Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cambridge, philosophy, companions, plato, companion
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1992-10-30
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0521436109
ISBN-13: 9780521436106

Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato’s views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are

Author: Leo Jone
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cambridge, books, exams, book, student, progress, proficiency, study, new
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-03-04
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0521007895
ISBN-13: 9780521007894

This favourite examination coursebook is now available in full colour. Completely revised and updated for the December 2002 Proficiency exam specifications, New Progress to Proficiency continues to provide systematic and enjoyable coverage of skills and techniques for all five Proficiency papers. The 18 units are organised according to the topics specified in the revised exam syllabus. The new course retains the skills sections, comprehensive vocabulary and communication activities that made the original editions so popular. In addition it is packed with new and absorbing texts and original in

Authors:William A. Barnett, James Powell, George E. Tauche
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: econometrics, economic, theory, international, symposium, fifth, proceedings, semiparametric, methods, statistics, nonparametric
Number of Pages: 507
Published: 1991-06-28
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521424313
ISBN-13: 9780521424318

This collection of papers delivered at the fifth international Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics in 1988 is devoted to recent advances in the estimation and testing of models that impose relatively weak restrictions on the stochastic behavior of data. Particularly in highly nonlinear models, empirical results are very sensitive to the choice of the parametric form of the distribution of the observable variables, and often nonparametric and semiparametric models are a preferable alternative. Methods and applications that do not require strong parametric assumptions for their validit

Author: Denny Borsboom
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: contemporary, psychometrics, issues, conceptual, mind, measuring
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2005-07-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521844630
ISBN-13: 9780521844635

Is it possible to measure psychological attributes like intelligence, personality and attitudes and if so, how does that work? What does the term ’measurement’ mean in a psychological context? This fascinating and timely book discusses these questions and investigates the possible answers that can be given response. Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology. The theoretical status of classical test theory, latent variable theory and positioned in terms of the underlying philosophy of science. Speci

Author: Leo Jone
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cambridge, books, exams, book, student, progress, proficiency, new
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-03-04
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0521635535
ISBN-13: 9780521635530

This favourite examination coursebook is now available in full colour. Completely revised and updated for the December 2002 Proficiency exam specifications, New Progress to Proficiency continues to provide systematic and enjoyable coverage of skills and techniques for all five Proficiency papers. The 18 units are organised accordnig to the topics specified in the revised exam syllabus. The new course retains the skills sections, comprehensive vocabulary and communication activities that made the original editions so popular. In addition it is packed with new and absorbing texts and original in

Authors:Michel Deza, Mathieu Dutour Sikiric,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: encyclopedia, mathematics, applications, maps, faced, chemical, graphs, polycycles, geometry
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-07-14
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 052187307X
ISBN-13: 9780521873079

Polycycles and symmetric polyhedra appear as generalizations of graphs in the modeling of molecular structures, such as the Nobel prize winning fullerenes, occurring in chemistry and crystallography. The chemistry has inspired and informed many interesting questions in mathematics and computer science, which in turn have suggested directions for synthesis of molecules. Here the authors give access to new results in the theory of polycycles and two-faced maps together with the relevant background material and mathematical tools for their study. Organized so that, after reading the introductory

Author: Peter Gregory
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: australia, reporting, court
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2005-12-19
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521615119
ISBN-13: 9780521615112

Court Reporting in Australia uses the experience of reporters and subeditors to present a practical view of reporting on the legal system. Peter Gregory avoids the rigid fashion in which media law matters are usually described and, while he covers such vital areas as defamation and contempt, he focuses on the experiences and lessons to be learned from court reporters on the job. He highlights the problems and common mistakes likely to land journalists and media organisations in trouble. It features information and realistic advice from court reporters working for metropolitan media outlets as