Now available in a second Edition, Games of Strategy remains the most accessible principles-level text for courses in game theory, addressing a remarkably broad range of concepts in a narrative that is both clear and compelling. Using resonant real-world examples, the authors simplify difficult theoretic ideas, helping students see the value of strategic thinking in a variety o...(展开全部)

伊恩•M.班克斯 Iain M.Banks （1954— ）：英国著名作家，生于苏格兰，曾就读于斯特林大学，主修英语文学、哲学和心理学。他以伊恩•班克斯为笔名写作主流小说，以伊恩•M.班克斯的笔名写作科幻小说。 一九八四年，班克斯以处女作《捕蜂器》 一举成名。自一九八七年起，他开始涉足科幻小说领域，创作了一系列以“文明”宇宙为背景的太空歌剧小说，反响巨大。《卫报》称其作品为“科幻小说评判的标杆”；赛博朋克宗师威廉•吉布森也盛赞其为科幻小说界的“不可多得的奇才”。《时代》周刊更是称其为“英国同时代作家中最有想像力的小说家。” 二○○八年，《泰晤士报》将班克斯评为一九四五年后英国最优秀的五十位作家之一。

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the wi...(展开全部)

约翰•麦克阿瑟（John MacArthur），今日著名的圣经牧师之一，作家。他是美国加州太阳谷“恩典社区教会”的主任牧师，恩主学院及神学院院长，著名的翻译经讲道传道人。继他父亲杰克•麦克阿瑟博士之后, 约翰是他的家族中连续第五代的牧师。他还负责“赐你恩典”机构，该机构事工包括制作全球广播节目，以及文字、录音带、网络圣经教导，该节目广播遍及英语国家，每年约有八百万人聆听学习他讲道的录音带。 他是许多畅销书籍的作者，其中以“麦克阿瑟圣经研究”系列最为著名。所著的《麦克阿瑟新约注释》，内容深入浅出，不仅为牧师、传道人、圣经教师预备讲章必读，也深受信徒喜爱，作为每日灵修的辅助资料。麦克阿瑟著有三十多本新约各书卷之注释、讲道及牧养、辅导等书籍。其中所著《释经讲道再探》（Rediscovering Expository Preaching）曾经被列为美国《传道...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding! then the discovery of a corpse in a chest! next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder! the strange case of the dead man...(展开全部)

Narrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided ...(展开全部)

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 mathematic...(展开全部)

Professor John Maynard Smith has written an account of a new way of thinking about evolution which has been developed in the last ten years. The theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an...(展开全部)