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The volume tells us about the close relationship between heaven and earth, between the extraordinary and the everyday, between faith and science, highlighted by the countless episodes of piety that allow us to retrace history and grasp its transformations, starting from the lived life of thousands of protagonists. In fact, the painted votive tablets prove to be an exceptional vector for reproducing and transmitting the values of the community: family, homeland, work, care for animals and the territory, use of means of transport and old and new technologies. In the ex-voto the cycles of life and seasons unfold and the impact on them of small and large natural or social disasters that recur over time with impressive regularity, unfortunately we find ourselves unprepared each time. In dealing with risks and calamities of all kinds, ex-votos women and men look upwards - with great dignity - asking them to survive, persist and replicate themselves as biological entities and cultural entities. The long sequence of events narrated in the ex-votos constitutes a sort of DNA of our nation, indispensable for shaping the country's future. Also for this reason, painted ex-votos must be detected, filed, preserved, protected, valued, studied and brought to the attention of the general public, as this volume proposes.

Ex-voto --- Sanctuaries --- Behavioral strategies --- Identification --- Votive tablets --- Bodies in action

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The volume tells us about the close relationship between heaven and earth, between the extraordinary and the everyday, between faith and science, highlighted by the countless episodes of piety that allow us to retrace history and grasp its transformations, starting from the lived life of thousands of protagonists. In fact, the painted votive tablets prove to be an exceptional vector for reproducing and transmitting the values of the community: family, homeland, work, care for animals and the territory, use of means of transport and old and new technologies. In the ex-voto the cycles of life and seasons unfold and the impact on them of small and large natural or social disasters that recur over time with impressive regularity, unfortunately we find ourselves unprepared each time. In dealing with risks and calamities of all kinds, ex-votos women and men look upwards - with great dignity - asking them to survive, persist and replicate themselves as biological entities and cultural entities. The long sequence of events narrated in the ex-votos constitutes a sort of DNA of our nation, indispensable for shaping the country's future. Also for this reason, painted ex-votos must be detected, filed, preserved, protected, valued, studied and brought to the attention of the general public, as this volume proposes.

Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church --- Popular culture --- Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge --- Folklore, myths & legends --- Ex-voto --- Sanctuaries --- Behavioral strategies --- Identification --- Votive tablets --- Bodies in action

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In the last fifteen years, game theory has become the dominant model in economic theory and has made significant contributions to political science, biology, and international security studies. The central role of game theory in economic theory was recognized by the awarding of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1994 to the pioneering game theorists John C. Harsanyi, John Nash, and Reinhard Selten. The fundamental works for which they were honored are all included in this volume. Harold Kuhn, himself a major contributor to game theory for his reformulation of extensive games, has chosen eighteen essays that constitute the core of game theory as its exists today. Drawn from a variety of sources, they will be an invaluable tool for researchers in game theory and for a broad group of students of economics, political science, and biology.

Operational research. Game theory --- Game theory. --- Economics, Mathematical. --- Théorie des jeux --- Mathématiques économiques --- Game theory --- Mathematical economics --- 330.1 --- Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- 330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Théorie des jeux --- Mathématiques économiques --- Economics, Mathematical --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Economics --- Econometrics --- Methodology --- Theorie --- Spieltheorie --- teoria dei giochi --- Spieltheorie. --- Game Theory. --- Game Theory --- Mathematisches Spiel --- Bayes-equivalence. --- Borel-measurable function. --- Harsanyi, John C. --- Morgenstern. --- Nash equilibrium point. --- Walras law. --- absence of coalitions. --- attribute vector. --- behavioral strategies. --- combinatorial problem. --- commodity-wise saturation. --- complete information. --- core. --- critical vector. --- decomposable game. --- direct market. --- equilibrium point. --- exchange economy. --- game tree. --- homeomorphic mapping. --- individually rational. --- joint probability, objective. --- local strategies. --- minimax condition. --- numerical probability. --- optimal strategies. --- payoff vector. --- permissible coalition. --- prior-lottery model. --- pure strategies. --- random-vector model. --- stable outcome. --- supinf condition. --- transferable utility. --- two-person games. --- utility function. --- vector system.