Workers' culture in imperial Germany : leisure and recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia / / Lynn Abrams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778878803321
• Autore: Abrams Lynn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• ISBN: 1-134-90254-9; 0-04-445733-2; 1-138-00663-7; 1-134-90255-7; 1-280-32621-2; 0-203-18135-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 3063/6/0943
• Soggetti: Working class - Recreation - Germany - History; Popular culture - Germany - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; A Time and Place for Leisure; Time and inclination; The ability to pay; The Industrialization of Popular Culture; The working-class parish fair; Conflicts and resolutions; The segregation of festival culture; Socialist festival culture; Blueprint for the future; The Lubricant of Leisure; Workplace drinking; Drink and the family; Drink and the labour movement; Cultural aid to social stimulant; From the Street to the Stage; The taming of popular entertainment; Tingel-Tangels and music halls; The dance craze; Real entertainment; The Organization of LeisureThe beginnings of associational life; An 'alternative' associational movement; Club life; Spontaneity to organization; The Struggle for Control; Useful pursuits; Lungs of the city; Social reform or social control?; From Control to Commercialization; The rise of the cinema; Commercial culture versus working-class culture; The triumph of commercial culture?; Conclusions: a Working-Class Leisure Culture?; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's ; modern leisure industry also provides a major contribution to the social history of working-class life in the nineteenth century.

Contributions to the Theory of Games (AM-24), Volume I / / Albert William Tucker, Harold William Kuhn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154754103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©1951
• ISBN: 9781400881727; 1400881722
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 273
• Disciplina: 519.3
• Soggetti: Game theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I. FINITE GAMES -- 1. THE ELEMENTARY THEORY OF CONVEX POLYHEDRA -- 2. ELEMENTARY PROOF OF A MINIMAX THEOREM DUE TO VON NEUMANN -- 3. BASIC SOLUTIONS OF DISCRETE GAMES / Shapley, L. S. / Snow, R. N. -- 4. SOLUTIONS OF FINITE TWO-PERSON GAMES / Gale, D. / Sherman, S. -- 5. SOLUTIONS OF DISCRETE, TWO-PERSON GAMES / Bohnenblust, H. F. / Karlin, S. -- 6. SOLUTIONS OF GAMES BY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS / Brown, G. W. / Neumann, J. von -- 7. ON SYMMETRIC GAMES / Gale, D. / Kuhn, H. W. / Tucker, A. W. -- 8. REDUCTIONS OP GAME MATRICES / Gale, D. / Kuhn, H. W. / Tucker, A. W. -- 9. A SIMPLIFIED TWO-PERSON POKER / Kuhn, H. W. -- 10. A SIMPLE THREE-PERSON POKER GAME / Nash, J. F. / Shapley, L. S. -- 11. ISOMORPHISM OF GAMES, AND STRATEGIC EQUIVALENCE / McKinsey, J. C. C. -- PART II. INFINITE GAMES -- 12. OPERATOR TREATMENT OF MINMAX PRINCIPLE / Karlin, Samuel -- 13. ON A THEOREM OF VILLE / Bohnenblust, H. F. / Karlin, S. -- 14. POLYNOMIAL GAMES / Dresher, M. / Karlin, S. / Shapley, L. S. -- 15. GAMES WITH CONTINUOUS, CONVEX PAY-OFF / Bohnenblust, H. F. / Karlin, S. / Shapley, L. S. -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Sommario/riassunto: The description for this book, Contributions to the Theory of Games (AM-24), Volume I, will be forthcoming.