Product Description: This fully revised and updated second edition includes five new chapters addressing the nature of the eigenvector and its applications, including selected uses of the analytic hierarchy process in economic, social, political, and technological areas.

Product Description: Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in North America and Europe, but a comprehensive framework for these applications is lacking...read more

This is a fully revised edition of an anthology in comparative world religions. It surveys all of the major religious traditions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the African religions - as well as covering Zen Buddhism and the religious experience in America. The author allows each tradition to speak in its own voice, excerpting passages from its scriptures, prophets and distinguished authors.

Product Description: Solving complex policy issues requires an analyst to balance constituents needs with the political and economic realities of governance. In Guptas foundational text, each conceptwhether its research design, forecasting, or cost-benefit analysisis illustrated with recent cases such as the 2008 banking crisis and a GAO report on poverty, allowing students to master a skill and understand its real world application...read more

This is a fully revised edition of an anthology in comparative world religions. It surveys all of the major religious traditions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the African religions - as well as covering Zen Buddhism and the religious experience in America. The author allows each tradition to speak in its own voice, excerpting passages from its scriptures, prophets and distinguished authors. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This comprehensive introductory text is relevant to research methods in tradtitional disciplines such as political science, political economy, public administration, public policy, government relations and international relations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The authors explain the ways in which uncertainty is an important factor in the problems of risk and policy analysis. This book outlines the source and nature of uncertainty, discusses techniques for obtaining and using expert judgment, and reviews a variety of simple and advanced methods for analyzing uncertainty. Powerful computer environments and good graphical techniques for displaying uncertainty are just two of the more advanced topics addressed in later chapters. (view table of contents)