Akademisk

Akademias haller våkner til liv gjennom ekspertskrevne bøker som belyser alt fra undervisningsteknikker til banebrytende forskningsmetoder. Disse gjennomtenkte verkene utstyrer lesere med kraftfulle rammeverk for å forstå komplekse emner, enten det handler om å utforske vitenskapelige oppdagelser, analysere sosiale bevegelser eller mestre kunsten å undervise og skrive.

Akademisk Boksammendrag

Think

av Simon Blackburn • 1999

Your concepts are a house you never inspected. Philosophy walks you through the foundation.

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📚 Western Philosophy 📖 Introductory Philosophy 💭 Thought Experiments

Oppslukende

Think

Your concepts are a house you never inspected. Philosophy walks you through the foundation.

av Simon Blackburn 1999 312 sider

3.73

5 000+ vurderinger

📚 Western Philosophy 📖 Introductory Philosophy 💭 Thought Experiments

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

av John J. Mearsheimer • 2001

Why great powers cannot stop seeking dominance: anarchy rewards aggression and punishes restraint.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Offensive Realism 🗺️ Geopolitics

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Why great powers cannot stop seeking dominance: anarchy rewards aggression and punishes restraint.

av John J. Mearsheimer 2001 592 sider

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Offensive Realism 🗺️ Geopolitics

Simulacra and Simulation

av Jean Baudrillard • 1981

What's left of reality when the map no longer copies the territory but creates it?

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🏛️ French Theory 🔮 Postmodern Philosophy 🔣 Semiotics

Simulacra and Simulation

What's left of reality when the map no longer copies the territory but creates it?

av Jean Baudrillard 1981 164 sider

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🏛️ French Theory 🔮 Postmodern Philosophy 🔣 Semiotics

Sensemaking in Organizations

av Karl E. Weick • 1995

Organizations don't just respond to reality. They create it together, story by story.

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138

🏢 Organizational Behavior 🧱 Social Constructionism 🧠 Organizational Cognition

Sensemaking in Organizations

Organizations don't just respond to reality. They create it together, story by story.

av Karl E. Weick 1995 248 sider

4.07

138 vurderinger

🏢 Organizational Behavior 🧱 Social Constructionism 🧠 Organizational Cognition

The Posthuman

av Rosi Braidotti • 2013

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

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📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies

The Posthuman

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

av Rosi Braidotti 2013 180 sider

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500+ vurderinger

📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies

Research Methodology

av C.R. Kothari • 1985

The gap between a research question and a publishable finding, bridged step by step.

3.88

306

🧪 Research Methodology 📊 Quantitative Methods 📐 Research Design

Research Methodology

The gap between a research question and a publishable finding, bridged step by step.

av C.R. Kothari 1985 418 sider

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306 vurderinger

🧪 Research Methodology 📊 Quantitative Methods 📐 Research Design

Indian Polity

av M. Laxmikanth • 2009

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights

Indian Polity

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

av M. Laxmikanth 2009 1266 sider

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights

Teaching with AI

av José Antonio Bowen • 2024

AI sets a new floor for competent work. Education must now teach what AI cannot do.

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🤖 Ai In Education 💻 Classroom Technology 🛡️ Academic Integrity

Teaching with AI

AI sets a new floor for competent work. Education must now teach what AI cannot do.

av José Antonio Bowen 2024 270 sider

3.78

500+ vurderinger

🤖 Ai In Education 💻 Classroom Technology 🛡️ Academic Integrity

The Social Construction of Reality

av Peter L. Berger • 1966

The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.

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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🔍 Phenomenological Sociology

The Social Construction of Reality

The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.

av Peter L. Berger 1966 219 sider

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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🔍 Phenomenological Sociology

The Language of New Media

av Lev Manovich • 2001

Why a film is now a database, a screen is a control panel, and cinema became animation.

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🎓 New Media Theory 💻 Digital Culture 🖥️ Software Studies

The Language of New Media

Why a film is now a database, a screen is a control panel, and cinema became animation.

av Lev Manovich 2001 354 sider

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🎓 New Media Theory 💻 Digital Culture 🖥️ Software Studies

Spheres of Justice

av Michael Walzer • 1983

Separate spheres: why a just society walls off money, power, and honor from each other.

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🏛️ Distributive Justice 🏘️ Communitarianism 💰 Critique Of Markets

Spheres of Justice

Separate spheres: why a just society walls off money, power, and honor from each other.

av Michael Walzer 1983 364 sider

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🏛️ Distributive Justice 🏘️ Communitarianism 💰 Critique Of Markets

Principles of Economics

av N. Gregory Mankiw • 1997

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles

Principles of Economics

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

av N. Gregory Mankiw 1997 848 sider

4.11

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles

The Sacred Canopy

av Peter L. Berger • 1967

How religion turns human conventions into cosmic truths, and why that project is collapsing.

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📖 Sociology Of Religion 🏛️ Religious Studies 🏗️ Social Construction Of Reality

The Sacred Canopy

How religion turns human conventions into cosmic truths, and why that project is collapsing.

av Peter L. Berger 1967 240 sider

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📖 Sociology Of Religion 🏛️ Religious Studies 🏗️ Social Construction Of Reality

Policy Paradox

av Deborah Stone • 1988

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction

Policy Paradox

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

av Deborah Stone 1988 428 sider

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

av Edward Hallett Carr • 1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

av Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 sider

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period

Visual Methodologies

av Gillian Rose • 2001

Seven methods for interpreting images, one demand: know your own position and why it matters.

3.87

278

🎨 Visual Culture 🔬 Visual Methods 🖼️ Art History

Visual Methodologies

Seven methods for interpreting images, one demand: know your own position and why it matters.

av Gillian Rose 2001 304 sider

3.87

278 vurderinger

🎨 Visual Culture 🔬 Visual Methods 🖼️ Art History

The Craft of Research

av Wayne C. Booth • 1995

Finding a question worth fighting over, then building the case your reader cannot walk away from.

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📝 Academic Writing 🔬 Research Methods 🧩 Argumentation

The Craft of Research

Finding a question worth fighting over, then building the case your reader cannot walk away from.

av Wayne C. Booth 1995 317 sider

3.92

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📝 Academic Writing 🔬 Research Methods 🧩 Argumentation

History of Modern India

av Bipan Chandra • 2009

From Mughal collapse to British conquest: how a trading company remade a subcontinent.

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2 000+

🏛️ Colonial India 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Economic Imperialism

History of Modern India

From Mughal collapse to British conquest: how a trading company remade a subcontinent.

av Bipan Chandra 2009 352 sider

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🏛️ Colonial India 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Economic Imperialism

Letters to a Law Student

av Nicholas J. McBride • 2006

Why rereading your notes wastes time, and the question-driven method that earns top marks.

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1 000+

🏛️ Legal Education 📚 Law Students 🧠 Active Recall

Letters to a Law Student

Why rereading your notes wastes time, and the question-driven method that earns top marks.

av Nicholas J. McBride 2006 277 sider

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🏛️ Legal Education 📚 Law Students 🧠 Active Recall

Criminology

av Tim Newburn • 2007

Crime is whatever the powerful say it is. A textbook that rewrites the syllabus.

4.11

234

📚 Criminological Theory ⚖️ Critical Criminology 💼 White Collar Crime

Criminology

Crime is whatever the powerful say it is. A textbook that rewrites the syllabus.

av Tim Newburn 2007 1048 sider

4.11

234 vurderinger

📚 Criminological Theory ⚖️ Critical Criminology 💼 White Collar Crime

Practical Ethics

av Peter Singer • 1979

Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.

4.06

3 000+

🧭 Applied Ethics ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Ethics

Practical Ethics

Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.

av Peter Singer 1979 356 sider

4.06

3 000+ vurderinger

🧭 Applied Ethics ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Ethics

The Sociological Imagination

av C. Wright Mills • 1959

Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.

4.16

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📚 Sociological Theory ✊ Critical Sociology 🎙️ Public Intellectualism

The Sociological Imagination

Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.

av C. Wright Mills 1959 248 sider

4.16

3 000+ vurderinger

📚 Sociological Theory ✊ Critical Sociology 🎙️ Public Intellectualism

From Poor Law to Welfare State

av Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

3.69

318

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

av Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 sider

3.69

318 vurderinger

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

av Craig E. Johnson • 2001

Leadership brightens or darkens every life it touches. How to spot your own shadows.

3.64

339

🧭 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Organizational Ethics 🧠 Moral Psychology

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Leadership brightens or darkens every life it touches. How to spot your own shadows.

av Craig E. Johnson 2001 408 sider

3.64

339 vurderinger

🧭 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Organizational Ethics 🧠 Moral Psychology

Speech Acts

av John Rogers Searle • 1969

Language doesn't just describe actions. It IS action, governed by rules that create the game.

3.89

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 💬 Speech Act Theory 🏛️ Ordinary Language Philosophy

Speech Acts

Language doesn't just describe actions. It IS action, governed by rules that create the game.

av John Rogers Searle 1969 203 sider

3.89

500+ vurderinger

🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 💬 Speech Act Theory 🏛️ Ordinary Language Philosophy

From Plassey to Partition

av Sekhar Bandyopadhyay • 2004

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

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1 000+

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies

From Plassey to Partition

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

av Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 523 sider

4.20

1 000+ vurderinger

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies

Pioneering Portfolio Management

av David F. Swensen • 2000

Why endowments win: they own real assets, trade rarely, and treat Wall Street like a hazard.

4.16

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🏦 Institutional Investing 📊 Asset Allocation 🔄 Alternative Assets

Pioneering Portfolio Management

Why endowments win: they own real assets, trade rarely, and treat Wall Street like a hazard.

av David F. Swensen 2000 408 sider

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🏦 Institutional Investing 📊 Asset Allocation 🔄 Alternative Assets

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

av Immanuel Kant • 1998

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

av Immanuel Kant 1998 120 sider

3.83

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics

What Is This Thing Called Science?

av Alan F. Chalmers • 1976

From Popper's falsification to Kuhn's revolutions: why no single method can define science.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🤔 Epistemology

What Is This Thing Called Science?

From Popper's falsification to Kuhn's revolutions: why no single method can define science.

av Alan F. Chalmers 1976 266 sider

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🤔 Epistemology

The Globalization Paradox

av Dani Rodrik • 2010

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

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1 000+

🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics

The Globalization Paradox

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

av Dani Rodrik 2010 368 sider

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🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics

Ethics and Infinity

av Emmanuel Levinas • 1985

You are responsible before you are a self. The other's face upends philosophy.

3.88

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🌍 Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology 👤 Alterity

Ethics and Infinity

You are responsible before you are a self. The other's face upends philosophy.

av Emmanuel Levinas 1985 126 sider

3.88

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🌍 Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology 👤 Alterity

Play to Learn

av Sharon Boller • 2017

The step-by-step playbook for designing learning games that slash training time and boost retention.

3.95

🎮 Game Design 🛠️ Instructional Design 🎲 Game-Based Learning

Play to Learn

The step-by-step playbook for designing learning games that slash training time and boost retention.

av Sharon Boller 2017 168 sider

3.95

42 vurderinger

🎮 Game Design 🛠️ Instructional Design 🎲 Game-Based Learning

Understanding Analysis

av Stephen Abbott • 2000

Prove what calculus only computes: from the hole-free reals to the oddities of infinite sets.

4.49

476

📐 Real Analysis 📘 Calculus Foundations 🧱 Transition To Proofs

Understanding Analysis

Prove what calculus only computes: from the hole-free reals to the oddities of infinite sets.

av Stephen Abbott 2000 272 sider

4.49

476 vurderinger

📐 Real Analysis 📘 Calculus Foundations 🧱 Transition To Proofs

The Fundamentals of Ethics

av Russ Shafer-Landau • 2009

Three questions, twelve theories. Every one of them falters on the hard cases.

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⚖️ Ethical Theories 📏 Normative Ethics 🔍 Metaethics

The Fundamentals of Ethics

Three questions, twelve theories. Every one of them falters on the hard cases.

av Russ Shafer-Landau 2009 322 sider

3.73

500+ vurderinger

⚖️ Ethical Theories 📏 Normative Ethics 🔍 Metaethics

Small Teaching

av James M. Lang • 2016

A two-minute quiz beats an hour of re-reading: brief, research-backed teaching moves.

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🎓 College Teaching 🧠 Science Of Learning 📋 Evidence-Based Teaching

Small Teaching

A two-minute quiz beats an hour of re-reading: brief, research-backed teaching moves.

av James M. Lang 2016 272 sider

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🎓 College Teaching 🧠 Science Of Learning 📋 Evidence-Based Teaching

Documentary Storytelling

av Sheila Curran Bernard • 2010

From research to final cut: the craft rules for making nonfiction films that grip like fiction.

4.00

148

🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 📐 Narrative Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling

Documentary Storytelling

From research to final cut: the craft rules for making nonfiction films that grip like fiction.

av Sheila Curran Bernard 2010 352 sider

4.00

148 vurderinger

🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 📐 Narrative Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling

Living a Feminist Life

av Sara Ahmed • 2017

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

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📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics

Living a Feminist Life

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

av Sara Ahmed 2017 312 sider

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3 000+ vurderinger

📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics

Hard-Core Romance

av Eva Illouz • 2013

A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.

3.51

283

📚 Sociology Of Literature 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚡ Sexual Politics

Hard-Core Romance

A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.

av Eva Illouz 2013 96 sider

3.51

283 vurderinger

📚 Sociology Of Literature 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚡ Sexual Politics

e-Learning by Design

av William Horton • 2006

Stop building courses that just present slides. The activity-first system for e-learning that works.

3.89

219

🎯 Instructional Design 🏢 Workplace Learning 💻 Online Learning

e-Learning by Design

Stop building courses that just present slides. The activity-first system for e-learning that works.

av William Horton 2006 640 sider

3.89

219 vurderinger

🎯 Instructional Design 🏢 Workplace Learning 💻 Online Learning

I Am Gifted, So Are You!

av Adam Khoo • 1998

Ace exams without burnout: the visual memory and speed-reading system that rewires how you learn.

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📚 Study Skills ⚡ Accelerated Learning 📖 Speed Reading

I Am Gifted, So Are You!

Ace exams without burnout: the visual memory and speed-reading system that rewires how you learn.

av Adam Khoo 1998

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📚 Study Skills ⚡ Accelerated Learning 📖 Speed Reading

Mama Lola

av Karen McCarthy Brown • 2001

A religion of survival, not sorcery: the life of a Haitian Vodou priestess in Brooklyn.

4.04

1 000+

🥁 Haitian Vodou 🧳 Immigrant Religion 🌍 African Diaspora Religions

Mama Lola

A religion of survival, not sorcery: the life of a Haitian Vodou priestess in Brooklyn.

av Karen McCarthy Brown 2001 440 sider

4.04

1 000+ vurderinger

🥁 Haitian Vodou 🧳 Immigrant Religion 🌍 African Diaspora Religions

Multicultural Citizenship

av Will Kymlicka • 1995

Collective rights for minorities are not a betrayal of liberalism; they are its logical extension.

3.68

282

🏛️ Liberal Political Theory ⚖️ Minority Rights 🌍 Cultural Diversity

Multicultural Citizenship

Collective rights for minorities are not a betrayal of liberalism; they are its logical extension.

av Will Kymlicka 1995 290 sider

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282 vurderinger

🏛️ Liberal Political Theory ⚖️ Minority Rights 🌍 Cultural Diversity

Experience and Education

av John Dewey • 1938

Two principles separate experiences that grow a mind from those that just fill time.

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🏫 Progressive Education 🔍 Experiential Learning ❓ Inquiry-Based Learning

Experience and Education

Two principles separate experiences that grow a mind from those that just fill time.

av John Dewey 1938 96 sider

3.88

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🏫 Progressive Education 🔍 Experiential Learning ❓ Inquiry-Based Learning

How to Write a Lot

av Paul J. Silvia • 2007

Schedule four hours. Track every word. Ignore the mood. The academic writing fix that ships papers.

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📚 Scholarly Publishing 🏫 Faculty Productivity ✍️ Writing Habits

How to Write a Lot

Schedule four hours. Track every word. Ignore the mood. The academic writing fix that ships papers.

av Paul J. Silvia 2007 145 sider

4.07

5 000+ vurderinger

📚 Scholarly Publishing 🏫 Faculty Productivity ✍️ Writing Habits

Mapping Experiences

av James Kalbach • 2015

One diagram that puts customer actions and business processes on one page: the gaps become obvious.

4.11

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🗺️ Experience Mapping 🛠️ Service Design 💼 Jobs To Be Done

Mapping Experiences

One diagram that puts customer actions and business processes on one page: the gaps become obvious.

av James Kalbach 2015 379 sider

4.11

500+ vurderinger

🗺️ Experience Mapping 🛠️ Service Design 💼 Jobs To Be Done

Case Studies And Theory Development In The Social Sciences

av Alexander L. George • 2005

A single case, properly analyzed, reveals what regressions miss: the causal mechanism.

3.81

176

🔍 Qualitative Research 📋 Case Study Design ⛓️ Causal Mechanisms

Case Studies And Theory Development In The Social Sciences

A single case, properly analyzed, reveals what regressions miss: the causal mechanism.

av Alexander L. George 2005 331 sider

3.81

176 vurderinger

🔍 Qualitative Research 📋 Case Study Design ⛓️ Causal Mechanisms

Concise Inorganic Chemistry

av J.D. Lee • 1965

The electron runs the periodic table. Its few rules are the key to all 118 elements.

4.08

414

🧪 Inorganic Chemistry 🔬 Chemical Bonding 📊 Periodic Table

Concise Inorganic Chemistry

The electron runs the periodic table. Its few rules are the key to all 118 elements.

av J.D. Lee 1965 1032 sider

4.08

414 vurderinger

🧪 Inorganic Chemistry 🔬 Chemical Bonding 📊 Periodic Table

Philosophy of Science

av Samir Okasha • 2002

Atoms are invisible. Theories change every half-century. Why trust science? A compact guide.

3.93

3 000+

🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Reasoning 🔗 Causal Explanation

Philosophy of Science

Atoms are invisible. Theories change every half-century. Why trust science? A compact guide.

av Samir Okasha 2002 144 sider

3.93

3 000+ vurderinger

🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Reasoning 🔗 Causal Explanation

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

av Wendy Laura Belcher • 2008

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

4.12

500+

🖋️ Academic Writing 📚 Academic Publishing ⏰ Writing Productivity

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

av Wendy Laura Belcher 2008 376 sider

4.12

500+ vurderinger

🖋️ Academic Writing 📚 Academic Publishing ⏰ Writing Productivity

Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

av Bronisław Malinowski • 1922

A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.

3.76

1 000+

🏦 Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork

Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.

av Bronisław Malinowski 1922 614 sider

3.76

1 000+ vurderinger

🏦 Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork

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