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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
This book is dedicated to applied gamification in the areas of education and business, while also covering pitfalls to avoid and guidelines needed to successfully implement for a project. Using different theoretical backgrounds from various areas including behavioral economics, game theory, and complex...
Approximation of Set-Valued Functions
Adaptation of Classical Approximation Operators
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book is aimed at the approximation of set-valued functions with compact sets in an Euclidean space as values. The interest in set-valued functions is rather new. Such functions arise in various modern areas such as control theory, dynamical systems and optimization. The authors' motivation also...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The goal in putting together this unique compilation was to present the current status of the solutions to some of the most essential open problems in pure and applied mathematics. Emphasis is also given to problems in interdisciplinary research for which mathematics plays a key role. This volume...
by Steven J. Brams
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
In this illuminating and instructive survey, author Steven J. Brams demonstrates both the insights and the pitfalls that can result from applying game theoretic models to the analysis of problems in political science. Using plenty of real-life examples, Brams shows how game theory can explain and...
The Reputational Premium
A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary...
Full Industry Equilibrium
A Theory of the Industrial Long Run
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This highly original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory of the firm that challenges many widely held views in microeconomics. It builds a bridge between the marginalist long-run theory of the firm and Sraffian theory to create a unified theoretical framework that...
by Claudius Gros
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Complex system theory is rapidly developing and gaining importance, providing tools and concepts central to our modern understanding of emergent phenomena. This primer offers an introduction to this area together with detailed coverage of the mathematics involved.
All calculations are presented...
JOHN DEWEY Premium Collection – 40+ Books in One Single Volume: Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics
Democracy and Education, The Schools of Utopia, Studies in Logical Theory, Ethics, Soul and Body, Psychology and Social Practice, Psychology of Infant Language, German Philosophy and Politics...
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "JOHN DEWEY Premium Collection – 40+ Books in One Single Volume: Works on Psychology, Education, Philosophy & Politics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The collection contains: Books on Education Democracy...
by Bruce Philp
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
This book examines the main areas of interest in Marxian economics, paying particular attention to class conflict, analytical Marxism and game theory. Very few books can claim to cover the areas that this book does with such clarity, academic rigour and originality. Its study of game theory and Marxism makes it a particularly unique book that will
by K.H. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Game Theory for Business: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central ideas and methods of business game theory, with over 35 diagrams to support the analysis.
Understand a business’s role, goals and incentives. Examine adverse selection, moral hazard, and a bait and switch...
Leadership Theory
Facilitator's Guide for Cultivating Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The facilitator's guide brings to life the content of the survey text, Leadership Theory. It offers instructive advice on how to prepare for the use of a critical perspective as well as providing practical resources to translate survey text content to practice.
The facilitator's guide consists...
The Varieties of Authorial Intention
Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, “The Intentional Fallacy,” and it deepened during the...
Feminist Evaluation and Research
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This thought-provoking book explores the 'whats,' 'whys,' and 'hows' of integrating feminist theory and methods into applied research and evaluation practice. Illustrative cases drawn from U.S. and international studies address a range of social and health issues. The book provides an overview of...
by Ferdinand E Banks
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book is an up-to-date primer covering the most important subjects in energy economics, with particular attention paid to oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy, and without an excessive amount of mathematics. The first three survey chapters constitute an introductory (and mostly non-technical)...