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Authors: TIE EIPPER AND SCOTT EIPPER
With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.
It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera.
Authors: Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor
“Ethnography and Virtual Worlds” is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments.
Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds, and focusing on the key method of participant observation, the book provides invaluable advice, tips, guidelines, and principles to aid researchers through every stage of a project, from choosing an online field site to writing and publishing the results.
Author: Andrey Kurkov
This book offers a collection of Andrey Kurkov’s writings and broadcasts from Kyiv and provides a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war.
Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His work, “Grey Bees,” is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens.
Authors: R. Key Dismukes, Benjamin A. Berman, Loukia Loukopoulos
“The Limits of Expertise” reports a study of 19 major plane accidents in which authorities found crew error to be a causal factor.
The book examines how competing task demands, ambiguity and organizational pressures interact with cognitive processes to make all experts vulnerable to characteristic forms of error, according to a review on goodreads.com.
The book identifies themes cutting across the accidents, discusses the role of chance, criticizes simplistic concepts of causality of accidents, and suggests ways to reduce vulnerability to these catastrophes.
The authors’ complementary experience allowed a unique approach to the research.
Author: Raul Gallegos
Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude — the world’s largest reserves —an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business.
Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc.
“Crude Nation” reveals how mismanagement has led to Venezuela’s economic ruin and turned the country into a cautionary tale for the world.
Raul Gallegos, a former Caracas-based oil correspondent, paints a picture both vivid and analytical of the country’s economic decline, the government’s foolhardy economic policies, and the wrecked lives of Venezuelans, according to a review on goodreads.com.
Author: Larry M. Bartels
An apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy Erodes from the Top reveals that the real crisis stems not from an increasingly populist public but from political leaders who exploit or mismanage the chronic vulnerabilities of democracy.
In this provocative book, Larry Bartels dismantles the pervasive myth of a populist wave in contemporary European public opinion. While there has always been a substantial reservoir of populist sentiment, Europeans are no less trusting of their politicians and parliaments than they were two decades ago, no less enthusiastic about European integration.
