Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Edi Karni - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

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Under the Drones - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives.

Judging under Uncertainty - Adrian Vermeule - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this book, Adrian Vermeule shows that any approach to legal interpretation rests on institutional and empirical premises about the capacities of judges and the systemic effects of their rulings. He argues that legal interpretation is above all an exercise in decisionmaking under severe empirical uncertainty.

A Nation Under Lawyers - Mary Ann Glendon - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mary Ann Glendon's "A Nation Under Lawyers" is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance.

Under Household Government - M. Michelle Jarrett Morris - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Puritans were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many early American historians would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals that family members took on the role of watchdogs in matters of sexual indiscretion.

Under the Starry Flag - Lucy E. Salyer - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award“A stunning accomplishment…As the Trump administration works to expatriate naturalized U.S. citizens, understanding the history of individual rights and state power at the heart of Under the Starry Flag could not be more important.”—Passport“A brilliant piece of historical writing as well as a real page-turner. Salyer seamlessly integrates analysis of big, complicated historical questions—allegiance, naturalization, citizenship, politics, diplomacy, race, and gender—into a gripping narrative.”—Kevin Kenny, author of The American IrishIn 1867 forty Irish American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. They were arrested for treason as soon as they landed. The Fenians, as they were called, claimed to be American citizens, but British authorities insisted that they remained British subjects. Following the Civil War, the Fenian crisis dramatized the question of whether citizenship should be considered an inalienable right. This gripping legal saga, a prelude to today’s immigration battles, raises important questions about immigration, citizenship, and who deserves to be protected by the law.

China Under Mao - Andrew G. Walder - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong. “Walder convincingly shows that the effect of Maoist inequalities still distorts China today…[It] will be a mind-opening book for many (and is a depressing reminder for others).”—Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator“Andrew Walder’s account of Mao’s time in power is detailed, sophisticated and powerful…Walder takes on many pieces of conventional wisdom about Mao’s China and pulls them apart…What was it that led so much of China’s population to follow Mao’s orders, in effect to launch a civil war against his own party? There is still much more to understand about the bond between Mao and the wider population. As we try to understand that bond, there will be few better guides than Andrew Walder’s book. Sober, measured, meticulous in every deadly detail, it is an essential assessment of one of the world’s most important revolutions.”—Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement

An Econometric Model of Canada under the Fluctuating Exchange Rate - Lawrence H. Officer - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Between September 30, 1950, and May 2, 1962, the value of the Canadian dollar was allowed to fluctuate. This situation, in conjunction with an abundance of Canadian quantitative data, provided Lawrence Officer with a unique opportunity to test theories concerning an economy under the influence of a fluctuating exchange rate. In order to explain the fluctuations that occurred, Mr. Officer set up a model of Canada's economy for the relevant time period. In contrast to conventional models, the exchange rate is the key variable in the system and the foreign sector receives particular attention because of its primary role in determining the exchange rate.

Science under Socialism - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Taking advantage of documents never before available from the archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, this is the first book to examine the role of science and technology in the former GDR.

Shadows of Doubt - Rajiv Sethi - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and data on how people act and react, O’Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making.

Jottings under Lamplight - Xun Lu - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Lu Xun (1881–1936) is widely considered the greatest writer of twentieth-century China. Although primarily known for his two slim volumes of short fiction, he was a prolific, inventive essayist. These 62 essays—20 translated for the first time—showcase his versatility as a master of prose forms and his brilliance as a cultural critic.

Resources under Regimes - Paul R. Josephson - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its natural resources. In this comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by a humanized landscape.

Russia under Western Eyes - Martin Malia - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.

Under the Wire - David Paull Nickles - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ukraine under Western Eyes - Steven Seegel - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

As part of his personal archive, Krawciw’s maps were bequeathed to Harvard University upon his death in 1975. This book serves as both a catalog of his collection and a description of how the maps he collected serve as an invaluable source for Ukraine’s history and a symbol of Ukrainian national identity.

Embryos under the Microscope - Jane Maienschein - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Jane Maienschein examines how understanding of embryos evolved from the speculations of natural philosophers to bioengineering, with its life-enhancing therapies. She shows that research on embryos has always seemed promising to some but frightening to others, and makes the case that public understanding must be informed by scientific findings.

Worker Resistance under Stalin - Jeffrey J Rossman - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.

A Nation under Our Feet - Steven Hahn - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building.

Tapping the Riches of Science - Roger L. Geiger - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

American universities are under increasing pressure to maximize their economic contributions. This book offers a rigorous and far-sighted explanation of this controversial and little-understood movement.

The End of Globalization - Harold James - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The process of globalization seems irreversible. However, James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.

Anabasis - Xenophon - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Anabasis by Xenophon (ca. 430–ca. 354 BC) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries’ challenging “March Up-Country” from Babylon back to the coast of Asia Minor under Xenophon’s guidance in 401 BC.

United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation - Carl Kaysen - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Carl Kaysen offers a penetrating economic analysis of the issues in the civil antitrust suit brought by the United States Government against the United Shoe Machinery Corporation under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.

How to Win the Nobel Prize - J. Michael Bishop - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery.

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow - Kenneth J. Arrow - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The optimization of production under recursive conditions lends itself to general mathematical methods of dynamic programming and optimal control theory. This is the main theme of the essays included in this fifth volume of Kenneth Arrow’s Collected Papers.

Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays - Stanislaw Baranczak - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In essays on issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak explores the role that culture—and particularly literature—has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe.