Author: Tina Vuncannon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: thought, incomplete
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $21.35
ISBN-10: 1434306968
ISBN-13: 9781434306968

For more than 5000 years, the land of Averesch has suffered under the devastation of hate, distrust, and war. The seven races of men have continuously vied for superiority and dominance over all the others. Ideas clash and beliefs collide alongside the steel used to defend each differing perspective. Countless thousands have died for the glory of the Age of Empires and the triumph of their own kin.... Yet the wheel of fate continuously revolves and a new current is shifting under the crumbling rock of the old. When brothers Briar and Nate Gehns are shipwrecked on a tiny island that is home to

Author: Robert J. Aumann
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: information, incomplete, games, repeated
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1995-05-16
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0262011476
ISBN-13: 9780262011471

During the height of the Cold War, between 1965 and 1968, Robert Aumann, Michael Maschler, and Richard Stearns collaborated on research on the dynamics of arms control negotiations that has since become foundational to work on repeated games. These five seminal papers are collected here for the first time, with the addition of "postscripts" describing many of the developments since the papers were written. The basic model studied throughout the book is one in which players ignorant about the game being played must learn what they can from the actions of the others. The original work, done u

Authors:Michael Magill, Martine Quinzii,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: vol, markets, incomplete, theory
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1996-05-10
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0262133245
ISBN-13: 9780262133241

The Theory of Incomplete Markets provides a unified framework for analyzing the real, financial, and monetary sectors of an economy. It describes an innovative theory that takes into account the fact that in order to coordinate their activities and share their risks, agents are forced by the imperfections in their knowledge and their propensity for opportunistic behavior to trade sequentially and to make only limited contractual commitments into the future. This book studies the consequences of trading with such a sequential and incomplete market structure for the equilibria of an economy: com

Author: Patrick Grim
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: truth, knowledge, totality, universe, incomplete
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 1991-11-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0262071347
ISBN-13: 9780262071345

The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete. The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague&#

Authors:Michael Magill, Martine Quinzii,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: vol, markets, incomplete, theory
Number of Pages: 558
Published: 2002-02-07
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0262632543
ISBN-13: 9780262632546

The Theory of Incomplete Markets provides a unified framework for analyzing the real, financial, and monetary sectors of an economy. It describes an innovative theory that takes into account the fact that in order to coordinate their activities and share their risks, agents are forced by the imperfections in their knowledge and their propensity for opportunistic behavior to trade sequentially and to make only limited contractual commitments into the future. This book studies the consequences of trading with such a sequential and incomplete market structure for the equilibria of an economy: com

Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: book, dobbs, maisie, revenge, incomplete
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312428189
ISBN-13: 9780312428181

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and ultimately Maisie must draw on her finely-honed skills of detection to solve one of her

Author: Danforth Scot
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: education, studies, disability, child, incomplete
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2009-06-03
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 143310170X
ISBN-13: 9781433101700

With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movemen