Author: Robert Hartwell Fiske
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451651317
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A comprehensive disctionary of common misusages illustrates the right way and the wrong way to use language and explores why dictionaries do not always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word.
Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A work of Universal Reference in all Departments of Knowledge with a New Atlas of the World
A Review of the Evidences of Christianity ...
Author: Abner Kneeland
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Paul Jones's Alias, Etc
Author: David Christie Murray
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State).
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Parliamentary Debates
Author: Victoria. Parliament
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Languages : en
Pages : 1258
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Languages : en
Pages : 1258
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Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation
Author: Alan D. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008839
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Honesty in voting, it turns out, is not always the best policy. Indeed, in the early 1970s, Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, building on the seminal work of Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, proved that with three or more alternatives there is no reasonable voting system that is non-manipulable; voters will always have an opportunity to benefit by submitting a disingenuous ballot. The ensuing decades produced a number of theorems of striking mathematical naturality that dealt with the manipulability of voting systems. This book presents many of these results from the last quarter of the twentieth century, especially the contributions of economists and philosophers, from a mathematical point of view, with many new proofs. The presentation is almost completely self-contained, and requires no prerequisites except a willingness to follow rigorous mathematical arguments. Mathematics students, as well as mathematicians, political scientists, economists and philosophers will learn why it is impossible to devise a completely unmanipulable voting system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008839
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Honesty in voting, it turns out, is not always the best policy. Indeed, in the early 1970s, Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, building on the seminal work of Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, proved that with three or more alternatives there is no reasonable voting system that is non-manipulable; voters will always have an opportunity to benefit by submitting a disingenuous ballot. The ensuing decades produced a number of theorems of striking mathematical naturality that dealt with the manipulability of voting systems. This book presents many of these results from the last quarter of the twentieth century, especially the contributions of economists and philosophers, from a mathematical point of view, with many new proofs. The presentation is almost completely self-contained, and requires no prerequisites except a willingness to follow rigorous mathematical arguments. Mathematics students, as well as mathematicians, political scientists, economists and philosophers will learn why it is impossible to devise a completely unmanipulable voting system.
Ingenuity in the Making
Author: Richard J. Oosterhoff
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822988461
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822988461
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.