Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david byrne

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  • 42 REASONS TO HATE THE UNIVERSE
    CHRIS FERRIE / WADE DAVID FAIRCLOUGH / BYRNE LAGINESTRA
    If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you… you were right! Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it's also a bit of an asshole. After all, remember that you are just a group of atoms structured in a specific way for barely long enough to try to understand this thing we call existence. Those atoms could just h...

    $202.00

  • COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    DAVID BYRNE / GILLIAN CALLAGHAN
    This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening social inequality, and impending social and ecological catastrophe wrought by glob...

    $979.00

  • INEQUALITY IN A CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CRISIS AFTER COVID
    DAVID BYRNE
    Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Widely acknowledged as the key driver of political discontent and social instability, economic inequality across high and middle-income countries is profoundly interconnected...

    $999.00

  • PRANKLAB
    CHRIS FERRIE / BYRNE LAGINESTRA / WADE DAVID FAIRCLOUGH
    Fun and educational science experiments to teach and excite kids about physics, biology, chemistry, and more—from the #1 science author for kids! What's even better than a practical joke? A super awesome science experiment that's fun! Your friends and family might be surprised at first ... until they realize they're learning about science too! Each activity includes: Step-by-st...

    $182.00

  • FAMILIES AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION
    JOHN BYRNE / DAVID A. SCHULZ / MARVIN B. SUSSMAN
    Originally published in 1985. This volume on household energy conditions considers the energy crisis in the United States and offers an important appraisal of the future of energy consumption by families and the family's adaptations to decreasing energy availability. The chapters in the first section investigate the cultural dimensions of energy use at the household level, look...

    $799.00

  • SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL
    DAVID OCKWELL / ROB BYRNE
    Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical...

    $779.00

  • INTERPRETING QUANTITATIVE DATA
    DAVID BYRNE
    How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do′s′ and `don′ts′ of effective quantitative research? This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurem...

    $1,099.84

  • COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
    DAVID BYRNE
    Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts before using them as a way of inve...

    $1,279.00