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Nonlinear Oligopolies: Stability and Bifurcations
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Nonlinear Oligopolies: Stability and BifurcationsNonlinear Oligopolies: Stability and Bifurcations

The book focuses on the dynamics of nonlinear oligopoly models. It discusses the classical Cournot model with a large variety of demand and cost functions that illustrate the many different types of possible best response functions and shows the existence of unique and multiple equilibria. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of nonnegativity and capacity constraints. Dynamics are introduced under various assumptions for the adjustment process and the analysis of global dynamics is given through some specific examples. 
 
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Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last
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Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that LastDesign to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last

Social networks and online communities are reshaping the way people communicate, both in their personal and professional lives. What makes some succeed and others fail? What draws a user in? What makes them join? What keeps them coming back? Entrepreneurs and businesses are turning to user experience practitioners to figure this out. Social networks require a different set of design principles and ways of thinking about the user in order to be successful.

 
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Designing with the Mind in Mind
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Designing with the Mind in MindDesigning with the Mind in Mind

"Take fundamental principles of psychology. Illustrate. Combine with Fundamental Principles of Design. Stir gently until fully blended. Read daily until finished. Caution: The mixture is addictive." -- Don Norman, Nielsen Norman group, Author of Design of Future Things.
"[This book] is a primer to understand the why of the larger human action principles at work-a sort of cognitive science for designers in a hurry. ..." -- Stuart Card, Senior Research Fellow and the manager of the User Interface Research group at the Palo Alto Research Centerfrom the foreword

 
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 3rd edition
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine_3rd editionThe Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine_3rd edition

The third edition of this authoritative, comprehensive, in-depth medical guide features information on more than 1,700 medical topics in language accessible to adult laypersons.
 
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Better never to have been
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Better never to have beenBetter never to have been

David Benatar's Better Never To Have Been challenges a deep source of status quo bias. Benatar argues that coming into being is always a harm. Consequently the ideal population size is zero. "Best not to have been born", observed Sophocles, and Benatar concurs. Better Never To Have Been advocates the merciful extinction of all sentient life.
 
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