1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394477903316

Autore

Moore Jonas, Sir, <1617-1679.>

Titolo

A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling [[electronic resource] ] : Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c. By Sir Jonas Moore Knight, late Surveyor General of His Majesties ordinance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1693

Edizione

[The third edition, with many large additions.]

Descrizione fisica

[24], 120, [180] p., [2] plates (one folded) : ill. (metal cut)

Altri autori (Persone)

BriggsHenry <1561-1630.>

HarfordRobert <fl. 1677-1681.>

Soggetti

Mathematics

Mathematical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: R.H., i.e. Robert Harford.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Variant: title in an earlier state, with "fortification, and gunnery" and "uuiversal".

Ldw Copy lacks final leaf.

Reproduction of the original in Dr. Williams' Library, London.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0037



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777620903321

Titolo

Heuristics and the law / / edited by G. Gigerenzer and C. Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press, ©2006

ISBN

0-262-29340-4

1-282-09741-5

9786612097416

0-262-27382-9

1-4294-1609-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Collana

[Dahlem workshop reports]

Altri autori (Persone)

GigerenzerGerd

EngelChristoph <1956->

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Methodology

Heuristic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Report of the 94th Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law, Berlin, June 6-11, 2004"--Page ii.

Series from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

DahlemWorkshops; List of Participants; Preface; 1 Law and Heuristics; 2 Heuristics; 3 The Problems with Heuristics for Law; 4 Social Dilemmas Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective; 5 Heuristics inside the Firm; 6 Group Report: Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?; 7 The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules; 8 Bottom-up versus Top-down Lawmaking; 9 Evolutionary Psychology,Moral Heuristics, and the Law; 10 The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Heuristics That Influence Lawmaking; 11 Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Making Law?; 12 Heuristics for Applying Laws to Facts

13 Heuristics in Procedural Law14 Train Our Jurors; 15 Rules of Evidence as Heuristics-Heuristics as Rules of Evidence; 16 Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Litigation?; 17 Adapt or Optimize?; 18 Do Legal Rules Rule Behavior?; 19 ShouldWe Use Decision Aids or Gut Feelings?; 20 Law, Information, and Choice; 21 Group Report: How Do Heuristics Mediate the Impact of Law on Behavior?;



Author Index; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689502203321

Titolo

Agriculture in rural communities, drafting and implementation of a new farm bill : hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, August 18, 2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 88 p.)

Soggetti

Agricultural credit - Iowa

Rural development - Iowa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia