The mathematical theory of games has as its purpose the analysis of a wide range of competitive situations. These include most of the recreations which people usually call "games" such as chess, poker, bridge, backgam- mon, baseball, and so forth, but also contests between companies, military forces, and nations. For the purposes of developing the theory, all these competitive situations are called games. The analysis of games has two goals. First, there is the descriptive goal of understanding why the parties ("players") in competitive situations behave as they do. The second is the more...
The mathematical theory of games has as its purpose the analysis of a wide range of competitive situations. These include most of the recreations whic...
Recent years have seen major developments in our understanding of how memories works. Aspects of Memory gives a clear introduction by some of the world's leading experts. The first two chapters of set past theorising about memory in an historical context and identify the major aspects of memory to be captured by any theoretical account. Later chapters go on to discuss theoretical accounts of working memory, the development of memory, implicity memory, and context-dependent memory. A final section discusses the respective strengths and problems of naturalistic and laboratory...
Recent years have seen major developments in our understanding of how memories works. Aspects of Memory gives a clear introduction by some of...
Baseball seems tailor-made for the historian, yet even today, after almost a century and a half of organized play, baseball's origins remain unclear. Most accounts focus on Eastern teams and the advent of professionals, but how the game spread across a predominantly rural America to become our national pastime is a question still largely unresolved.
In this well-researched study of Michigan baseball from the 1830s to the 1870s, baseball scholar Peter Morris offers many answers. Drawing on such sources as personal memoirs, period photographs, and an extensive, often hilarious variety...
Baseball seems tailor-made for the historian, yet even today, after almost a century and a half of organized play, baseball's origins remain unclea...
The Republic of De Gaulle covers the momentous eleven-year ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle as President of the newly established Fifth Republic. Serge Berstein analyzes important constitutional, political and socio-economic changes and De Gaulle's remarkable foreign policy. He concludes with an examination of De Gaulle's eventual fall, with an entire chapter on 1968. The work contains all the standard features that have helped this series to establish itself as the premier multivolume account of modern France.
The Republic of De Gaulle covers the momentous eleven-year ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle as President of the newly established Fifth Republic. Serge...
This text, aimed at students and professionals, presents information on Total Quality Management in a simple and clear way. This title is one in the Pictorial Guides series.
This text, aimed at students and professionals, presents information on Total Quality Management in a simple and clear way. This title is one in the P...
Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize 2001
Few kids have a secret as chilling as Timmy's.
Stephanie loves Raquel to death.
Acutely topical, darkly satirical and brutally uncompromising - these two monologues explore the shattering of childhood innocence. "The play opens up a moral minefield. Who can, or should, consent to what? Can anyone consent to something on the behalf of another? What power can anyone,...
Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new pl...
A comprehensive guide to project management and its interaction with other management systems and strategies
The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address critical, need-to-know information that will enable professionals to successfully manage projects in most businesses and help students learn the best practices of the industry. They contain not only well-known and widely used basic project management practices but also the newest and most cutting-edge concepts in the broader theory and practice of managing projects.
This first book in the series, The Wiley...
A comprehensive guide to project management and its interaction with other management systems and strategies