Book Search

11. Rationality and Reasoning

    By Jonathon St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    This book addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. On the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species. On the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. There has been much debate...

    Published June 16th 1999 by Psychology Press
12. Representing the Nation: A Reader

    Histories, Heritage, Museums

    Edited by David Boswell, Jessica Evans

    Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation: A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation. With an international perspective focusing on the...

    Published April 21st 1999 by Routledge
13. Group Explicit Methods for the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

    By David J. Evans

    Series: Topics in Computer Mathematics

    A new class of methods, termed "group explicit methods," is introduced in this text. Their applications to solve parabolic, hyperbolic and elliptic equations are outlined, and the advantages for their implementation on parallel computers clearly portrayed. Also included are the introductory and...

    Published May 21st 1997 by CRC Press
14. A History of Nature Conservation in Britain

    2nd Edition

    By David Evans

    Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle. The conservation movement, despite enjoying its highest membership ever, has achieved only limited success over the last one hundred years of campaigning. Can conservationists now shake off their insular, disunited and negative image so...

    Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge
15. Sexual Citizenship

    The Material Construction of Sexualities

    By David Evans

    Published May 12th 1993 by Routledge
16. Cross-Over Experiments

    Design, Analysis and Application

    By David Ratkowsky, Richard Alldredge, Marc A. Evans

    Series: Statistics: A Series of Textbooks and Monographs

    Developing a model-based approach that enables any cross-over trial, of any degree of imbalance, to be analyzed both for direct effects and for residual effects, using consistent procedures that employ commercially available statistical software, this text offers a guide to the analysis of...

    Published December 21st 1992 by CRC Press
17. The Battle for Britain

    Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War

    By Mary Evans, David Morgan

    It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns...

    Published December 2nd 1992 by Routledge
18. Crime, Policing and Place

    Essays in Environmental Criminology

    Edited by David Evans, Nicholas Fyfe, David Herbert

    A comprehensive and up-to-date examination of a number of key crime and policing issues. Drawing on case material, the book examines the significance of spatial patterns of crime and the processes which produce them....

    Published March 4th 1992 by Routledge
19. Developing Countries and the International Economy

    Issues in Trade, Adjustment and Debt

    Edited by H. David Evans, David Greenaway

    Published August 21st 1991 by Routledge
20. Systolic Algorithms

    By David J. Evans

    While the architecture of present-day parallel supercomputers is largely based on the concept of a shared memory, with its attendant limitations of common access, advances in semicoductor technology have led to the development of highly parellel computer architectures with decentralized storage and...

    Published December 31st 1990 by Routledge