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    Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power and Proof

    Alan D. Taylor

    The second part of the text revisits each topic, again with a single chapter devoted to each. On the other hand, within any given chap terthere is little reliance on…

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    Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

    Alan D. Taylor (Union College, New York)

    Learn why it is impossible to devise a reasonable voting system in which voters can never gain by submitting a disingenuous ballot. Using minimal prerequisites, in this 2005 book Alan…

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    Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation

    Alan D. Taylor (Union College, New York)

    A mathematical look at why it is impossible to devise a completely unmanipulable voting system.

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    The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference: A Study of Generalized Hat Problems

    Christopher S. Hardin,Alan D. Taylor

    For example, there is a method of predicting the value f(a) of a function f mapping the reals to the reals, based only on knowledge of f’s values on the…

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    The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference: A Study of Generalized Hat Problems

    Christopher S. Hardin,Alan D. Taylor

    For example, there is a method of predicting the value f(a) of a function f mapping the reals to the reals, based only on knowledge of f’s values on the…

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    Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof

    Alan D. Taylor,Allison M. Pacelli

    As a text for an undergraduate mathematics course for nonmajors, Mathematics and Politics requires no prerequisites in either area while the underlying philosophy involves minimizing algebraic computations and focusing instead…

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    Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof

    Alan D. Taylor,Allison M. Pacelli

    As a text for an undergraduate mathematics course for nonmajors, Mathematics and Politics requires no prerequisites in either area while the underlying philosophy involves minimizing algebraic computations and focusing instead…

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    The Win/win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody

    Steven J. Brams,Alan D. Taylor

    The authors have patented a procedure that guarantees that both parties to a conflict negotiation, such as divorce, walk away with as much of the win-win potential as possible. Mathematics…

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    Simple Games: Desirability Relations, Trading Pseudoweightings

    Alan D. Taylor,William S. Zwicker

    Simple games are mathematical structures inspired by voting systems in which a single alternative. The mathematical study of the subject as a coherent subfield of finite combinatorics, this book includes…

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    Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution

    Steven J. Brams (New York University),Alan D. Taylor (Union College, New York)

    An analysis of the abstract properties that different procedures satisfy; e.g. envy-freeness and efficiency.

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    The Geometry of Efficient Fair Division

    Julius B. Barbanel (Union College, New York)

    The author focuses exclusively on abstract existence results, rather than algorithms, and on the geometric objects that arise naturally in this context. By examining the shape of these objects and…

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    Taylor’s Cardiovascular Diseases: A Handbook

    Dr. Robert Taylor is well known throughout the Family Medicine community, and has written best selling titles with Springer before (Family Medicine, Principles and Practice, and Fundamentals of Family Medicine)…

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    Taylor’s Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges: A Handbook

    Primary care physicians in the U.S. and abroad widely trust and use Dr. Robert Taylor’s acclaimed Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, 6/E . This derivative handbook capitalizes on that success…

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    Taylor’s Musculoskeletal Problems and Injuries: A Handbook

    This derivative handbook addresses the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal problems and injuries in the primary care setting. Since primary care clinicians manage most sports injuries, athletic injuries are discussed…

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    Ancient Texts, Papyri, and Manuscripts: Studies in Honor of James R. Royse

    This volume honors Prof. James R. Royse for his scholarly achievement in the fields of New Testament textual criticism and Philonic studies. It contains seventeen articles, prefaced by an introductory…

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    Globalization in Historical Perspective

    Considers globalization in the context of the history of international trade. Its eleven papers explore a synthesized variety of topics, including how the process of globalization can be measured by…

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