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Models of Strategic Reasoning:Logics, Games, and Communities
Strategic behavior is the key to social interaction, from the ever-evolving world of living beings to the modern theatre of designed computational agents. Strategies can make or break participants’ aspirations, whether they are selling a house, playing the stock market, or working toward a treaty that limits global warming. This book aims at understanding the phenomenon of strategic behavior …
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- 978-3-662-48539-2
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- XI, 333
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- Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
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Modern Financial Crises
This book is devoted to the analysis of the three main financial crises that have marked this century: 2001 Argentina’s defaulting on its external debt, the American subprime crisis in 2008, and the current European debt crisis in Europe. The book pursues three major objectives: firstly, to accurately portray these three financial crises; secondly, to analyze what went wrong with mainstream e…
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- 978-3-319-20990-6
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- XVII, 257
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- Financial and Monetary Policy Studies
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City in Sight
Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this background, the contributors to this volume bring the city in sight from various disciplinary perspectives and relate their research findings to both national and international debates o…
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- 9789089641694
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Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork
This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy.How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter confidential material, closed-off quarters or bureaucratic rebuffs? This is a particular challenge for researchers in the security field, which is by nature secretive and difficul…
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- 9780429675355
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- 320 SEC s
Kurt Baschwitz: A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology
In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886—1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science a…
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- 9789048537280
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- 300 GIN k
Global Value Chains
This important volume presents seven case studies of global value chains alongside two theoretical chapters concerning these chains. The contributors explore a wide range of issues relevant to value chains: the impact of global value chains on local upgrading strategies, the role of governance structures shaping global value chains, the role of buyers in creating, monitoring and enforcing commo…
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- 9789089643605
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- 650
Branding Books Across the Ages : Strategies and Key Concepts in Literary Bran…
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, …
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- 9789048544400
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- 650
NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery : The Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Age…
Non governmental organizations; Women; History; Papua new guinea
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- 9781920942182
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- 650
Kurt Baschwitz : Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology
In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886—1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science a…
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- 978 90 4853 728 0
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- 302.2 GIN k
Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
Housing finance; Slum upgrading; Africa; Construction; Political economy; Land tenure; Housing development; Urban planning; Real estate; Public policy; Property rights; Economics
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- 978134995120
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- 650
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