This book presents, compares, and develops various techniques for estimating market power - the ability to set price profitably above marginal cost - and strategies - the game-theoretic plans used by firms to compete with rivals. The authors start by examining static model approaches to estimating m[...]

Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the world. Groups in the United States dominated early Pentecostal histories, but recent global manifestations have expanded and complicated the definition of Pentecostalism. This volume provides a nuanced overview of Pentecostalism[...]

This book presents the definitive exposition of 'prospect theory', a compelling alternative to the classical utility theory of choice. Building on the 1982 volume, Judgement Under Uncertainty, this book brings together seminal papers on prospect theory from economists, decision theorists, and psycho[...]

Winner, National Jewish Book Award
" A] gorgeous, rueful collection . . . that lays bare the deepest human longings." --" Chicago Tribune"
In "Between Friends," Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, s[...]

As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz's cogent views on[...]

"Oz lifts the veil on kibbutz existence without palaver. His pinpoint descriptions are pared to perfection . . . His people twitch with life." -- "Scotsman"
In "Between Friends," Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconne[...]

By illuminating the political and philosophical background of the State of Israel, this title offers insight into the rise to power of Menachem Begin and the complications of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and shows how Zionism, ironically, led to the development of its bitterest enemy, the Pale[...]

The book of Amos holds a unique and central place among the canonical prophetic literature and presents a special array of issues for scholarly discussion. This book provides a thorough and balanced overview of the history of scholarship on the book of Amos, two essays that trace the history of scho[...]

Often called "minor prophets," these first great classical prophets spoke to issues that dominated their times--love, redemption, fidelity, renewal, authority, justice, righteousness, and inclusivity--and that continue to have great relevance today.Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series ass[...]

The results established in this book constitute a new departure in ergodic theory and a significant expansion of its scope. Traditional ergodic theorems focused on amenable groups, and relied on the existence of an asymptotically invariant sequence in the group, the resulting maximal inequalities ba[...]