Consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry, and the dominant view of economic regulators agrees with them. Trumbull argues that this represents a misreading of the historical record and the core logic of interest representation. Weak interests, he reveals, quite often emerge the victors in policy battles, by forging unlikely alliances.
Management science approaches in the early 1900s were found to not work well for manufacturing tasks (Schachter 1989; Wrege and Perroni 1998), and they are likely to be even less useful for managing research.
Written by a seasoned teacher, researcher and teacher educator with over two decades of teaching experience, the goal of this book is to support teachers in developing tools for effective group work in their secondary mathematics classrooms ...
This is a stimulating and simple reintroduction to all the math we all learned in high school but have forgotten, using many examples of how math applies to the real world.
The only other statistician in the department was former Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) President Edwin G. Olds who, despite being overshadowed in numbers by mathematicians for decades, was able to effectively make the case ...
This is the amazing, inspirational story recounted in the pages of Strength in Numbers, recorded by the pen of the son, but spoken directly as the words of the father.The firsthand account follows Joe Walters, an ex-army paratrooper and ...
This is a gripping look at people and how they can—and must—change under the most dire of circumstances. And not always for the better.
10 nic context and four different indicators of the strength of mobilizing institutions . ... More specifically , I first use the level of party activity , which refers to the number of activities that the party chair reports engaging ...
Many creatures are helped when two animals refuse to conform to the laws of the jungle.
This is the story of how the Warriors came together to realize their potential, becoming a powder keg on offense and unleashing synchronized chaos on defense.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle •Chicago Tribune • The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s ...