A crucial statistical technique for detecting structural breaks within datasets, applicable in diverse fields such as finance and weather forecasting....Lasīt vairāk
This book shows how social work can be an agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and reinforcing socioeconomic inequalities, political instability, ant...Lasīt vairāk
This book covers the development of methods for detection and estimation of changes in complex systems. These systems are generally described by nonstationary stochastic models, which comprise both static and dynamic regimes, linear and nonlinear dy...Lasīt vairāk
Translating Change explores and analyses the impact of changes in society, culture and language on the translation and interpreting process and product. This innovative textbook is key reading for both students and translators or interpreters, in tr...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a holistic and systemic approach to both studying and solving wicked problems. Within the chapters of this book, macro-social marketing approaches to analysing and defining wicked problems, to identifying stakeholders and potentia...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the design, communication and implementation of social change programmes aimed at solving various social problems, from reducing health-risk behaviour to green consumption or financial literacy. Examining the application of social...Lasīt vairāk
This book represents a truly innovative and empowering approach to social problems. Instead of focusing solely on a seemingly tireless list of major problems, Sara Towe Horsfall considers how select key issues can be solved and pays particular atten...Lasīt vairāk
American Utopia maps the pitfalls prosocial reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four modern utopias by Thomas M. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, it interrogates the as...Lasīt vairāk
Print media have been used throughout the twentieth century to promote social and political activism. At a time when the golden age of print appears to be ending, Modern Print Activism in the United States argues that print activism should be studie...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Sep-2015, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119172321)
With so many social challenges facing our world, trying to effect change feels daunting. The problems are complex, the politics murky, and the players innumerable. Yet, every day there are regular heroes making a significant impact on our most intra...Lasīt vairāk
Ekins combines a compendium of our planets greatest ills with stirring, real-life examples of people breaking out of old moulds to become practical problem solvers....Lasīt vairāk
