This bilingual dictionary contains more than 31,000 English-French and 23,000 French-English definitions, covering architecture, building, civil engineering and property. It is aimed at both professional and private individuals working in these disciplines in each other's countries. This new edition has been pruned, revised and considerably extended, and serves as an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace.

Presenting the current frontier of international comparative research in public finance and identifying important elements of the design of budgeting institutions, the book is of interest for the research community studying the political economy of public budgeting and for practitioners in governments and international organizations alike."--Jacket.

The last decade has seen a steady increase in the application of concepts from noncooperative game theory to such diverse fields as economics, political science, law, operations research, biology and social psychology. As a byproduct of this increased activity, there has been a growing awareness of the fact that the basic noncooperative solution concept, that of Nash equilibrium, suffers from severe drawbacks. The two main shortcomings of this concept are the following: (i) In extensive form games, a Nash strategy may prescribe off the equilibrium path behavior that is manifestly irrational. (Specifically, Nash equilibria may involve incredible threats), (ii) Nash equilibria need not be robust with respect to small perturbations in the data of the game. Confronted with the growing evidence to the detriment of the Nash concept, game theorists were prompted to search for more refined equilibrium notions with better properties and they have come up with a wide array of alternative solution concepts. This book surveys the most important refinements that have been introduced. Its objectives are fourfold (i) to illustrate desirable properties as well as drawbacks of the various equilibrium notions by means of simple specific examples, (ii) to study the relationships between the various refinements, (iii) to derive simplifying characterizations, and (iv) to discuss the plausibility of the assumptions underlying the concepts.

This reference work defines 20,000 terms used in the fields of geology, petroleum exploration and production, hydrology, environmental geology, and the other earth sciences. Also includes business and banking terms used in reports and proposals, and various legal, climatic, geographic, and computer terms, and units of measure. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

David is an inmate at a federal camp in Florida. Seven years ago, he was arrested on his return from Switzerland faced charges of conspiracy to counterfeit. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to ten years in prison. He once had the chance to be freed, but a vindictive judge overturned his appeal. Now David only has eighteen months to go. Over the course of his incarceration, David has written many books. His most recent is a novel called The Diary of a Prime Minister of Israel. In the story, David is the prime minister. He successfully wins a global war and meets the woman of his dreams, Sarah. His character eventually retires to spend the remainder of his life with his loving wife. Of course, the war and Sarah are mere figments of David’s imagination—until he gets hit on the head in prison. When he wakes, David is no longer able to differentiate between fiction and reality. He doesn’t understand why he’s behind bars. And where is the love of his life? He now lives within a vicious cycle, trapped not only in jail but in his own mind as well. Will David ever find a way to escape?