The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author, Paperback - Thomas C. Schelling

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations w...

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Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Ann...

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With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

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Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the appr...

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In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional cu...

Celebrating the 125th anniversary of MacKintosh's birth, this updated edition of the definitive biography includes a new preface.Publisher: Sandsto...

"Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King's dream and the reality of present-day America."--Anthony Walton, Harper's "Inte...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: PatanjaliTranslator: William Q. JudgeYoga is an exercise and meditation philosophy that has been taking the United States b...

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Reducere. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbot...

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Reducere. The Imitation of Christ has been standard fare in religious training and personal devotion for centuries. Although the language and style of Creasy...

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Reducere. Discover the True Meaning of VictoryThe Art of War is one of the most widely read classics of history--and one of the most practical works of philo...

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Biographies of women of the north east who have made local, national and international contributions to society.

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Reducere. DescriptionIn honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking b...

New Tools for Succeeding GloballyWhy do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Be...

Reducere. First published in 1902, "Just So Stories" is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of animal fables and poetry. This collection grew out of nightti...

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...

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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

Publisher: Workman PublishingAuthor(s): Austin KleonIllustration(s): B&W illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 176Collection: Austin KleonPublic...

William Thurston's work has had a profound influence on mathematics. He connected whole mathematical subjects in entirely new ways and changed the ...

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In this illustrated 1909 work, painter Elizabeth Butler recalls time in Ireland, Egypt, and the Cape of Good Hope. On some of these travels she was...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie J. ReaganIllustration(s): 6 illustrations, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date:...

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empi...