Category: Textbooks

The ebook, The Psychology of Micro-Targeted Election Campaigns, PDF, examines the psychology behind micro-targeted tactics used in election campaigning and the arrival of increasingly refined dynamic Agent-Based Models (ABMs). It discusses individual profiling, how data and modeling are used to enhance the effectiveness of persuasion and mobilization efforts in campaigns,

The late Navjot Sodhi envisioned this ebook Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropic (PDF) as a way to bring the perspectives of people who were actually working and living in the tropics to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics. 55 authors present their perspectives on the conservation

This much anticipated volume, Numerical Ecology with R 2nd edition PDF maps the connections between numerical ecology and its implementation in the ‘R’ language. Beginning with concise theoretical overviews, the authors go on to explore the methodology using applied and extensively annotated examples.

Informative and comprehensive, the thoroughly revised Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health, 5th Edition, (PDF) is an accessible overview of occupational therapy in psychiatry, offering key information on a range of international models of occupational therapy along with their practical applications. The fifth edition includes: New material on developing

Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes, (PDF) deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, system change towards autocracy. While these processes are increasing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a comparatively understudied phenomenon, especially its latest manifestations. In this volume, the authors provide one of the first cross-regional