Take a look at the world's most inventive hybrid cars in How Electric & Hybrid Cars Work Discover how a hybrid engine is structured & how its different parts work the different types of hybrid car available how hybrid cars provide a green alternative to gas & oil powered cars & the revolutionary new hybrid cars that we could be driving in the future Explore the world's most revolutionary & exciting ecological developments in Eco Works This series for 9 readers examines how green technology is finding inventive solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing us today From sourcing sustainable energy & reducing our carbon footprints through to creating recycling processes & community gardens that provide our growing urban populations with green space & food find out exactly how & why 'eco works' ...

Taking a fresh approach to integrating key concepts & research processes this undergraduate textbook encourages students to develop an understanding of how ecologists raise & answer real-world questions Four unique chapters describe the development & evolution of different research programs in each of ecology's core areas showing students that research is undertaken by real people who are profoundly influenced by their social & political environments Beginning with a case study to capture student interest each chapter emphasizes the linkage between observations ideas questions hypotheses predictions results & conclusions Discussion questions integrated within the text encourage active participation & a range of end-of-chapter questions reinforce knowledge & encourage application of analytical & critical thinking skills to real ecological questions Students are asked to analyze & interpret real data with support from online tutorials demonstrating the R programming language for statistical analysis ...

In Ecology without Nature Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself Ecological writers propose a new worldview but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the 'nature' they revere The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living Morton sets out a seeming paradox to have a properly ecological view we must relinquish the idea of nature once & for all Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative & deeply engaging Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy culture & history he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future Morton develops a fresh vocabulary for reading 'environmentality' in artistic form as well as content & traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism From John Clare to John Cage from Kierkegaard to Kristeva from The Lord of the Rings to electronic life forms Ecology without Nature widens our view of ecological criticism & deepens our understanding of ecology itself Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damaged Morton sets out a radical new form of ecological criticism 'dark ecology' ...

Begon Townsend & Harper's Ecology has long been regarded as the definitive textbook on all aspects of ecology This new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject from the first principles of ecology to the current state of the field & aims to improve students' preparedness to address the environmental problems of the new millennium Thoroughly revised & updated this fourth edition

Includes:: three new chapters on applied ecology reflecting a rigorous scientific approach to the ecological problems now facing mankinddiscussion of over 800 new studies updating the text throughoutan updated user-friendly design with margin notes & chapter summaries that serve as study aids The resulting textbook is easy to use lucid & up-to-date & is the essential reference for all students whose degree program

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The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on microeconometric methods substantially revised & updated The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research cross section & data panel methods By focusing on assumptions that can be given behavioral content the book maintains an appropriate level of rigor while emphasizing intuitive thinking The analysis covers both linear & nonlinear models including models with dynamics andor individual heterogeneity In addition to general estimation frameworks (particular methods of moments & maximum likelihood) specific linear & nonlinear methods are covered in detail including probit & logit models & their multivariate Tobit models models for count data censored & missing data schemes causal (or treatment) effects & duration analysis Econometric Analysis of Cross Section & Panel Data was the first graduate econometrics text to focus on microeconomic data structures allowing assumptions to be separated into population & sampling assumptions This second edition has been substantially updated & revised Improvements include a broader class of models for missing data problems; more detailed treatment of cluster problems an important topic for empirical researchers; expanded discussion of generalized instrumental variables (GIV) estimation; new coverage (based on the author's own recent research) of inverse probability weighting; a more complete framework for estimating treatment effects with panel data & a firmly established link between econometric approaches to nonlinear panel data & the generalized estimating equation literature popular in statistics & other fields New attention is given to explaining when particular econometric methods can be applied; the goal is not only to tell readers what does work but why certain obvious procedures do not The numerous included exercises both theoretical & computer-based allow the reader to extend methods covered in the text & discover new insights ...

Hayashi's Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics It introduces first year Ph D students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through cointegration The book is also distinctive in developing both time-series & cross-section analysis fully giving the reader a unified framework for understanding & integrating results Econometrics has many useful features & covers all the important topics in econometrics in a succinct manner All the estimation techniques that could possibly be taught in a first-year graduate course except maximum likelihood are treated as special cases of GMM (generalized methods of moments) Maximum likelihood estimators for a variety of models (such as probit & tobit) are collected in a separate chapter This arrangement enables students to learn various estimation techniques in an efficient manner Eight of the ten chapters include a serious empirical application drawn from labor economics industrial organization domestic & international finance & macroeconomics These empirical exercises at the end of each chapter provide students a hands-on experience applying the techniques covered in the chapter The exposition is rigorous yet accessible to students who have a working knowledge of very basic linear algebra & probability theory All the results are stated as propositions so that students can see the points of the discussion & also the conditions under which those results hold Most propositions are proved in the text For those who intend to write a thesis on applied topics the empirical applications of the book are a good way to learn how to conduct empirical research For the theoretically inclined the no-compromise treatment of the basic techniques is a good preparation for more advanced theory courses ...

Now in its fifth edition Economic Approaches to Organisations remains one of the few texts to emphasize the importance of economic issues & developments in the study of organisations & management It explains in a non-technical way different economic approaches such as behavioural theory of the firm game theory agency theory transaction cost economics economics of strategy & evolutionary approaches This latest edition is packed with practical examples from real-world companies helping you to understand how the concepts relate to economic & organizational problems happening in the world today ...

For courses on economic development Accessible theory relevant policy issues & the latest data & research in the context of a thorough introduction to the developing world Economic Development
- the leading textbook in this field
- provides students with a complete & balanced introduction to the requisite theory driving policy issues & latest research Todaro & Smith take a policy-oriented approach presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates & country-specific case studies to see how theory relates to the problems & prospects of developing countries New to this edition Findings Boxes
- new intuitive introductions to important recent research Global Crisis
- up-to-date challenges & opportunities for developing countries Policy Analysis & case studies
- review great progress in many developing countries plus big challenges such as violent conflict & climate change; insights from comparative case studies such as Costa Rica Guatemala & Honduras




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The long-awaited second edition of an important textbook on economic growth-a major revision incorporating the most recent work on the subject This graduate level text on economic growth surveys neoclassical & more recent growth theories stressing their empirical implications & the relation of theory to data & evidence The authors have undertaken a major revision for the long-awaited second edition of this widely used text the first modern textbook devoted to growth theory The book has been expanded in many areas & incorporates the latest research After an introductory discussion of economic growth the book examines neoclassical growth theories from Solow-Swan in the 1950s & Cass-Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a discussion of extensions to the model with expanded treatment in this edition of heterogenity of households The book then turns to endogenous growth theory discussing among other topics models of endogenous technological progress (with an expanded discussion in this edition of the role of outside competition in the growth process) technological diffusion & an endogenous determination of labor supply & population The authors then explain the essentials of growth accounting & apply this framework to endogenous growth models The final chapters cover empirical analysis of regions & empirical evidence on economic growth for a broad panel of countries from 1960 to 2000 The updated treatment of cross-country growth regressions for this edition uses the new Summers-Heston data set on world income distribution compiled through 2000 ...

In this concise yet comprehensive history Heinz D Kurz traces the long arc of economic thought from its emergence in ancient Greece to its systematic presentation among the classical thinkers of the late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries to the influential work of scholars such as Paul Samuelson & Kenneth J Arrow With a keen eye for how economic insights are acquired lost & reborn Kurz focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life & the historical events that provoke different approaches & theories Over the course of this journey Kurz explains what Adam Smith meant by the "invisible hand"; how Karl Marx&s "law of motion" works in capitalist economies; the roots of the Austrian economists& emphasis on the problems of information incomplete knowledge & uncertainty; John Maynard Keynes&s principle of effective demand & economic stabilization; & the insights & challenges offered by growth theory welfare economics game theory & more He concludes with a deft summation of world economists& major concerns today & their critical relation to world events ...