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by Guillermo Owen
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Game Theory has served as a standard text for game theory courses since the publication of the First Edition in 1968. The Fourth Edition updates several recently developed subfields. It adds fresh chapters on subjects such as games with incomplete information and spatial games. Owen has expanded "Two-Person...
Stability of Dynamical Systems
On the Role of Monotonic and Non-Monotonic Lyapunov Functions
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The second edition of this textbook provides a single source for the analysis of system models represented by continuous-time and discrete-time, finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional, and continuous and discontinuous dynamical systems. For these system models, it presents results which comprise...
Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement
A critical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement seeks to theorise and critique current trends in education through the lens of key ideas from motivational theory. Its purpose is to argue that current educational trends on a macro level are a significant threat to the provision of classroom practices...
by Daniel L. Stufflebeam, Chris L. S. Coryn
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The golden standard evaluation reference text
Now in its second edition, Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications is the vital text on evaluation models, perfect for classroom use as a textbook, and as a professional evaluation reference. The book begins with an overview of the evaluation...
by Suren Basov, M. Ishaq Bhatti
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book provides researchers and students with an understanding of the basic legal tenets of the Islamic finance industry, studying the real economic effects of those tenets using the tools of the modern economic theory. Split into four parts, the book begins with an introduction to the history...
by Alan Coddington
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The rise of game theory has made bargaining one of the core issues in economic theory. Written at a theoretical and conceptual level, the book develops a framework for the analysis of bargaining processes. The framework focuses on the dynamic of the bargaining process, which is in contrast to much...
Subgame Consistent Cooperation
A Comprehensive Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Strategic behavior in the human and social world has been increasingly recognized in theory and practice. It is well known that non-cooperative behavior could lead to suboptimal or even highly undesirable outcomes. Cooperation suggests the possibility of obtaining socially optimal solutions and the...
Strategy and Game Theory
Practice Exercises with Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This textbook presents worked-out exercises on game theory with detailed step-by-step explanations. While most textbooks on game theory focus on theoretical results, this book focuses on providing practical examples in which students can learn to systematically apply theoretical solution concepts...
Gribov-85 Memorial Volume: Exploring Quantum Field Theory
Proceedings of the Memorial Workshop Devoted to the 85th Birthday of V N Gribov
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Vladimir Naumovich Gribov is one of the creators of modern theoretical physics. The concepts and methods that Gribov has developed in the second half of the 20th century became cornerstones of the physics of high energy hadron interactions (relativistic theory of complex angular momenta, a notion...
Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions
Symbolic and Strategic Interaction in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s...
Foucault and School Leadership Research
Bridging Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research.
The...
by Leslie Paul Thiele
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of critical thinking and practical judgment. The field’s interdisciplinary strengths are deployed to grapple with emerging issues and engage afresh...
Knowledge, Class, and Economics
Marxism without Guarantees
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives...
Inventing Agency
Essays on the Literary and Philosophical Production of the Modern Subject
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Inventing Agency addresses some of the most central and pressing concerns in criticism, theory, and philosophy today. As new metaphysics of the realia of power and independently animated objects have replaced ancient conceptualizations of substance, being, and causation, the question of the "subject†?-of...