Product Description: "Once you start reading this wonderfully original and totally engrossing story, you’ll do what I did: keep reading . . . When I’m 87, I want to be Buck Schatz." —Nelson DeMille This is the first in a one-of-a-kind, spectacularly well-written mystery series featuring Buck Schatz, an eighty-seven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all plugged-in grandson as his sidekick...read more

Product Description: Economist and evolutionary game theorist Daniel Friedman demonstrates that our moral codes and our market systems-while often in conflict-are really devices evolved to achieve similar ends, and that society functions best when morals and markets are in balance with each other.

Product Description: "Saving Our Children" is a book that discusses the issue of gun control, with a focus on violent youth crime. The book begins with the history of the gun culture in America, and touches on various reforms that were made in the past...read more

Product Description: Laboratory experiments with human subjects now provide crucial data in most fields of economics and there has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this relatively new field of economics. This textbook introduces the student to the world of experimental economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A highly acclaimed new illustrated guide to early American Postcards which offers a revealing historical account of our murky past by drawing from the fields of deltiology, philately, postal history, printing, and illustration. Detailed explanations and hundreds of illustrations clarify the development of various types of Pioneer Postcards including business advertising, correspondence, expositions, souvenir views, and topicals. The role of the U.S. Postal Service is critically examined. Original.

Product Description: "It may fairly be said that religion plays virtually no part in the lives of most American Jews." So begins Daniel Friedman's provocative discussion of American Judaism. Friedman, a rabbi for almost forty years, has counselled thousands of Jews on the meaning of being Jewish...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Experimental economics is a rapidly growing field of inquiry, and there currently exist several textbooks and surveys describing the results of laboratory experiments in economics. This primer, however, is the first hands-on guide to the physical aspects of actually conducting experiments in economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of papers focuses on markets organized as double auctions (DA). In a double auction, both buyers and sellers can actively present bids (offers to buy) and asks (offers to sell) for standardized units of well-defined commodities and securities...read more

Product Description: This book is a collection of papers focused on markets organized as double auctions (DA). In a double auction, both buyers and sellers can actively present bids (offers to buy) and asks (offers to sell) for standardized units of well-defined commodities and securities...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The scope of the book extends from the 1830s to the 1980s. Different authors focus on how various plays related to the audience as a class, the historically dynamic interaction between spectators and actors, and why certain plays gained popularity...read more