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Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
by Sylvia Nasar

ISBN 0684853701 (0-684-85370-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar

ISBN 0743224574 (0-7432-2457-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.
Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction
by Colin Camerer

ISBN 0691090394 (0-691-09039-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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Co-Opetition: 1. A Revolutionary Mindset That Redefines Competition and Cooperation; 2. the Game Theory Strategy That's Changing the Game of Business
by Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff

ISBN 0385479506 (0-385-47950-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Collective Action
by Russell Hardin

ISBN 0801828198 (0-8018-2819-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy
by J. D. Williams

ISBN 0486251012 (0-486-25101-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This entertaining text is essential for anyone interested in game theory. Only a basic understanding of arithmetic is needed to grasp the necessary aspects of strategy games for two, three, four, and more players that feature two or more sets of inimical interests and a limitless array of zero-sum payoffs.
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Complete Strategist
by J. D. Williams

ISBN 0070703965 (0-07-070396-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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A Course in Game Theory
by Martin J. Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein

ISBN 0262650401 (0-262-65040-1)
Softcover, Mit Pr

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Differential Games: A Mathematical Theory With Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization
by Rufus Isaacs

ISBN 0486406822 (0-486-40682-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

ISBN 0312853238 (0-312-85323-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.
This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."
Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Ender's Game
by Tami J. Strege

ISBN 1560778024 (1-56077-802-4)
Softcover, Center for Learning

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The Essential John Nash
by John F. Nash, Harold W. Kuhn, Sylvia Nasar

ISBN 0691095272 (0-691-09527-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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Evolution and the Theory of Games
by John M. Smith

ISBN 0521288843 (0-521-28884-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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The Evolution of Cooperation
by Robert Axelrod

ISBN 0465005640 (0-465-00564-0)
Softcover, Basic Books

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This widely praised and much-discussed book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoistswhether superpowers, businesses, or individualswhen there is no central authority to police their actions.
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Evolution of the Social Contract
by Brian Skyrms

ISBN 0521555833 (0-521-55583-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Evolutionary Game Theory
by Jorgen W. Weibull

ISBN 0262731215 (0-262-73121-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr

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Finite and Infinite Games
by James P. Carse

ISBN 0345341848 (0-345-34184-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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A fascinating meditation on life as a contest of games to be completed and games to be continued--and on what lies beyond winning and losing. [via]
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Fun and Games: A Text on Game Theory
by Kenneth Binmore

ISBN 0669246034 (0-669-24603-4)
Hardcover, Heath Canada, Limited, D. C.

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Game Theory
by Jean Tirole, Drew Fudenberg

ISBN 0262061414 (0-262-06141-4)
Hardcover, Mit Pr

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This advanced text introduces the principles of noncooperative game theory - including strategic form games, nash equilibria, subgame perfection, repeated games, and games of incomplete information - in a direct and uncomplicated style that will acquaint students with the broad spectrum of the field while highlighting and explaining what they need to know at any given point. The analytic material is accompanied by many applications, examples, and exercises.the theory of noncooperative games studies the behavior of agents in any situation where each agent's optimal choice may depend on a forecast of the opponents' choices. "noncooperative" refers to choices that are based on the participant's perceived selfinterest. Although game theory has been applied to many fields, fudenberg and tirole focus on the kinds of game theory that have been most useful in the study of economic problems. They also include some applications to political science. The fourteen chapters are grouped in parts that cover static games of complete information, dynamic games of complete information, static games of incomplete information, dynamic games of incomplete information, and advanced topics.drew fudenberg and jean tirole are professors of economics at mit [via]
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Game Theory: A Critical Introduction
by Yanis Varoufakis, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap

ISBN 0415094038 (0-415-09403-8)
Softcover, Routledge

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Game Theory: A Critical Text
by Yanis Varoufakis, Shaun Hargreaves Heap

ISBN 0415250951 (0-415-25095-1)
Softcover, Routledge

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In recent years game theory has swept through all of the social sciences. Its practitioners have great designs for it, claiming that it offers an opportunity to unify the social sciences and that it it the natural foundation of a rational theory of society. Game Theory is for those who are intrigued but baffled by these claims, and daunted by the technical demands of most introductions to the subject.

Requiring no more than simple arithmetic, the book:

* Traces the origins of Game Theory and its philosophical premises

* Looks at its implications for the theory of bargaining and social contract theory

* Gives a detailed exposition of all of the major `games' including the famous `prisoner's dilemma'

* Analyses cooperative, non cooperative, repeated, evolutionary and experimental games [via]
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Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction
by Morton D. Davis

ISBN 0486296725 (0-486-29672-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Fascinating, accessible introduction to enormously important intellectual system with numerous applications to social, economic, political problems. Newly revised edition offers overview of game theory, then lucid coverage of the two-person zero-sum game with equilibrium points; the general, two-person zero-sum game; utility theory; other topics. Problems at start of each chapter.
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Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict
by Roger B. Myerson

ISBN 0674341163 (0-674-34116-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Myerson introduces, clarifies, and synthesizes the extraordinary advances made in the subject over the past fifteen years, presents an overview of decision theory, and comprehensively reviews the development of the fundamental models: games in extensive form and strategic form, and Bayesian games with incomplete information.
Game Theory will be useful for students at the graduate level in economics, political science, operations research, and applied mathematics. Everyone who uses game theory in research will find this book essential.
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Game Theory and Economic Modelling
by David M. Kreps

ISBN 0198283814 (0-19-828381-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This book examines why game theory has become such a popular tool of analysis. It investigates the deficiencies in this methodology and goes on to consider whether its popularity will fade or remain an important tool for economists. The book provides the reader with some basic concepts from noncooperative theory, and then goes on to explore the strengths, weaknesses, and future of the theory as a tool of economic modelling and analysis. All those interested in the applications of game theory to economics, from undergraduates to academics will find this study of particular value. [via]
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Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction
by Herbert Gintis

ISBN 0691009430 (0-691-00943-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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Game Theory for Applied Economics
by Robert Gibbons

ISBN 0691003955 (0-691-00395-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal arguments about abstract games play a minor role. The applications illustrate the process of model building--of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal game-theoretic problem to be analyzed. Also, the variety of applications shows that similar issues arise in different areas of economics, and that the same game-theoretic tools can be applied in each setting. In order to emphasize the broad potential scope of the theory, conventional applications from industrial organization have been largely replaced by applications from labor, macro, and other applied fields in economics. The book covers four classes of games, and four corresponding notions of equilibrium: static games of complete information and Nash equilibrium, dynamic games of complete information and subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium, static games of incomplete information and Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and dynamic games of incomplete information and perfect Bayesian equilibrium.
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Games and Decisions
by R. Duncan Luce, Howard Raiffa

ISBN 0486659437 (0-486-65943-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory
by Eric Rasmusen

ISBN 1557865027 (1-55786-502-7)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub

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Games of Strategy
by Avinash K. Dixit, Susan Skeath

ISBN 0393924998 (0-393-92499-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Games People Play
by Eric Berne

ISBN 0345327195 (0-345-32719-5)
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Over forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne's classic is as astonishing and revealing as it was on the day it was first published.We play games all the time-sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like "Martini" (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like "If It Weren't For You" and "Uproar," to flirtation favorites like "The Stocking Game" and "Let's You and Him Fight," Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.Explosive when it first appeared, Games People Play is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It's as powerful and eye-opening as ever.
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Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
by Eric Berne

ISBN 0345410033 (0-345-41003-3)
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We think were relating to other peoplebut actually were all playing games.

Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Bernes classic is as astonishingand revealingas it was on the day it was first published. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Dr. James R. Allen, president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and Kurt Vonneguts brilliant Life magazine review from 1965.
We play games all the timesexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like Martini (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like If It Werent For You and Uproar, to flirtation favorites like The Stocking Game and Lets You and Him Fight, Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
Explosive when it first appeared, Games People Play is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. Its as powerful and eye-opening as ever. [via]
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Luck, Logic, And White Lies: The Mathematics Of Games
by JORG BEWERSDORFF, David Kramer

ISBN 1568812108 (1-56881-210-8)
Softcover, A K Peters Ltd

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Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power and Proof
by Alan D. Taylor

ISBN 0387943919 (0-387-94391-9)
Softcover, Springer Verlag

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Mathematics of Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications
by Melvin Dresher

ISBN 048664216X (0-486-64216-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
by Douglas R. Hofstadter

ISBN 0465045669 (0-465-04566-9)
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An interlocked collection of literary, scientific, and artistic studies. [via]
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright

ISBN 0679758941 (0-679-75894-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Nonzero, from New Republic writer Robert Wright, is a difficult and important book--well worth reading--addressing the controversial question of purpose in evolution. Using language suggesting that natural selection is a designer's tool, Wright inevitably draws the conclusion that evolution is goal-oriented (or at least moves toward inevitable ends independently of environmental or contingent variables).

The underlying reason that non-zero-sum games wind up being played well is the same in biological evolution as in cultural evolution. Whether you are a bunch of genes or a bunch of memes, if you're all in the same boat you'll tend to perish unless you are conducive to productive coordination.... Genetic evolution thus tends to create smoothly integrated organisms, and cultural evolution tends to create smoothly integrated groups of organisms.
Admittedly, it's as hard to think clearly about natural selection as it is to think about God, but that makes it just as important to acknowledge our biases and try to exclude them from our conclusions. It is this that makes Nonzero potentially unsatisfying to the scientifically literate. Time after time we've seen thinkers try to find in biological evolution a "drive toward complexity" that might explain all sorts of other phenomena from economics to spirituality. Some authors, like Teilhard de Chardin, have much to offer the careful reader who takes pains to read metaphorically. Others--legions of cranks--provide nothing but opaque diatribes culminating in often-bizarre assertions proven to nobody but the author. Wright is much closer to de Chardin along this axis; his anthropological scholarship is particularly noteworthy, and his grasp of world history is excellent. Unfortunately, he has the advocate's willingness to blind himself to disagreeable facts and to muddle over concepts whose clarity would be poisonous to his positions: try to pin him down on what he means by complexity, for example. Still, his thesis that human cultures are historically striving for cooperative, nonzero-sum situations is heartening and compelling; even though it's not supported by biology, it's not knocked down, either. If the reader can work around the undefined assumptions, Wright's charm and obvious interest in planetary survival make Nonzero a worthy read. If the first chapter's title--"The Ladder of Cultural Evolution"--makes you cringe, the last one--"You Call This a God?"--will make you smile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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On Numbers and Games
by John Horton Conway

ISBN 1568811276 (1-56881-127-6)
Hardcover, A K Peters Ltd

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ONAG, as the book is commonly known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential for over a quarter of a century. Originally written to define the relation between the theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games, the resulting work is a mathematically sophisticated but eminently enjoyable guide to game theory. By defining numbers as the strengths of positions in certain games, the author arrives at a new class, the surreal numbers, that includes both real numbers and ordinal numbers. These surreal numbers are applied in the author's mathematical analysis of game strategies. The additions to the Second Edition present recent developments in the area of mathematical game theory, with a concentration on surreal numbers and the additive theory of partizan games. [via]
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The Origin of Virtue
by Matt Ridley

ISBN 0670863572 (0-670-86357-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley

ISBN 0140264450 (0-14-026445-0)
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Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, others. This behavior, in a strange way, makes us good. It also makes us unique in the animal world, where self-interest is far more pronounced. "The essential virtuousness of human beings is proved not by parallels in the animal kingdom, but by the very lack of convincing animal parallels," Ridley writes. How we got to be so virtuous over millions of years of evolution is the theme of this entertaining book of popular science, which will be of interest to any student of human nature. [via]
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Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb
by William Poundstone

ISBN 038541580X (0-385-41580-X)
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The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins

ISBN 0199291152 (0-19-929115-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling

ISBN 0674840313 (0-674-84031-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know? Game-Theoretic Implications on Omniscience, Omnipotence, Immortality and Comprehensibility
by Steven J. Brams

ISBN 0387908773 (0-387-90877-3)
Softcover, Springer Verlag

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Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know?, Game-theoretic Implications of Omnipotence, Omniscience, Immortality, and Incomprehensibility
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ISBN 038748065X (0-387-48065-X)
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The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition
by David Barash

ISBN 0805076999 (0-8050-7699-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

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"An accessible, intriguing explanation of game theory . . . that can help explain much human behavior." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Humans, like bacteria, woodchucks, chimpanzees, and other animals, compete or cooperate in order to get food, shelter, territory, and other resources to survive. But how do they decide whether to muscle out or team up with the competition?

In The Survival Game, David P. Barash synthesizes the newest ideas from psychology, economics, and biology to explore and explain the roots of human strategy. Drawing on game theory-the study of how individuals make decisions-he explores the give-and-take of spouses in determining an evening's plans, the behavior of investors in a market bubble, and the maneuvers of generals on a battlefield alongside the mating and fighting strategies of "less rational" animals. Ultimately, Barash's lively and clear examples shed light on what makes our decisions human, and what we can glean from game theory and the natural world as we negotiate and compete every day.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by John Von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, Rubinstein, Ariel (AFT), Harold W. Kuhn

ISBN 0691130612 (0-691-13061-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.
This sixtieth anniversary edition includes not only the original text but also an introduction by Harold Kuhn, an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein, and reviews and articles on the book that appeared at the time of its original publication in the New York Times, tthe American Economic Review, and a variety of other publications. Together, these writings provide readers a matchless opportunity to more fully appreciate a work whose influence will yet resound for generations to come.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by Von Neumann J

ISBN 0471911852 (0-471-91185-2)
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The Theory of Poker
by David Sklansky

ISBN 1880685000 (1-880685-00-0)
Softcover, Two Plus Two Pub

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The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky discusses theories and concepts applicable to nearly every variation of the game, including five-card draw (high), seven-card stud, hold em, lowball draw, and razz (seven-card lowball stud). This book introduces you to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, its implications, and how it should affect your play. Other chapters discuss the value of deception, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, heads-up play, game theory, implied odds, the free card, and semibluffing.
Many of todays top poker players will tell you that this is the book that really made a difference in their play. That is, these are the ideas that separate the experts from the typical players. Those who read and study this book will literally leave behind those who dont, and most serious players wear the covers off their copies. This is the best book ever written on poker. [via]
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Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff

ISBN 0393310353 (0-393-31035-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Two-Person Game Theory
by Anatol Rapoport

ISBN 0486406865 (0-486-40686-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Richard K. Guy, John Horton Conway

ISBN 1568811306 (1-56881-130-6)
Softcover, A K Peters Ltd

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In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors' insightful strategies, blended with their witty and irreverent style, make reading a profitable pleasure. In Volume 2, the authors have a Change of Heart, bending the rules established in Volume 1 to apply them to games such as Cut-cake and Loopy Hackenbush. From the Table of Contents: - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! - Hot Bottles Followed by Cold Wars - Games Infinite and Indefinite - Games Eternal--Games Entailed - Survival in the Lost World [via]
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El Juego De Ender / Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card, Antonio Sanchez, Jose Maria Rodelgo

ISBN 8466616896 (84-666-1689-6)
Softcover, Ediciones B

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Aliens have attacked Earth twice and have nearly destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has begun breeding military geniuses and training them in the arts of war. Early soldier training takes the form of 'games,' and Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he outmaneuvers each opponent he encounters. He is smart enough to know that time is running out, but he has not yet played a game as intricate as trying to save the planet.
La Tierra se ve amenazada por una raza extraterrestre que se comunica telepáticamente y considera no tener nada en común con los humanos, a los que quiere destruir. Para vencerles es necesario un genio militar y por ello se ha permitido el nacimiento de Ender. Ender es un genio y puede ganar todos los juegos usados por en gobierno para entrenar el ejército a proteger la Tierra. Pero salvar la planeta va a ser el juego más complicado que Ender ha jugado en su vida.
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Una Mente Prodigiosa / A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar, Ricard Martinez Muntada

ISBN 8497934393 (84-9793-439-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Das Spiel: Naturgesetze Steuern D. Zufall
by Ruthild Winkler, M. Eigen

ISBN 3492021514 (3-492-02151-4)
Hardcover, Piper

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Spielen ist eine Kombination aus Glück und Verstand, die es den Mitspielern erlaubt, sich in eine vorteilhafte Position zu bringen, was im Regelfall wiederum auf Kosten der anderen Teilnehmer geschieht. Wie sehr dieses einfache Prinzip unser ganzes Sein bestimmt, davon ist in diesem ungewöhnlichen Buch des Chemikers und Nobelpreisträgers Manfred Eigen und seiner Mitarbeiterin Ruthild Winkler die Rede. Dabei schlagen sie einen Bogen von den Gesetzen der Naturwissenschaften über die Prinzipien wirtschaftlicher Zusammenhänge bis hin zu den Regeln von Sprache und Musik.
Definiert man Spiel als ein Regelwerk aus Strategie und Zufall, so trifft dies auch auf die Evolution zu. "Das Spielprinzip der Evolution ist Naturgesetz" schreiben die Autoren und sie meinen damit die natürliche Selektion als Antrieb für evolutionären Fortschritt. Glück, Pech, Zufall und Wunder bekommen in diesem globalen Spiel einen festen Platz. Dabei werden die Karten zwar ständig neu gemischt, dennoch sind mathematische Regeln und Logik die Grundlage des Spiels. Immer wieder räumen die Autoren der Diskussion der Spielregeln einen großen Raum ein. Philosophen und Theologen kommen genauso zu Wort, wie Physiker und Biologen. Diese überaus komplexen Zusammenhänge kann der Leser spielend erlernen, denn das Buch wird durchzogen von Spielen, die mit einfachen Regeln nachgespielt werden können, und die in anschaulicher Weise verdeutlichen, wie sich das Konzept der Spieltheorie auf die Prozesse im Mikro- und Makrokosmos übertragen lassen.
Das überaus packende und umfangreiche Werk ist für all diejenigen gedacht, die -- inmitten des großen Spiels -- die Spielregeln beherrschen wollen und dem Zufall wenigstens hin und wieder ein Schnäppchen schlagen wollen. --J. Schüring [via]
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