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An IntroductionThis book introduces the specific statistical methods and models involved in data mining, targeting students and professionals with a a basic knowledge of statistical reasoning....

Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud ForestThe Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 30 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the...

A collection of essays presenting new analyses of data and evidence for population and settlement patterns, particularly urbanization, in the Mediterranean world from 100 BC to AD 350....

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Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems.    Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'. Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on...

The Performance of Politics develops a new way of looking at democratic struggles for big time power by explaining and analysing the 2008 Presidential campaign in the United States. Through a series of simple but telling concepts about meaning and performance in public life, Jeffrey Alexander argues that images, emotion, and performance are the...