Samuel Bruce Smith: 4 books
Chance, Strategy, and Choice
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These topics offer familiar, current, and lively subjects for a course in mathematics. This classroom-tested textbook, primarily intended for a general education course in game...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!