books about: contingency

books about: contingency

books:

Contingency

The Didymus Contingency: A Time Travel Thriller

Jeremy Robinson

Breakneck Books, 2007

Great Book
I had bought previous titles from this author and really liked his work. This novel did not disappoint. Lots of action and thought provoking too. I have already pre-orded his next book.

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology ...

The MIT Press, 2003

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental ...

Applied Strategic Planning: How to Develop a Plan That Really Works

Leonard Goodstein, Timothy Nolan, ...

McGraw-Hill, 1993

Applied Strategic Planning by Leonard D Goodstein, Timothy M
In Applied Strategic Planning, the authors give a comprehensive step-by-step guide to conducting applied strategic planning. They clearly demonstrate organisations' need for strategic planning. The book is different from other strategic planning models in some ...

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, ...

Verso, 2000

better than most...
This book represents an attempt by (the) three social thinkers of our time to bring their differing views of what is to done together by beginning with what it is that they have in common, namely: Marx (and Gramsci), Lacan, and Derrida. Although all three critique the ...

After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency

Quentin Meillassoux

Continuum, 2008

A Great Work of Contemporary Philosophy
Meillassoux's first book is nothing less than a completely original and meticulously argued philosophical manifesto. Drawing upon the ontology of his teacher, Alain Badiou, Meillassoux aims to prove what was only implicit in Badiou's "Being and Event": the absolute ...

Mark Gonzales: High Tech Poetry

Mark Gonzales

Contingency Publishing, 2002

GONZ!
It's the GONZ!! The man is a living legend for goodness sakes. Everything that he does is awesome. I really don't need to say more.

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive
Mary Ann Doane

Harvard University Press, 2002

Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work ...

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

Cambridge University Press, 1989

A stimulating opportunity...
I've noticed a trend that various reviewers on philosophy books use this cyberspace as an opportunity to display their understanding and mastery over the work in question. This is, in ways, an interesting and useful phenomenon, but it can also be misleading. This is ...

The Didymus Contingency

Variance, 2005

Stunning Collision of Biblical History & Science Fiction
Whether you find yourself a believer of the Christian Bible or not, author Jeremy Robinson has crafted a sci-fi thriller that any history or sci-fi enthusiast will love. He has created a character, a quantum physicist named Tom, who has the brains, the ability and the ...

The Analysis of Contingency Tables, Second Edition (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
Brian S. Everitt

Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1992

Much of the data collected in medicine and the social sciences is categorical, for example, sex, marital status, blood group, whether a smoker or not and so on, rather than interval-scaled. Frequently the researcher collecting such data is interested in the relationships or associations between pairs, or between a set of such categorical ...

Contingencies of Reinforcement; A Theoretical Analysis

B. F. Skinner

Prentice Hall, 1969

A Very Important Book
This is one of the most important books I read in my intellectual development. I recommend to anyone who is trying to understand how behaviorism has contributed to a science of human behavior. It is widely believed that Behaviorism is dead, but it is, in fact, one of ...

On Aristotle's "Prior Analytics 1.14-22" (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
Alexander of Aphrodisias

Cornell University Press, 1999

Gleanings From The Sea: Showing The Pleasures, Pains And Penalties Of Life Afloat, With Contingencies Ashore
Joseph W. Smith

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...

Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses
Donna R. Childs

Wiley, 2008

Now in its second edition, Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best presents you with a structured, time-tested blueprint to help you evaluate your business in terms of its vulnerability and guide you through developing a cost-effective, individualized disaster and recovery plan. This book is an essential handbook for anyone who owns, or plans ...

Effective Classroom Discipline (Educating Our Children)

William Gladden Press, 2008

Effective classroom discipline is not some mystery or difficult approach to controlling behavior. Instead, it is rather straightforward. Effective classroom discipline builds upon the concept that it is possible to PREVENT most behavioral problems by establishing and maintaining clearly defined rules that are enforced in a consistent manner.