Added by: flame333 | Karma: 381.35 | Fiction literature | 16 February 2012
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Sirensong (2011)
When Dana is invited to Faerie to be officially presented at the Seelie Court, it's no easy decision. After all, everyone knows Titania, the Seelie Queen, wants her dead. But Titania claims not to be the one behind the death threats; and her son, Prince Henry, makes the decision a whole lot easier when he suggests Dana might be arrested for (supposedly) conspiring with her aunt Grace to usurp the Seelie throne. So she and her father better do as they're told.
Book about how well humans make decisions, highlights various biases people prone to when making judgements in professional and daily life.Very engaging and interesting introduction to the field. Explanation being given in a plain language, accessible to a lay person as well as a psychology student. Readers can experience for themselves the application of this basic research to everyday probles in life.
The book provides a unique contribution to the literature in this field in that the studies of decision theory and data-based decision making are integrated. Focusing on educators assuming leadership roles in school improvement, the book’s content is equally relevant for administrators, supervisors, and teachers.
Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory
In Meaningful Games, the author explains in an accessible manner the usefulness of game theory in thinking about a wide range of issues in linguistics. The author argues that we use grammar strategically to signal our intended meanings: our choices as speaker are conditioned by what choices the hearer will make interpreting what we say. Game theory--according to which the outcome of a decision depends on the choices of others--provides a formal system that allows us to develop theories about the kind of decision making that is crucial to understanding linguistic behavior
