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  Game Theory and Strategy Explained

  Can Akdeniz, Introbooks Team

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  Game Theory has evolved since its inception, but at its root, it is the modeling of strategic interactions between two or more players where there is a set of rules and outcomes! This basic definition gets to the heart of what Game Theory is. And this can be applied to almost any situation in your life and your business.  
  Regardless of your status, as an entrepreneur or a part of the employed, this theory can serve you well. It can help you develop strategic approaches to real life situations, where you predict, with remarkable accuracy, the best possible route towards the best possible outcomes. If you wanted to have a crystal ball, one that helps you predict the future, then Game Theory would be as close to that crystal ball as you can get, in real-life!  
  Game Theory and Strategy go hand in hand. In fact, they are like the big brother and the little brother of social interaction. Where Game Theory is the big brother, used to guide you along the way, Strategy is the little brother, needing guidance, and who cannot exist successfully in the absence of ‘big brother’! They, therefore, have a tandem and reciprocal relationship.

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  Mortal Rituals - What the Story...

  Matt J. Rossano

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  A psychology professor examines what the survivors of the airplane crash hailed “The Miracle of the Andes” can show us about human evolution.On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks stranded at the crash site of their plane, high in the remote Andes Mountains. The incident made international headlines and spawned several best-selling books, fueled partly by the fact that the young men had resorted to cannibalism to survive. Matt Rossano examines this story from an evolutionary perspective, weaving together findings and ideas from anthropology, psychology, religion, and cognitive science. During their ordeal, these young men broke “civilized” taboos to fend off starvation and abandoned “civilized” modes of thinking to maintain social unity and individual sanity. Through the power of ritual, the survivors were able to endure severe emotional and physical hardship. Rossano ties their story to our story, seeing in the mortal rituals of this struggle for survival a reflection of what it means to be human.“[Rossano’s] narrative describes a “microcosm of human evolution,” and I think this book will grab the interest of many readers―students as well as the general public―as it teaches essential facts about the way Homo sapiens evolved.”—David Hicks, Stony Brook University and Clare College, Cambridge University “[Rossano] masterfully weaves a moving contemporary drama with a compelling account of the evolutionary history of ritual and religion. An impressive accomplishment and a truly captivating read from start to finish.”—Richard Sosis, University of Connecticut, cofounder and coeditor of Religion, Brain, & Behavior

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  Data and Goliath - The Hidden...

  Bruce Schneier

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  Data is everywhere.  We create it every time we go online, turn our phone in (or off), and pay with a credit card.  The data is stored, studied, and bought and sold by corporations and governments for surveillance and for control.  “Foremost security expert” (Wired) and best-selling author Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a double-edged internet – a Web that gives power that gives power to the people but is abused by the institutions on which those people depend. In DATA AND GOLIATH, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship, and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar.  He shares technological, legal, and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private, and secure world.  This is a book everyone with an internet connection – or bank account, or smart device, or car, for that matter – needs to read.

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  Be the Change You Want to See in...

  Julie Fisher-McGarry

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  A daily companion filled with soulful suggestions for supporting all living things: “Each day’s entry is clear and uplifting.” —John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America 
   
  This book, organized by month, is filled with a wide range of ways to put into practice our concern and consideration for nature and animals. Included are tips on:Living GreenWhere To Purchase Organic And Fair-Trade ProductsHow To Unplug From The GridSupporting Local EconomiesNourishing The EarthCreating A Sustainable Lifestyle 
   
  With daily personal anecdotes, inspiring quotations, verses of poetry, simple vegetarian recipes, women’s health tips, environmental facts, and green thoughts, you can discovered why individual action really does matter—and how you can start small and make a big difference.

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  The Way of the Water Priestess -...

  Annwyn Avalon

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  A hands-on guide for witches, pagans, and others who are drawn to the magic of water for healing and protection.The Way of the Water Priestess is a practical guide to the magical power of water and its resident spirits and how to use that magic for both self-empowerment and in the service of protector of water in all its forms. Written by the founder of Triskele Rose Witchcraft, the book offers a guide to revive the ways of the water priestess—to make water sacred again. This is not a new practice; women have tended the sacred waters since antiquity.   Readers of The Way of the Water Priestess will learn all the aspects of water magic: Historical and archeological information about rites and rituals, and women's role in relationship to waterThe lore of water goddesses from various cultures around the worldHow to form an intimate connection with water in all its formsMoon rituals, sacred bathing, and oracular and ritual artsHow to become a sacred vessel of water

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  Drawing Out Leviathan -...

  Keith M. Parsons

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  " . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer."At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a "social construct," that it does not discover facts about the world, but rather constructs artifacts disguised as objective truths. This view threatens the authority of science and rejects science's claims to objectivity, rationality, and disinterested inquiry. Drawing Out Leviathan examines this argument in the light of some major debates about dinosaurs: the case of the wrong-headed dinosaur, the dinosaur "heresies" of the 1970s, and the debate over the extinction of dinosaurs.Keith Parsons claims that these debates show that evidence and logic remained vitally important. They show science to be a complex set of activities, pervaded by social influences, and not easily reducible to any stereotype. Parsons acknowledges that there are lessons to be learned by scientists from their would-be adversaries, and the book concludes with some recommendations for ending the Science Wars.

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