Oxford University Press

This book aims to construct a theory of rational decision making for real, resource-bounded, agents. Such decision making must be based on objective probabilities rather than subjective probabilities, and cannot be done by choosing single actions with maximal expected values. Actions must be chosen as parts of plans, and plans must be evaluated in...

This is a history of "e;guerilla television"e;, a form of TV that was part of the larger alternative media tide which swept across the USA in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of that decade, as well as the theories and writings of people such as Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, guerilla television put forth...

The Story of the Creole BandThe Creole Band, which existed from 1914-1918, was the first important jazz band,        bringing jazz to the wider American public, from California to Massachusetts. This        is the first history of the important group, written by a renowned scholar of early        jazz....

This book considers how English possessives changed from    -es to 's during the middle ages. The author draws together her own and others' research on syntactic and morphological change in order to assess and explain the roles of processing and pragmatics in the construction of grammars and grammatical change....

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Susan Palmer offers an insightful examination of France's most stigmatized new religions, or ''sectes,'' and the public management of religious and philosophical minorities by the state....