“thomas c schelling”

In this landmark book, Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling considers the ways in which military capabilities--real or imagined--are used as bargaining power. This edition contains a new foreword by the author where he considers the book's relevance over forty years after its first publication. Includ... More

Before "Freakonomics" and "The Tipping Point" there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals."--official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize "Micromotives and Macrobehavi... More

All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. This perspective has several characteristics: it is strategic in that it assumes that an important part of people's behavior is motivated by the thought of influencing other people'... More

... More

The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of applied mathematics and engineering. The main theme is the integration of the theory of linear PDE and the theory of finite difference and finite element methods. For each type of PDE, elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbo... More

In his first book, "How to Read Literature Like a Professor," Foster led readers through the symbolic codes of literature. Now he presents this lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun.Of all the literary forms,... More

In this book, the authors deal with areas of the English language likely to offer difficulty to an undergraduate learner. Theory is kept to a minimum, and whenever outlined, thoroughly illustrated. The second part deals with different aspects of composition like precis writing, letter writing, descr... More