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Hardback. Editor(s): Skiadas, Christos. Series: Understanding Complex Systems. Num Pages: 261 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 54 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GPFC; PBWS; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319296999
- ISBN
- 9783319296999
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Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Paperback.
A must-read for anyone who makes business decisions that have a major financial impact
Tomorrow's stock price, next month's sales, next year's costs these are all numbers we don't know yet. Yet everyday, we base our personal and business plans on these kinds of uncertainties. Illustrator(s): Danziger, Jeff. Num Pages: 416 pages, ill. BIC Classification: GPQD; KCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118073759
- ISBN
- 9781118073759
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.45
€ 25.99
€ 19.45
Paperback. This latest edition of The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error ' will help you understand how to move beyond 'human error'; how to understand accidents; how to do better investigations; how to understand and improve your safety work. Num Pages: 192 pages, Includes 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: GPQD; JMJ; KNXC; LNHH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 153 x 218 x 14. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472439055
- ISBN
- 9781472439055
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.93
€ 43.99
€ 43.93
Paperback. Explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. This book highlights perspectives on risk arising from cultural worldviews and concerns about specific hazards pertaining to blood transfusion, biotechnology, prescription drugs, smoking, terrorism, and nanotechnology. Series: Earthscan Risk in Society. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GPQD; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 44. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849711487
- ISBN
- 9781849711487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; BTC; GBC; GPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632207036
- ISBN
- 9781632207036
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.72
€ 16.99
€ 15.72
The Evolution of Complexity: The Violet Book of `Einstein Meets Magrit...
. Ed(S): Heylighen, F.; Bollen, Johan; Riegle...
hardcover. This study discusses the foundations and philosophy of complexity evolution, its mathematical and computer models, its explanation of self-organizing and living systems, its insights into the origin of mind, language and culture, and its practical uses in areas such as management and system design. Editor(s): Heylighen, F.; Bollen, Johan; Riegler, Alexander (Free University of Brussels, Belgium). Series: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society. Num Pages: 393 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPFC; GT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 1999th Edition
- Number of pages
- 393
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792357643
- ISBN
- 9780792357643
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Condition: New
€ 201.85
€ 201.85
Hardcover. When is it morally acceptable to expose others to risk? Most moral philosophers have had very little to say in answer to that question, but here is a moral philosopher who puts it at the centre of his investigations. Num Pages: 184 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: GPQD; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333643
- ISBN
- 9781137333643
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Condition: New
€ 138.03
€ 138.03
The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy. A Regional Perspective.
. Ed(S): Acs, Zoltan J.; Groot, Henri L. F. D...
Hardback. Knowledge has become a key driver for growth of regions and nations. This volume empirically investigates the emergence of the knowledge economy in the late 20th century from a regional point of view. It deals with the theoretical background for understanding the knowledge economy, with knowledge spillovers and development externalities. Editor(s): Acs, Zoltan J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Professor Peter. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 398 pages, 86 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GPF; KCL; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540437222
- ISBN
- 9783540437222
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Condition: New
€ 201.76
€ 201.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Acs, Zoltan J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Professor Peter. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 398 pages, 86 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GPF; KCL; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 611.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642078354
- ISBN
- 9783642078354
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Condition: New
€ 195.13
€ 195.13
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bernier, Celeste-Marie (University of Nottingham, UK); Newman, Professor of American Studies Judie (University of Newcastle upon Tyne The University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, UK The University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, UK University of Nottingham, UK); Pethers, Matthew. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature Eup. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; GBC; GPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692927
- ISBN
- 9780748692927
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Condition: New
€ 237.81€ 226.83
€ 237.81
€ 226.83
Paperback. Information is a key issue in decision making in economics and business. Being 'in the know' confers strategic advantages to people, allowing them to lie and/or cheat on their uninformed opponents. This text is designed to take students through key issues to give an understanding of the impact of imperfect and information in an economic context. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: GPF; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631206668
- ISBN
- 9780631206668
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Condition: New
€ 57.93
€ 57.93
Hardcover. Traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to the author, the central commodity in our new age of information is not stuff but style, for style is what competes for our attention amidst the din and deluge of new media. He aims to map the frontier that information technologies have created. Num Pages: 316 pages, 27 halftones, 4 diagrams. BIC Classification: GPF; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 181 x 30. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226468822
- ISBN
- 9780226468822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.05
€ 33.99
€ 27.05
paperback. This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts-specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable-revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America. Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; GPQD; JFFC; RNR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222463
- ISBN
- 9780812222463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
The DARPA Urban Challenge. Autonomous Vehicles in City Traffic.
. Ed(S): Buehler, Martin; Iagnemma, Karl; Sin...
Paperback. The DARPA Urban Challenge demonstrates how cutting-edge perception, control, and motion planning techniques enable intelligent autonomous vehicles to travel significant distances in off-road terrain, as well as operate in urban scenarios. Editor(s): Buehler, Martin; Iagnemma, Karl; Singh, Sanjiv. Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Num Pages: 663 pages, 14 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GPFC; TGBN; TJFM; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1003.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 663
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642261312
- ISBN
- 9783642261312
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Condition: New
€ 253.06
€ 253.06
Hardback. Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment-when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences-in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10, 6 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GPFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416717
- ISBN
- 9781421416717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.48€ 52.34
€ 56.48
€ 52.34
The Cross-Entropy Method. A Unified Approach to Combinatorial Optimiza...
Rubinstein, Reuven Y.; Kroese, Dirk P.
Paperback. Series: Information Science and Statistics. Num Pages: 321 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GPF; PBW; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441919403
- ISBN
- 9781441919403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.14
€ 150.14
Paperback. Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 30. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226239736
- ISBN
- 9780226239736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.41
€ 24.99
€ 20.41
Paperback. How holographic patterns of information underlie our physical reality Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: GPF; PGK; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 441.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620556603
- ISBN
- 9781620556603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.61
€ 17.99
€ 16.61
Hardcover. The Construction of Optimal Stated Choice Experiments provides an accessible introduction to the construction methods needed to create the best possible designs for use in modeling decision-making. It uniquely covers disciplines from marketing to transportation, environmental resource economics to public welfare analysis. Series: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470053324
- ISBN
- 9780470053324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.18
€ 152.18
Paperback. Explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. This title shows that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its own unique statistical language. Series: The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: GPFC; UYD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 125 x 196 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300181111
- ISBN
- 9780300181111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.71
€ 19.71
Paperback. The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions. Num Pages: 416 pages, (90 integrated). BIC Classification: GPJ; KJWS; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Pub Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Sixth Impression
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857028898
- ISBN
- 9781857028898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.50
€ 15.99
€ 11.50
Hardcover. Invaluable insights on trading today's futures market
The CME Risk Management Handbook provides an accessible overview of the futures market in today's electronic world of trading. Page by page, it outlines the various CME products currently available and explains how those products can be used to manage risk. Series: Wiley Finance Series. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GPQD; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 49. Weight in Grams: 878.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470137710
- ISBN
- 9780470137710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.18€ 74.83
€ 89.18
€ 74.83
The Changing Role of Visual Representations as a Tool for Research & L...
Vasiliki Spiliotopoulou-Papantoniou
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, b/w photos, illus & tables. BIC Classification: GP; JNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613243954
- ISBN
- 9781613243954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.71€ 52.53
€ 73.71
€ 52.53
Hardback. Explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, 30 figures. BIC Classification: GPS; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780745331461
- ISBN
- 9780745331461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.07€ 84.39
€ 101.07
€ 84.39