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Adapting game theory to political analysis, this book uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their solutions suitable for graduate students in various branches of political science. It focuses on noncooperative game theory and its application to international relations.

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Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show students how game theory can be applied in diverse areas including animal behavior, political science, and economics. The book's examples and problems look a

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Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show students how game theory can be applied in diverse areas including animal behavior, political science, and economics. The book's examples and problems look a

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(Hardback)

(Hardback)

For fans of Mary Roach, a sweetly nostalgic and enlightening exploration of futures past, present, and still to come.

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(Hardback)

Today geraniums can be found throughout the world, their widespread use in food and perfume manufacture as well as floral display exemplifying the global industrialization of plant production. This book details how the amenable geranium remains a plant that many love and others love to hate, but above all it is a flower that is seldom ignored.

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This wide-ranging book describes the importance, as well as the fragility of glaciers.

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Offers a look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. This title contains information related to functional biology. Drawing examples from creatures of land, air, and water, it demonstrates the many uses of biological diversity and how physical forces impact biological organisms.

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(Paperback, Expanded ed.)

An introduction to Godel's ideas on cosmology, physics, maths, and their philosophical implications. By explaining "Godel universes", models he proposed to solve the field equations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the author shows what Godel's theory implies: time travel is possible.

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Celebrated cartoonist Darryl Cunningham draws compelling portraits of seven scientists who for reasons of gender, race, mental health, poverty - excessive wealth, even - have not won the recognition they deserve. Antoine Lavoisier, Mary Anning, George Washington Carver, Alfred Wegener, Nikola Tesla, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Fred Hoyle.

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Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and it provides an invaluable introduction for beginners as well as an up-to-date guide for experienced meta-ana

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A practical reference source that provides essential information on the first 108 known chemical elements for students and working scientists. The information contained in this third edition reflects state-of-the-art values on the most frequently required constants. Each value was checked in a minimum of ten sources to ensure accuracy.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

The comprehensive guide to the song birds of Western Australia, includes 38 bird and 28 egg colour plates and detailed distribution maps.

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(Hardback)

Based on lectures given at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Johns Hopkins University, this book introduces eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. It shows that there is quantum ergodicity of eigenfunctions if the geodesic flow is ergodic.

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Based on lectures given at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Johns Hopkins University, this book introduces eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. It shows that there is quantum ergodicity of eigenfunctions if the geodesic flow is ergodic.

(Hardback)