1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154750503321

Titolo

Contributions to the Theory of Games (AM-28), Volume II / / Albert William Tucker, Harold William Kuhn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1953

ISBN

1-4008-8197-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 298

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 / Kuhn, H. W. / Tucker, A. W. -- Contents -- Part I. Finite Zero-Sum Two-Persons Games -- 1. A Certain Zero-sum Two-person Game Equivalent to the Optimal Assignment Problem / Neumann, John von -- 2. Two Variants of Poker / Gillies, D. B. / Mayberry, J. P. / Neumann, J. von -- 3. The Double Description Method / Motzkin, T. S. / Raiffa, H. / Thompson, G. L. / Thrall, R. M. -- 4. Solutions of Convex Games as Fixed-points / Dresher, M. / Karlin, S. -- 5. Admissible Points of Convex Sets / Arrow, K. J. / Barankin, E. W. / Blackwell, D. -- Part II. Infinite Zero-Sum Two-Persons Games -- 6. Games of Timing / Shiffman, Max -- 7. Reduction of Certain Classes of Games to Integral Equations / Karlin, Samuel -- 8. On a Class of Games / Karlin, Samuel -- 9. Notes on Games over the Square / Glicksberg, I. / Gross, O. -- 10. On Randomization in Statistical Games with k Terminal Actions / Blackwell, David -- Part III. Games in Extensive Form -- 11. Extensive Games and the Problem of Information / Kuhn, H. W. -- 12. Equivalence of Information Patterns and Essentially Determinate Games / Dalkey, Norman -- 13. Infinite Games with Perfect Information / Gale, David / Stewart, F. M. -- 14. Signaling Strategies in n-Person Games / Thompson, G. L. -- 15. Bridge and Signaling / Thompson, G. L. -- 16. Sums of Positional Games / Milnor, John -- Part IV. General n-Person Games -- 17. A Value for n-Person Games / Shapley, L. S. -- 18. Symmetric Solutions to Majority Games / Bott, Raoul -- 19. Discriminatory and Bargaining Solutions to a Class of Symmetric n-



Person Games / Gillies, D. B. -- 20. Quota Solutions of n-Person Games / Shapley, L. S. -- 21. Arbitration Schemes for Generalized Two-person Games / Raiffa, Howard -- Bibliography -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

These two new collections, numbers 28 and 29 respectively in the Annals of Mathematics Studies, continue the high standard set by the earlier Annals Studies 20 and 24 by bringing together important contributions to the theories of games and of nonlinear differential equations.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996199890803316

Autore

Probyn Elspeth <1958, >

Titolo

Carnal appetites : foodsexidentities / / Elspeth Probyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-59552-2

0-203-37792-3

1-134-59553-0

1-280-02230-2

0-203-36116-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Disciplina

641/.01/3

641.013

Soggetti

Eating (Philosophy)

Identity (Philosophical concept)

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; Acknowledgements; Introduction: gut feelings; Bodies that eat; Feeding McWorld, eating ideologies; Eating sex; Cannibal hunger, restraint in excess; Eating in black and white: the making of Mod Oz; Eating disgust, feeding shame; Postscript: eating; the new sensuality?; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Carnal Appetites, Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex,



and the impact of our modes of consumption on our identities. 'You are what you eat' the saying goes, but is the tenet truer than ever? As the range of food options proliferates in the West, our food choices become inextricably linked with our lives and lifestyles. Probyn also tackles issues that trouble society, asking questions about the nature of appetite, desire, greed a