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- Game Theory Relaunched
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Hardy Hanappi
ISBN 978-953-51-1078-1
344 pages, March, 2013
Downloads: 765
- The game is on. Do you know how to play? Game theory sets out to explore what can be said about making decisions which go beyond accepting the rules of a game. Since 1942, a well elaborated mathematical apparatus has been developed to do so; but ther ...
- New Knowledge in a New Era of Global ...
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Piotr Pachura
ISBN 978-953-307-501-3
354 pages, August, 2011
Downloads: 4964
- To better understand the contemporary world, the world of innovation and technology, science should try to synthesize and assimilate social science in the development of our civilization. Does the new era require new knowledge? Does the age of glob ...
- Products and Services; from R&D to F ...
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Igor Fuerstner
ISBN 978-953-307-211-1
422 pages, November, 2010
Downloads: 5779
- Today’s global economy offers more opportunities, but is also more complex and competitive than ever before. This fact leads to a wide range of research activity in different fields of interest, especially in the so-called high-tech sectors. T ...
- Application of Geographic Informatio ...
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Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
ISBN 978-953-51-0824-5
372 pages, October, 2012
Downloads: 1390
- The importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can hardly be overemphasized in today’s academic and professional arena. More professionals and academics have been using GIS than ever – urban & regional planners, civil engineers, geographe ...
- Advances in Econometrics - Theory an ...
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Miroslav Verbic
ISBN 978-953-307-503-7
116 pages, July, 2011
Downloads: 3883
- Econometrics is becoming a highly developed and highly mathematicized array of its own sub disciplines, as it should be, as economies are becoming increasingly complex, and scientific economic analyses require progressively thorough knowledge of soli ...
- Psychology - Selected Papers
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Gina Rossi
ISBN 978-953-51-0587-9
330 pages, May, 2012
Downloads: 2014
- This book represents a selection of chapters that address several topics from the broad domains of psychology: alcoholism, clinical interventions, treatment of depression, personality psychology, qualitative research methods in psychology, and social ...
- Risk Management - Current Issues and ...
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Nerija Banaitiene
ISBN 978-953-51-0747-7
584 pages, September, 2012
Downloads: 1301
- Every business and decision involves a certain amount of risk. Risk might cause a loss to a company. This does not mean, however, that businesses cannot take risks. As disengagement and risk aversion may result in missed business opportunities, which ...
- Current Topics in Children's Learnin ...
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Heidi Kloos, Bradley J. Morris and Joseph L. Amaral
ISBN 978-953-51-0855-9
150 pages, November, 2012
Downloads: 935
- As a whole, the essays in this book address theoretical and empirical issues related to children's learning and cognition. The first essay, titled Learning in Cognitive Niches, treats the process of sense making on a theoretical level, discussing the ...
- Time Management
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Todor Stoilov
ISBN 978-953-51-0335-6
106 pages, March, 2012
Downloads: 1926
- The time management is worthy goal of many human activities. It concerns variety problems related to goals definition, assessment of available resources, control of management policies, scheduling of decisions. This book is an attempt to illustrate t ...
- Theoretical and Methodological Appro ...
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Asunción López-Varela
ISBN 978-953-51-0687-6
392 pages, August, 2012
Downloads: 1209
- This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst t ...
- Business Dynamics in the 21st Century
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Chee-Heong Quah and Ong Lin Dar
ISBN 978-953-51-0628-9
260 pages, May, 2012
Downloads: 1495
- In this 21st century of opportunity and turbulence, business firms need to equip themselves with new competencies that were never thought of before. For this reason, this book is timely as it introduces new insights into new problems in the aspects o ...
- Human Development - Different Perspe ...
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Maria Lucia Seidl-de-Moura
ISBN 978-953-51-0610-4
110 pages, May, 2012
Downloads: 1465
- Human development has different meanings depending on the area we focus on. To the psychologists it is the ontogenetic process of individual development. It considers systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of thei ...
- Distance Education
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Paul Birevu Muyinda
ISBN 978-953-51-0756-9
254 pages, September, 2012
Downloads: 979
- Education has become the number one demanded commodity for social and economic transformation for both developing and developed economies. Thus the number of persons going and returning to school has become too big to be handled by existing brick and ...
- Archaeology, New Approaches in Theor ...
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Imma Ollich-Castanyer
ISBN 978-953-51-0590-9
292 pages, May, 2012
Downloads: 1455
- The contents of this book show the implementation of new methodologies applied to archaeological sites. Chapters have been grouped in four sections: New Approaches About Archaeological Theory and Methodology; The Use of Geophysics on Archaeological F ...
- Social Welfare
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Rosario Laratta
ISBN 978-953-51-0208-3
216 pages, March, 2012
Downloads: 1643
- "Social Welfare" offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics. Its interdisciplinary approach and comparative perspective promote examination of the most pressing social wel ...
- Entrepreneurship - Creativity and In ...
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Thierry Burger-Helmchen
ISBN 978-953-51-0069-0
190 pages, February, 2012
Downloads: 1642
- What are the differences between an entrepreneur and a manager? According to Schumpeter, the main difference lies in the entrepreneur's ideas, creativity, and vision of the world. These differences enable him to create new combinations, to change exi ...
- Approaches to Disaster Management - ...
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John Tiefenbacher
ISBN 978-953-51-1093-4
217 pages, April, 2013
Downloads: 210
- Approaches to Disaster Management regards critical disaster management issues. Ten original research reports by international scholars centered on disaster management are organized into three general areas of hazards and disaster management. The fi ...
- Learning Disabilities
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Wichian Sittiprapaporn
ISBN 978-953-51-0269-4
364 pages, March, 2012
Downloads: 1526
- Learning disability is a classification that includes several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner. Depending on the type and severity of the disability, interventions may be used to help the individual learn strate ...
- Globalization and Responsibility
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Zlatan Delic
ISBN 978-953-51-0655-5
166 pages, June, 2012
Downloads: 1135
- The book "Globalization and Responsibility" consists of 8 chapters. The chapters in the book offer a decentered and dynamic terminology. They show that globalization consists of not only an objective process, but also of a lot of statements that defi ...
- Globalization - Today, Tomorrow
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Kent G. Deng
ISBN 978-953-307-192-3
160 pages, October, 2010
Downloads: 3104
- This is a collective volume on present-day globalisation with nine chapters from authors of several academic disciplines. It covers wide aspects, ranging from the nature, impact, challenges and implications of globalisation to responses from a countr ...