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Author(s): H.W. Lewis
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Year: 1997

Language: English

Title page
Introduction
1 Basics: The First Cut
2 The Dating Game
3 Probability
4 Gains and Losses
5 Putting It All Together
6 StabiIity: The Social Island
7 The Prisoners' Dilemma
8 Competitive Games
9 A Paradox
10 Rankings
11 Voting
12 Impossibility
13 Protecting the Future
14 Public Decisions
15 Apportionment
16 War: Lanchester's Law
17 Fluctuations and Regression
18 Investing: The Stock Market
19 Gambling
20 Sports-Mainly Baseball
21 The Lady or the Tiger?
22 Law and Juries
23 Intro Redux
Index