish painter. This engaging book uses a multitude of lift-the-flaps, cut-outs and pull tabs to explain how his art evolved over his lifetime-from his earliest painting at age seven to the great masterworks of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica. Readers are encouraged to make their own…

Scott R. Baker, Chris F. Wilkinson The Effects of Pesticides on Human Health EN

Pesticides are developed specifically for their ability to interact & interfere with a variety of biological targets. Because of the fundamental similarities of organisms at the subcellular level, selectivity is often difficult to achieve & unanticipated pesticide actions leading to a number of adverse health effects may result. Some occupational exposure to pesticides is unavoidable, even with strict adherence to…

Kenneth Pomeranz The Great Divergence EN

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of…

John H. Kagel, Alvin E. Roth The Handbook of Experimental Economics EN

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm EN

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions,…

Russell Roberts The Price of Everything EN

This book could change your life—reading it will give you a sense of wonder about the everyday marvels that are all around us.

Patricia Geis Vincent van Gogh EN

Vincent van Gogh: Meet the Artist! takes young readers of all ages on a colorful, interactive journey through the work of this revered Dutch painter. Three-dimensional pop-ups, removable artwork, flaps and tabs, and art activity suggestions and materials are among the many interactive components in the latest addition to the Meet the Artist! series. This book covers Van Gogh's artistic career, focusing on his time…

Eric D. Weitz Weimar Germany EN

Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements - and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history recaptures the excitement and drama as it…

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