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Economics
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Economics
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
These statistics raise a puzzle. Today’s poor countries lie mainly in
the tropics,...
... rules of
the auctioning games that were used. The result was that the
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Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction
The name of the game
We don’t try to explain why Alice or Bob behave as they do.
Instead ... two-player version of the very different Driving Game that we
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Ken Binmore
Game Theory
A Very Short Introduction
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The name of the game
If the great game of life played by the human species were
adequately...
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Preface ix
List of illustrations xv
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2 Global Warming: A Lot of Hot Air? 23
3 The Ice Age Cometh 44
4 ... still played down
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Nuclear
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Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
Seven years later, in 1952, the United States scaled the nuclear
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... The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction
‘warm intellectual pleasure meticulous treatment of the subject. It looks
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The Meaning of Life
into New Ageist claptrap. Spirituality, in short, became either
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Chaos
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
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Documentary film : a very short introduction
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AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and
Richard Rathbone
AMERICAN POLITICAL ... Partha Dasgupta
EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
BRITAIN Paul Langford
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