Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits--including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward/effort ratio--and using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often discussed by[...]
Monte Carlo statistical methods, particularly those based on Markov chains, are now an essential component of the standard set of techniques used by statisticians. This new edition has been revised towards a coherent and flowing coverage of these simulation techniques, with incorporation of the most[...]
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first African American child to integrate a New Orleans school with this paperback reissue
The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Rub[...]
A lively history of one of America's oldest publishing houses, published in conjunction with Wiley's bicentennial Founded in New York City when Thomas Jefferson was president, Wiley has been a significant player in the publishing industry for two centuries. Now, on the occasion of Wiley's bicentenn[...]
Profoundly important ethical and political controversies turn on the question of whether biological life is an essential aspect of a human person, or only an extrinsic instrument. Lee and George argue that human beings are physical, animal organisms - albeit essentially rational and free - and exami[...]
This collection of intriguing essays describes important applications of statistics and probability in many fields. Instead of teaching methods, the essays illustrate past accomplishments and current uses of statistics and probability.[...]
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, ac[...]
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, ac[...]
"This is a delightful little paperback which presents a day-by-day transcription of a course taught jointly by Polya and Tarjan at Stanford University...One can count on [Polya and Tarjan] for new insights and a fresh outlook. Both instructors taught by presenting a succession of examples rather tha[...]
Whether it is stopping to smell the roses or trekking in the Himalaya, people will commonly turn to nature-based activites for relaxation, often resulting in personal happiness and well being. In this pragmatic guide to nature guided therapy, Dr. Burns points out that the wellness of anyone is based[...]
In the sequel to "Structures of Subjectivity "(1984), the authors apply the intersubjective approach to a wide array of clinical issues critical to psychoanalytic therapy, including the analysis of transference, resistance, psychic conflict, and the treatment of borderline and psychotic states. Rich[...]
This overview of intersubjectively theory offers contextualist critiques of the concept of psychoanalytic technique and of the myth of analytical neutrality, intersubjective contexts of extreme states of psychological disintegration and what it means to think and work contextually.[...]
In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pill[...]