Quantitative Anthropology

"Global Population Blow-up and After: The Demographic Revolution and Information Society" by Sergey P. Kapitza eBooks & eLearning

Posted by exLib at Aug. 16, 2012

"Global Population Blow-up and After: The Demographic Revolution and Information Society" by Sergey P. Kapitza
Report to the Club of Rome. Report to the Global Marshall Plan Initiative
GMP | 2006 | ISBN: 3980972356 9783980972352 | 273 pages | PDF | 5 MB

The development of a quantitative nonlinear theory of the world population is of interest for interdisciplinary research in anthropology and demography, history and sociology, for population genetics and epidemiology, for studies in evolution of humankind and the origin of man. The model also provides insight into the stability of growth and the present predicament of humankind, and provides a setting for discussing the main global problems.

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Politics and Practice in Economic Geography eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tot167 at Nov. 29, 2008

Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamie A Peck, Trevor Barnes “Politics and Practice in Economic Geography"
Sage Publications Ltd | 2007-08-10 | ISBN: 1412907861 | 336 pages | PDF | 1,52 MB

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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at Jan. 25, 2021

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Case Study Research: Principles and Practices eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tot167 at Jan. 16, 2009

John Gerring, "Case Study Research: Principles and Practices"
Cambridge University Press | 2006-12-11 | ISBN: 052185928X | 278 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

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Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan eBooks & eLearning

Posted by interes at Oct. 20, 2017

Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan by Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138290572, 1138290599 | 298 pages | PDF | 3 MB

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Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks & eLearning

Posted by libr at Aug. 15, 2014

Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Paul A. Youngman and Mirsad Hadzikadic
English | 2014 | ISBN: 9814463264 | 304 pages | PDF | 14,6 MB

Questions of values, ontologies, ethics, aesthetics, discourse, origins, language, literature, and meaning do not lend themselves readily, or traditionally, to equations, probabilities, and models. However, with the increased adoption of natural science tools in economics, anthropology, and political science—to name only a few social scientific fields highlighted in this volume—quantitative methods in the humanities are becoming more common.

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Humanities Data in R eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Underaglassmoon at Oct. 5, 2015

by Taylor Arnold (Author), Lauren Tilton (Author)
Provides a user-friendly beginners guide to the key concepts in the digital humanities by focusing on four major types of humanities data structures: networks, text corpora, geospatial data, and images
Assumes no prior programming experience
Suitable for a one-semester course at the university level for undergraduate, graduate and professional students, or as half or full-day tutorial or seminar

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