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  • Rendering the Illusion

    Raycasting, the Doom Engine, and the Mathematical Trick That Birthed the 3D Shooter

    by John B. Davis ...
    In the early 1990s, home computers lacked the processing power to render true, three-dimensional worlds. Yet, games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom managed to create incredibly fast, immersive 3D environments that ran flawlessly on basic hardware. The secret was not a hardware revolution, but a brilliant mathematical optical illusion programmed by John Carmack: Raycasting. This technical history book ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists

    Edited by Giancarlo Ianulardo, John B. Davis, Ricardo F. Crespo ...
    In recent years there have been increasing calls for a revision of the economics curriculum to address the most pressing and challenging issues facing society. This erudite Handbook bridges the gap between a flourishing body of scholarship in the philosophy of economics literature and an economics education in need of a deeper rethinking, as felt by both students and educators. It provides ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics

    Reflexive, Adaptive, Socially Embedded Individuals

    by John B. Davis ...
    Mainstream economics assumes economic agents act and make decisions to maximize their utility. This model of economic behavior, based on rational choice theory, has come under increasing attack in economics because it does not accurately reflect the way people behave and reason. The shift towards a more realistic account of economic agents has been mostly associated with the rise of behavioral ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Global Social Economy

    Development, Work and Policy

    Edited by John B Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    This book addresses ‘global social economy’ which addresses the relation of capitalism to human flourishing, the role of international governance in the world economy, the transformation of work and use of time in internationalizing economies, cross-country developments in gender, poverty, and ageing, and ethics economic policy issues in the international economy.This edited collection examines ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Economics Broadly Considered

    Essays in Honour of Warren J. Samuels

    Edited by Jeff E. Biddle, John B Davis, Steven G Medema ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics. This work ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Fruits of His Labor

    by John B. Davis ...
    THE FRUITS OF HIS LABOR: The true story of Professor Edmond Jefferson Oliver, Principal of Fairfield Industrial High School, its staff, its students, community, state of Alabama, the Nation and the World!!! By John B. Davis, Class of 1951 Fruit results from planted seeds, when seeds grow, they bear fruit, Galations 5:22, 23 We were taught that the fruit that you have to reach for is the sweetest!! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Health Care Economics

    by John B. Davis, Robert McMaster ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative approach, which places care at the center of an economics of health, showing how essential it is that care ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Theory of the Individual in Economics

    Identity and Value

    by John B Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book remedies this oversight.The new approach put forward by Da ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Social Economics of Health Care

    Edited by John B Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Individuals and Identity in Economics

    by John B. Davis ...
    This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, evolutionary and complexity economics, and the capability approach. These conceptions are classified according to whether they seek to revise the traditional ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Making Sense of Social Theory

    by Charles H. Powers ...
    Making Sense of Social Theory opens by carefully exploring what it means to follow the scientific method in a field like sociology. The book goes on to analyze sociology as a genuine science with a body of explanatory insights. Sociological theory is applied in ways that make its relevance and power apparent so that theory no longer stands divorced from real world research or practice. Making ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD