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Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel re ...

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The tools nonprofits need to measure the impact of their social media Having a social media measurement plan and approach can no longer be an after-thought ...

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American pro ...

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his ...

Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be ...

With easy-to-read text and full-color photos, this book discusses a variety of the techniques and technologies used for collecting map data, including surv ...

This book brings together two leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the shadow economy from a global perspective. Reviewi ...

This report examines and compares the content of laws prohibiting blasphemy ("blasphemy laws") worldwide through the lens of international and human rights ...

Offers an introduction in Applied Statistics focusing on some of the statistics of today's society--world wide population growth, economic developments, in ...

Despite large amounts invested in rural roads in developing countries, little is known about their benefits. This paper derives an expression for the willi ...

Astronomy is an observational science, renewed and even revolutionized by new developments in instrumentation. With the resulting growth of multiwavelength ...

The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a global statistical initiative to collect comparative price data to estimate Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs ...

This volume presents the most recent achievements in risk measurement and management, as well as regulation of the financial industry, with contributions f ...

Challenges widely held beliefs regarding the current environmental situation, discussing why there is cause for optimism and the need to prioritize resourc ...

Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions presents new insights into the causes, mechanisms and resu ...

Using the Ricardian approach (a cross sectional analysis of farm performance across different climate zones), this report examines the impact of climate ch ...

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American pro ...

This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance ...

Four men who are related to each other but became estranged during World War II are reunited in Rome after the war. ...

Long trackways, stone rows, circles, standing stones, and huge earthworks may be found all over Britain, monuments dating back well over 4000 years. The au ...

Base your business decisions on up-to-the-minute "snapshots" of your company's performance. Because they can be customized to track indicators specific to ...

Equality of opportunity is about levelling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not i ...

Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agend ...

Efforts to establish the measurement and control of sustainability have produced notable tools, but those instruments lack applicability in practice. Incre ...

"In this volume, a group of leading philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and policy scholars continue a twenty-year discussion of philosophical quest ...

An Analytical Approach to Assessing Social Protection Effectiveness provides the conceptual and analytical framework for assessing social protection and la ...

Simple numerical measures of the minimum wage may offer deceptive indicators of its impact. Alternative measures, such as kernel density or cumulative dist ...

Today’s production processes are fragmented across countries and industries. Intangibles play an important role, but their measurement is elusive. This p ...

Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology, with 3 volumes comprehensively coveri ...

One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “The perfect riveting summer read!”—BookBub “Cleeton's beach reads are often lit by the sun ...

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In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s firs ...

The epic story of how the gigantic land of America acquired its unique shape across 3000 miles of territory, and how the largest land survey in history pav ...

In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his prin ...

The tools nonprofits need to measure the impact of their social media Having a social media measurement plan and approach can no longer be an after-thought ...

The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing i ...

How do you measure the size of the planet you're standing on? "Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question. ...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about the three sons of a lost father. Arthur Friedland is ...