Game theory: A very short introduction
Game theory: A very short introduction
... eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm and a union negotiating next year’s wage are playing a bargaining game. When opposing candidates choose their platform in an election, they are playing ... Cleopatra played the courting game on a grand scale. Bill Gates made himself immensely rich by playing the computer software game. Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin played a game that...
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Quantum theory: A very short introduction
... PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes ART HISTORY Dana Arnold ART THEORY Cynthia ... acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0–19–280252–6 57910864 Typeset by RefineCatc...
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... Shaw ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew ... a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available now: ANARCHISM Colin Ward ANCIENT...
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Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... Colin Ward ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew ... Richards Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar Available soon: AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Richard Rathbone ANGLICANISM Mark...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43
Photography: a very short introduction
... be easier to identify a particular pathological condition from an abstracted image than from the contingent forms it actually takes. Photographs make available an archive of diseases unfamiliar ... less knowable in the absence of these images: our familiarity with tropical islands and deserts, anacondas and aardvarks, stems, in the main, from lens-based imagery. (Perhaps zoological and bota...
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Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction
... in initiating a nuclear attack. But, according to nuclear analysts, it’s not because they can’t. With a small quantity of enriched uranium, a handful of military supplies readily available on ... Internet, and a small team of dedicated terrorists, they could potentially assemble a nuclear weapon in a matter of months, and deliver it by air, sea, rail, or road. The impact of...
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The meaning of life: A very short introduction
... Sexuality was packaged as a profi table commodity in the marketplace, while culture meant for the most part profi t-hungry mass media. Art was a matter of money, power, status, cultural capital. ... the more eagerly as the public domain itself became increasingly drained of meaning. Fact and value seemed to have split apart, leaving the former a public affair and the latter a priv...
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