BINMORE, KEN. Playing for Real: A Text on Game Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2007. A comprehensive intermediate text.

BRAMS, STEVEN J. Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. Unusual applications of game theory to history, literature, the Bible, theology, philosophy, and law.

DIXIT, AVINASH, SUSAN SKEATH, & DAVID H. RILEY. Games of Strategy, 3d ed., Norton, New York, 2009. An excellent game-theory text that requires only a minimal mathematical background.

NASAR, SYLVIA. A Beautiful Mind, Simon & Shuster, New York, 1998. A biography of John Nash that is also a fascinating account of the early history of game theory.

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In 2001, a fictionalized version of this biography was made into a movie, which received four Oscars, including Best Picture, in 2002.

OSBORNE, MARTIN J. An Introduction to Game Theory, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004. A fine intermediate text with several interesting applications.

POUNDSTONE, WILLIAM. Prisoner’s Dilemma, Anchor, New York, 2003. A nontechnical look at the development of game theory and one of its most colorful characters, John Von Neumann.

WILLIAMS, J. D. The Compleat Strategyist: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy, rev. ed., Dover, New York, 1986. Originally written in 1954, this text provides many zero-sum game examples solvable by the techniques introduced in this chapter.