Browsing School of Humanities by Title
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Introduction to Formal Philosophy
(Springer, 2018)In 1974, a wonderful little book came out entitled Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague, edited by Richmond H. Thomason. The book was a beautiful testimony to the fact that formal methods may indeed ... -
Introduction to Law
(Springer, 2017)The Introduction to Law that you are now holding in your hands is special in the sense that it introduces students to law in general and not to the law of one specific jurisdiction. It has been written with two goals in ... -
An Introduction to Zooarchaeology
(Springer, 2018)In 1950, there were few, if any, zooarchaeologists. Today the number of zooarchaeologists in North America is growing toward equal proportions with those specializing in the more traditional fields of lithic and ceramic ... -
Introductory Computer Forensics
(Springer, 2018)Internet technology is advancing at a speed beyond comprehension. With everadvancing Internet technology, we truly are living in a digital age. It will certainly improve our quality of life, as it can offer the speed, ... -
LATEX in 24 Hours
(Springer, 2017)The necessity for writing this book was felt long back, during my Ph.D. work, when I saw students and researchers struggling with LATEX for preparing their articles and theses. A very limited number of books on LATEX are ... -
Legal Dynamics of EU External Relations
(Springer, 2017)Harold Wilson famously remarked that a week is a long time in politics. Law would seem to be different, in that developments dating back several years can still be easily tagged as ‘recent’ by la doctrine. Nevertheless, ... -
LGBT-Parent Families
(Springer, 2013)In 2003, I began teaching an undergraduate course titled “Sexual Diversity in Society” in what proved to be a turning point year for North American struggles for LGBT family rights. Gay rights plaintiffs in the USA and ... -
Life Cycle Assessment
(Springer, 2018)It is an old observation that ‘What gets measured gets managed’, and that what is not measured or measurable runs the risk of being neglected. It is therefore important that we have tools for assessing the sustainability ... -
MATLAB for Psychologists
(Springer, 2012)Psychological researchers should possess several skills, and one of them is surely creativity. Creativity is needed at several key points of the research process, such as in creating experimental stimuli and planning and ... -
Motivation and Action
(Springer, 2018)This is the third English edition of Motivation and Action, an extensively revised version of the second English edition and fifth German edition, with four entirely new chapters. All chapters have been updated to ... -
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge
(Springer, 2016)The goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the epistemology of science. To the degree that it is successful, this book introduces readers to epistemology in general as well as the ... -
Perspectives on Elderly Crime and Victimization
(Springer, 2018)The populations of nations throughout the world, especially those economically developed countries of North America, Europe, and Asia, have become older. In the United States and Europe, the “baby boomer” generation born ... -
Philosophical and Mathematical Logic
(Springer, 2018)Having studied mathematics, in particular foundations and philosophy of mathematics, it happened that I was asked to teach logic to the students in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Radboud University Nijmegen. It was ... -
Philosophy of Race
(Springer, 2018)Many academic philosophers who are generally interested in social justice issues pertaining to racial and ethnic minority groups still do not clearly distinguish between Philosophy of Race and African American philosophy. And ... -
Policing and Minority Communities
(Springer, 2019)At the inception of professional policing in the 1820s, Sir Robert Peel emphasized the relevance of the role that the community should play in assessing the efficacy of the police and in setting the priorities for ... -
Political Social Work
(Springer, 2018)Both authors come to this book after many years both of professional practice in the political arena and of teaching and researching about political engagement. Shannon pursued a political social work career for over a ... -
Psychology of Perception
(Springer, 2016)This book is a translation of “Psychologie de la perception” published by the Presses de l’Université Laval and has the same name as a course offered at the School of Psychology of Laval University, Québec. It is not a ... -
The Psychology of Social Status
(Springer, 2014)There has never been a more exciting time to study social status and hierarchy. Over the past several decades, researchers from across the social sciences have come to recognize the importance, complexity, and ubiquity ... -
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
(Springer, 2009)Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. Theologians and religious practitioners have responded to this literature, producing a fascinating dialogue that deals ... -
Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
(Springer, 2019)Under what conditions do countries go to war? What is the influence of the 2008–2009 economic crisis on the vote share of radical right-wing parties in Western Europe? What type of people are the most likely to protest ...
