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A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book        Review as "e;brilliant"e; and "e;provocative,"e; Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a        milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic        history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed...

A Very Short IntroductionGames are played everywhere: from economics and online auctions to social interactions, and game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes. This VSI reveals, without mathematical equations, the insights the theory can bring to everything from how to play poker optimally to...

A Very Short IntroductionThe Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology; and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience....

This book provides a comprehensive description of the current state of modelling in global and national economies. It introduces an approach to modelling that can readily be adopted for use in understanding how economies work and in generating forecasts for decision-makers and policy-makers alike. The approach is illustrated with various global and...

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history....

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