Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions of the psychology and mathematics of chess in Germany and fin-de-siècle Austro-Hungary. In the 1930s, on the cusp of anti-Semitism and political upheaval, it was developed by von Neumann into an ambitious theory of social organization. It was shaped still further by its use in combat analysis in World War II and during the Cold War. Interweaving accounts of the period's economics, science, and mathematics, and drawing sensitively on the private lives of von Neumann and Morgenstern, Robert Leonard provides a detailed reconstruction of a complex historical drama.

Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960 (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

Leonard, Robert

History

Cambridge University Press

In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; Yellow Cab is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of nighttime Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. In this mixed bag of rich vignettes and interludes of poetry, Leonard offers sharp insights into the workings of the hidden world of an American city after dark.
 "With an ethnographer's eye for fine details and a writer's ear for words, Robert Leonard's portraits of Albuquerque's cabdrivers and their passengers ring every bit as true as the writings of Joseph Mitchell and Joseph Liebling about varieties of life in New York City. Thoughtful, compelling, and irresistibly authentic."--Keith H. Basso, Regents Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
 "Highly entertaining! . . . Hop aboard a bright yellow Crown Vic and buckle up for a nighttime journey seen through the eyes of a cabbie. You will be the 'fly on the window' as you witness the comical, bizarre, touching, and sometimes painful antics of human nature."--Mike Trujillo, Yellow Cab driver

Yellow Cab

Americas

University of New Mexico Press

Lonely Planet Swahili Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Language Survival Kit)

Travel

Reference

Lonely Planet

ARTPIX 3: Aotearoa/New Zealand

Arts & Photography

Tamati-Quennell, Megan

Vivieaere, Jim

Hunter, Fredericka

Other Media

ARTPIX

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The Everything Guide to House Hacking: Your Step-by-Step Guide to: Financing a House Hack, Finding Ideal Properties and Tenants, Maximizing the ... Real Estate Market, Avoiding Unnecessary Risk

Business & Money

Real Estate

Everything

Simon Denny is known for his research-based art projects, which have explored such themes as technology obsolescence, corporate culture, national identity, and internet politics.As the New Zealand representative at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Denny presents Secret Power. His starting point is how the world is imagined and depicted by powerful states today.It addresses the way that complex intelligence-gathering systems are represented visually, whether in sixteenth century Venice or the present day.

Simon Denny: Secret Power

Kraus, Chris

Individual Artists

Koenig Books

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