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  • Effects of Deregulation on Safety

    Implications Drawn from the Aviation, Rail, and United Kingdom Nuclear Power Industries

    de Vicki Bier, James Joosten, David Glyer, Jennifer Tracey, Michael Welsh ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Effects of Deregulation on Safety provides a comprehensive overview of the safety experiences of these three case study industries and their implications for the U.S. nuclear power industry. The treatment of the subject is not highly technical, and hence is accessible to a wide range of readers with interests in the subject matter. The book draws on literature from roughly 250 references, ranging ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Risk in Extreme Environments

    Preparing, Avoiding, Mitigating, and Managing

    de Vicki M. Bier ...
    Risk in Extreme Environments presents a wide-ranging discussion of approaches for assessing and managing extreme risks. Extreme events are not only severe, but also outside the normal range of experience of the system in question, and can include environmental catastrophe; engineering failure; financial or business meltdown; and nuclear or other extreme terrorism. The book focuses on synthesizing ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • Social Physics

    How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

    de Alex Pentland ...
    From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influenceIf the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the ... Leer más

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  • The Model Thinker

    What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

    de Scott E. Page ...
    Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Risk: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Risk: An Introduction

    The Concepts of Risk, Danger and Chance

    de Ben Ale ...
    Investments, global warming and crossing the road – risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and procedures for risk analysis and in doing so provides an introductory understanding of risk perception, assessment and management.Aided by over ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Harnessing Complexity

    de Robert Axelrod, Michael D Cohen ...
    Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Drift into Failure

    From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

    de Sidney Dekker ...
    What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Harnessing Complexity

    Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

    de Michael D Cohen, Robert Axelrod ...
    Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change.Building on evolutionary biology ... Leer más

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  • Decision Science and Social Risk Management

    A Comparative Evaluation of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Other Formal Decision-Aiding Approaches

    de M.W Merkhofer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making. Pointing to various theories for prescribing and rational izing choices, they have maintained that social goals could be achieved more effectively and at lower costs if government decisions were routinely subjected to analysis. Now, government ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Escape from Model Land

    How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

    de Erica Thompson ...
    Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limitsWhether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us understand the world around us every day. But models aren’t a mirror of reality. In fact, they are fantasies, where everything works out perfectly, every time. And ... Leer más

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  • The Complex Alternative

    Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic

    de David C. Krakauer, Geoffrey West ...
    COVID-19 is the virus that proved the fragility of the world. It took only the simplest form of life to shake the connectivity and dependency of society. This book is a real-time record and recommendation from a community of complexity scientists reacting to the pandemic. Through nontechnical articles, interviews, and discussions spanning the early days of the pandemic through the fall of 2021, ... Leer más

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