Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: apter

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  • THE COMPUTER SIMULATION OF BEHAVIOUR
    MICHAEL J APTER
    This book, originally published in 1970, concerns the new technique of computer simulation in psychology at the time. Computer programs described include models of learning, problem-solving, pattern recognition, the use of language, and personality. More general topics are discussed including the evaluation of such models, the relation of the field to cybernetics, and the probl...

    $980.00

  • CYBERNETICS AND DEVELOPMENT
    MICHAEL J. APTER
    Cybernetics and Development deals with the ways in which growing and developing biological systems control themselves during development. It is a preliminary attempt to apply some of the insights and techniques of cybernetics to the problem of understanding such development and its control. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of cybernetics and its methods. Separ...

    $970.00

  • STRESS AND HEALTH
    SVEN SVEBEK / MICHAEL J. APTER
    In order to gain a clearer understanding of stress and its physical and psychological consequences, reversal theory takes into account the fact that many people need stress in their lives in order to operate. This text organizes stress and health research that has been undertaken within the reversal theory framework. The first two chapters outline and provide a focus about reve...

    $1,220.00

  • REVERSAL THEORY
    M. J. APTER
    First published in 1985. In the eight years since the publication of the first papers by Apter and Smith outlining the basic principles of the theory of psychological reversals, interest in the theory has grown rapidly. So within this book the emphasis is very much upon opening up fresh avenues and interests with a view to stimulating and guiding those psychologists who, wheth...

    $1,480.00

  • THE POLITICAL KINGDOM IN UGANDA
    DAVID E. APTER
    It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over time. Here David E Apter does that and more. In a lengthy new introductory chapter to this classic study of bureaucratic nationalism, he reviews the efficacy of the concepts in his original study of Uganda of almost a century ago, including some, such ...

    $1,120.00

  • POLITICAL CHANGE
    DAVID E. APTER
    Published in the year 1973, Political Change is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics. The problem in the social sciences has been to improve the quality of the relationship between the creative and didactic sides and produce more interesting and verifiable hypotheses and propositions. The literature dealing with this problem has grown and become increasingly technic...

    $1,420.00

  • ODUDUWA'S CHAIN
    ANDREW APTER
    Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples and offers a provocative rethinking of African heritage in Black Atlantic Studies.   Focusing on Yoruba histor...

    $560.43

  • THE PAN-AFRICAN NATION
    ANDREW APTER
    When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state ...

    $648.02

  • EL NIÑO SEGURO DE SI MISMO
    APTER
    Agotado

    $460.00