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The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

By: Joan McGuire Mohr

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The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

By: Joan McGuire Mohr

During World War I, a specialized Russian battalion comprised of ethnic Czechs and Czech and Slovak prisoners of war--the Legion--became a pawn in an international game of power and deceit. The Legion's detour through Siberia became the greatest human interest story of the war, chronicled weekly in the New York Times and New York Herald. More than half of the Legion's troops lost their lives as the evacuation of Czech and Slovak POWs through Vladivostok precipitated the murder of the Russian royal family and forced the Legion to act as protectors of the Russian treasury and the Trans-Siberian Railway while the White and Red armies battled. For political purposes, tales of the Legion's odyssey have been buried or expunged. This volume offers the seminal account of this hidden yet epic journey, shedding light on a fascinating but forgotten facet of World War I.

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0786488514

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By: Joan McGuire Mohr

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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

A Data-Driven Approach

By: Joan-Josep Vallbé

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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

A Data-Driven Approach

By: Joan-Josep Vallbé

This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book explores both the cognitive mechanisms at work when actors decide, and the institutional mechanisms existing among and within organizations that make decisions fairly predictable. While a great deal of work has been done on how organizations act as patterns of events for (boundedly) rational decisions, less effort has been devoted to study under which circumstances organizations cease to act as such reliable mechanisms. Through an empirical strategy on open-ended response data from a survey among junior judges, the work pursues two main goals. The first one is to explore the limits of “institutional rationality” of the Spanish lower courts on-call service, an optimal scenario to observe decision-making under uncertainty. The second aim is to achieve a better understanding of the kind of uncertainty under which inexperienced decision-makers work. This entails exploring the demands imposed by problems and the knowledge needed to deal with them, making this book also a study on expertise achievement in institutional environments. This book combines standard multivariate statistical methods with machine learning techniques such as multidimensional scaling and topic models, treating text as data. Doing so, the book contributes to the collaboration between empirical social scientific approaches and the community of scientists that provide the set of tools and methods to make sense of the fastest growing resource of our time: data.

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245

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Springer

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9401794278

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9789401794275

War Stuff

The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War

By: Joan E. Cashin

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The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War

By: Joan E. Cashin

Focuses on the intense struggle over human and material resources between armies and civilians in the Civil War South.

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1108420168

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9781108420167

Places That Matter

Knowing Your Neighborhood through Data

By: Dr. Joan Ferrante

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Places That Matter

Knowing Your Neighborhood through Data

By: Dr. Joan Ferrante

Places that Matter asks the reader to identify a place that matters in their life—their home, a place of worship, a park, or some other site that acts as an emotional and physical anchor and connects them to a neighborhood. Then readers are asked: In what ways do I currently support—or fail to support—that neighborhood? Should support be increased? If so, in what ways? Joan Ferrante guides students through a learning experience that engages qualitative and quantitative research and culminates in writing a meaningful plan of action or research brief. Students are introduced to basic concepts of research and are exposed to the experiences of gathering and drawing on data related to something immediate and personal. The class-tested exercises are perfect for courses that emphasize action-based research and social responsibility. The book’s overarching goal is to help students assess their neighborhood’s needs and strengths and then create a concrete plan that supports that neighborhood and promotes its prosperity. Accompanying the book is a facilitator’s companion website to guide action-based research experiences, which includes rubrics that are aligned to common learning objectives and are also designed to make tracking and reporting easier.

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Univ of California Press

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0520965922

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The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922

Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

War Stuff

War Stuff

Places That Matter

Places That Matter

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