How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine and Healthcare 6th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1119484745 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 6th edition (May 6, 2019) Language: English 288 pages ISBN-10: 111948474X ISBN-13: 978-1119484745 The bestselling guide to evidence-based medicine and healthcare. Required reading in many medical and healthcare institutions, How to Read a Paper is a clear and wide-ranging introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare, helping readers to understand its central principles,…
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Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach by Marco Del Giudice, ISBN-13: 978-0190246846 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (August 10, 2018) Language: English 560 pages ISBN-10: 0190246847 ISBN-13: 978-0190246846 Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology through the lens of evolution is the only way to understand the deeper nature of mental disorders and…
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Mechanics and Physics of Solids at Micro- and Nano-Scales 1st Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1786305312 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley-ISTE; 1st edition (February 26, 2020) Language: English 292 pages ISBN-10: 1786305313 ISBN-13: 978-1786305312 Chronicling the 11th Mechanics and physics of solids at macro- and nano-scales symposium, organized by ICACM (International Center for Applied Computational Mechanics) in Paris, June 2018, this book addresses the breadth of issues raised. It covers a comprehensive range of scientific and…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks 1st Edition by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, ISBN-13: 978-0190228217 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 20, 2017) Language: English 1008 pages ISBN-10: 0190228210 ISBN-13: 978-0190228217 Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive political institutions, processes, and decision-making. Therefore, it is imperative for the study of politics to include network…
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The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government by Andreas Bågenholm, ISBN-13: 978-0198858218 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press (September 20, 2021) Language: English 880 pages ISBN-10: 0198858213 ISBN-13: 978-0198858218 Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions is crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being. The Quality of Government (QoG) approach directs attention to issues such as impartiality in the exercise…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership by R. A. W. Rhodes, ISBN-13: 978-0198778516 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; (July 26, 2016) Language: English 800 pages ISBN-10: 0198778511 ISBN-13: 978-0198778516 Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psychologists, Sovietologists, political anthropologists, and by scholars in comparative and development studies from the 1940s to the 1970s. Thereafter, the field…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology 2nd Edition by Leonie Huddy, ISBN-13: 978-0199760107 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (September 4, 2013) Language: English 986 pages ISBN-10: 0199760101 ISBN-13: 978-0199760107 Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology 1st Edition by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, ISBN-13: 978-0199585564 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (July 29, 2010) Language: English 896 pages ISBN-10: 0199585563 ISBN-13: 978-0199585564 Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science Association have engaged in ongoing research…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory 1st Edition by John S. Dryzek, ISBN-13: 978-0199548439 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (August 18, 2008) Language: English 883 pages ISBN-10: 0199548439 ISBN-13: 978-0199548439 Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Science 1st Edition by Robert E. Goodin, ISBN-13: 978-0199604456 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 2, 2011) Language: English 1291 pages ISBN-10: 0199604452 ISBN-13: 978-0199604456 Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative…
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies by Michael Freeden, ISBN-13: 978-0198744337 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (October 13, 2015) Language: English 752 pages ISBN-10: 0198744331 ISBN-13: 978-0198744337 This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that…
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Refining Biomass Residues for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts, ISBN-13: 978-0128189962 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (November 22, 2019) Language: English 642 pages ISBN-10: 0128189967 ISBN-13: 978-0128189962 The utilization of various types of biomass residue to produce products such as biofuels and biochemicals means biorefinery technology using biomass residues may become a one-stop solution to the increasing need for sustainable, non-fossil sources of energy and chemicals. Refining Biomass Residues for Sustainable…
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