In recent decades game theory—the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals—has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory’s ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and inter...

Auf einer Convention in Chicago findet der »Star Wars«-Fan Paul Erickson im Mülleimer ein altes, aber gut erhaltenes Notizbuch. Als er hineinblättert, traut er seinen Augen nicht: Ein geheimnisvoller »G.L.« erzählt dort von dem Top-Secret-Filmprojekt »Star Wars«, das er im Jahr 1973 entwickeln will. Das Buch liest sich wie ein Krimi: Welchen Plot hätte »Star Wars« um ein Haar gehabt? Woher stammte die Idee für Darth Vaders Helm? Warum tragen alle Sturmtruppen Weiß? Und weshalb gibt es sie ...

The role of venoms in nature … and in human medicineWhy are toxins so advantageous to their possessors as to evolve over and over again? What is it about watery environments that favors so many venomous creatures? Marine biologist Paul Erickson explores these and other questions with astounding images from Andrew Martinez and other top underwater photographers.GREAT for teaching STEM Marine BiologyScorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far ...

An unabridged reading of this exciting novelisation of a First Doctor television adventure.It is ten million years in the future, and the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun. A gigantic Space Ark has been launched, to take the last of humanity to a new life on the planet Refusis II. Accompanying the humans on their journey are the Monoids, strange reptilian creatures from an alien world.When the TARDIS materialises on board, the Doctor and his friends are greeted with sus...

Vorbei ist es mit dem beschaulichen Leben des nicht gerade beliebten Milbo Muffin, seit er sich auf ein Abenteuer eingelassen hat, das jegliche Wobbit-Vorstellungskraft (und die ist nicht besonders groß) bei Weitem übersteigt. Nicht nur, dass er überraschend Besuch vom windigen Zauberer Ranndarf und dreizehn Zwergen zum Brunch bekommt. Er soll auch einen Drachen töten, die Grundstückspreise retten und ahnungslosen Fabelwesen überteuerte Ramschwaren verkaufen. Milbo wird sich auf eine Reise...

Vorbei ist es mit dem beschaulichen Leben des nicht gerade beliebten Milbo Muffin, seit er sich auf ein Abenteuer eingelassen hat, das jegliche Wobbit-Vorstellungskraft (und die ist nicht besonders groß) bei Weitem übersteigt. Nicht nur, dass er überraschend Besuch vom windigen Zauberer Ranndarf und dreizehn Zwergen zum Brunch bekommt. Er soll auch einen Drachen töten, die Grundstückspreise retten und ahnungslosen Fabelwesen überteuerte Ramschwaren verkaufen. Milbo wird sich auf eine Reise...

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed.

Six classic Doctor Who TV soundtrack adventures starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor.In 'The Sensorites' the Doctor and his friends visit an alien society with dark secrets.In 'The Romans' Ian and Barbara are sold into slavery in First Century Rome, and the Doctor encounters Nero!In 'The Space Museum' the travellers must work to avert a terrible potential future for themselves.In 'The Ark' the Doctor, Steven and Dodo encounter the last humans to fle...

Whole civilisations are threatened in these four classic TV novelisations featuring the First, Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors.In Galaxy Four, by William Emms, the First Doctor, Steven and Vicki find the Drahvins and the Rills engaged in battle on a desolate planet - one that will explode in two days' time.In The Ark, by Paul Erickson, the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun and humanity is heading for a new planet, but the Doctor's arrival has a terrible impact on mank...

Following a bloody revolution, an imprisoned army officer is ushered into a dark room and restrained opposite his counsel for the new government’s Truth and Reconciliation committee. She offers him potential amnesty for detailing his helping operate a notorious internment camp. Reluctantly, he agrees. Slowly, she peels away the layers of his life, but when the curtain is pulled back, it is revealed this has all been a deception. The woman is not who she seems and she will go to any length ...

*THE PIER AT THE END OF THE WORLD is on the CBC NSTA 2016 Outstanding Science List*With lyrical writing and stunning underwater photography, this picture book follows a day in the life of the denizens lurking in the cold, tide-swept waters beneath a remote pier on the shore of a northern sea.Vivid photos of a wolf fish munching a sea urchin, a hermit crab switching shells, a sea slug arming itself with stinging cells stolen from an anemone, a 35-pound lobst...

'Everything aboard this spaceship is suddenly endangered!' The TARDIS materialises in a tropical forest, and the Doctor, Steven and Dodo are surprised to find that it’s situated inside a vast spaceship. This is the distant future, and the last survivors from Earth are on a 700 year voyage to the planet Refusis II. Accompanying them are their mute, one-eyed servants: the Monoids. When Dodo unwittingly spreads her cold amongst the Monoids it proves deadly to them, and the travellers are accu...