Game theory, particularly the use of repeated games, N-person games, and incomplete information games have been popular research techniques in political science, sociology and management, but difficult for new social researchers to use until now.
This book aims makes these topics accessible to all social scientists. Using a common social science game, Chicken, to illustrate the concepts, the book introduces readers to: games of incomplete information; how to build uncertainty into game theoretic models; the concept of Bayesian Nash equilibrium; and the role of repetition.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Core Rulebook (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Core Rulebooks)
"The graveyard is cold and still. Bright moonlight deepens the shadows. The silence is disturbed by a throaty moan. Breaking through the soft, recently packed earth, a claw extends, sharp and grasping. A sickly sweet stench rises with the corpse. Deperate hunger is etched on its cadaverous face- a hunger for your blood."
Now you can join the Slayer's world!
This comprehensive book contains: * An introduction to roleplaying and the Buffyverse. * A guide to character creation including the entire original cast for your quick-play pleasure. * A primer on magic mojo. * A guide to hotspots in Sunnydale. * Monsters and five Big Bads. * Blow by blow details on how to create Buffy roleplaying episodes. * A guide to Buffy speak to colorize your games.
All this and more is packed with vivid art and screen shots beautifully assembled into this full color book.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a disappearing way of life: fishingâ€"how it has thrived in and defined one particular town for centuries, and what its imperiled future means for the rest of the world.
The culture of fishing is vanishing, and consequently, coastal societies are changing in unprecedented ways. The once thriving fishing communities of Rockport, Nantucket, Newport, Mystic, and many other coastal towns from Newfoundland to Florida and along the West Coast have been forced to abandon their roots and become tourist destinations instead. Gloucester, Massachusetts, however, is a rare survivor. The livelihood of America’s oldest fishing port has always been rooted in the life and culture of commercial fishing.
The Gloucester story began in 1004 with the arrival of the Vikings. Six hundred years later, Captain John Smith championed the bountiful waters off the coast of Gloucester, convincing new settlers to come to the area and start a new way of life. Gloucester became the most productive fishery in New England, its people prospering from the seemingly endless supply of cod and halibut. With the introduction of a faster fishing boatâ€"the schoonerâ€"the industry flourished. In the twentieth century, the arrival of Portuguese, Jews, and Sicilians turned the bustling center into a melting pot. Artists and writers such as Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, and T. S. Eliot came to the fishing town and found inspiration.
But the vital life of Gloucester was being threatened. Ominous signs were seen with the development of engine-powered net-dragging vessels in the first decade of the twentieth century. As early as 1911, Gloucester fishermen warned of the dire consequences of this new technology. Since then, these vessels have become even larger and more efficient, and today the resulting overfishing, along with climate change and pollution, portends the extinction of the very species that fishermen depend on to survive, and of a way of life special not only to Gloucester but to coastal cities all over the world. And yet, according to Kurlansky, it doesn’t have to be this way. Scientists, government regulators, and fishermen are trying to work out complex formulas to keep fishing alive.
Engagingly written and filled with rich history, delicious anecdotes, colorful characters, and local recipes, The Last Fish Tale is Kurlansky’s most urgent story, a heartfelt tribute to what he calls “socio-diversity†and a lament that “each culture, each way of life that vanishes, diminishes the richness of civilization.â€
In her seventh year of teaching "Get the Life You Love" at Emory University's Center for Lifelong Learning, award-winning author and speaker Patrice Dickey has filled BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to Joy with the riveting stories of real people who have used the simple secrets she teaches to free themselves from shadow issues and self-defeating behaviors. You'll learn how a desire to be perfect can wreck your health, happiness and peace of mind--and some easy tools to get beyond perfectionism to true happiness. You'll see how tapping your creativity can save your life--and how to get your own creative juices flowing again. You'll discover what happens when you get rid of the 'Haunted Bed' in your life. Learn how Treasure Mapping and Personal Crests brought a new swimming pool to a cash-strapped graduate student; a career as a holistic chef to an empty nester mom; and peace of mind (as well as a husband and baby) to a perfectionist workaholic. Find out some of the many ways people make themselves sick every day, and how to recognize and correct these negative behaviors. Learn how dreams, intuition, hypnotherapy and other tools to access the subconscious can lead us back to our true selves. So far entered in five contests, the book has won Honorable Mention in the Inspirational Category of the 2006 Writers Digest Independent Publishers Awards, two Finalist Awards in the Best Books 2006 Book Awards in the Spirituality and Aging/Death & Dying categories, an IPPY Finalist Award in the Inspirational/Spiritual category, as well as First Prize for nonfiction from the prestigious Atlanta Writers Club (est. 1914). People are reading it more than once, and buying several copies for all their friends and employees. As one reader, a CPA, states: "I read it in two days at the beach--couldn't put it down! But there's so much meat I'm going back to read it a second time."
Paul Levinson presents the accuracy of McLuhan's thinking unavailable while he was alive, and shows him as a man struggling to communicate in an electronic pattern via the straightjacket of paper. Levinson also examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us
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Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
A work published by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA) and ACTAR for the Hayward Gallery exhibition in 2000.
