LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael reiss

9 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael reiss

  • The Place of Ethics in Science Education
    Amanda McCrory / Michael J. Reiss
    Science education, particularly school science education, has long had an uneasy relationship with ethics, being unsure whether to embrace ethics or leave it to others. In this book, the authors argue that while the methods of science and of ethics are very different, ethics plays a key role in how science is undertaken and used. And so, ethics has a central place in science ed...
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    44,77 €

  • RETHINKING BIOLOGY
    FRASER WATTS & HARRIS W MICHAEL J REISS / REISS MICHAEL J
    Biologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand, there is necessarily an effort to drill down to the lowest possible level to explain what is happening in whatever is being studied. That involves looking at how higher-level processes arise from lower level ones. On the other hand, there is a need to consider how the broader context...
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    40,48 €

  • Islam and Health Policies Related to HIV Prevention in Malaysia
    Michael J. Reiss / Michael JReiss / Sima Barmania
    This salient text presents a culturally aware public health approach to the HIV epidemic in Malaysia, a country emblematic of the Muslim world’s response to the crisis. It explores complex interactions of religion with health as a source of coping as well as stigma and denial, particularly as Islam plays a central role in Malaysian culture, politics, and policy. At the heart of...
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    67,16 €

  • Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values
    Michael Thomas / Rolf-Dieter Reiss
    The statistical analysis of extreme data is important for various disciplines, including hydrology, insurance, finance, engineering and environmental sciences. This book provides a self-contained introduction to the parametric modeling, exploratory analysis and statistical interference for extreme values.The entire text of this third edition has been thoroughly updated and rear...
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    47,63 €

  • Laws of Small Numbers
    Jürg Hüsler / Michael Falk / Rolf-Dieter Reiss
    Since the publication of the first edition of this seminar book in 1994, the theory and applications of extremes and rare events have enjoyed an enormous and still increasing interest. The intention of the book is to give a mathematically oriented development of the theory of rare events underlying various applications. This characteristic of the book was strengthened in the se...
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    157,37 €

  • Improving Nature?
    Michael J. Reiss / Michael JReiss / Roger Straughan
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    38,15 €

  • Behaviour
    Michael Dockery / Michael Reiss
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    79,38 €

  • The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction
    M. J. Reiss / Michael J. Reiss / Michael JReiss / MJReiss
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    57,02 €

  • Behaviour and Social Organisation
    Harriet Sants / Michael Reiss
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    51,25 €