The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobi…
"Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." —official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize. Micromotiv…
Features stories whose subject is - how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group.
Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just a…
This book offers a treatment for the disease of statistical illiteracy. It is aimed at helping us understand risks in the real world, it shows how a proper understanding of uncertainties can make the difference between hope and despair.derstanding uncertainties in the real world…
Subtitled }Learning To Live With Uncertainty, Reckoning With Risk{ aims to educate us into taking a dispassionate view of our health vulnerability.
However much we crave certainty, we live in an uncertain world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are ordinary people idiots when reasoning with risk? Far too many of us, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, are hampered by our own i…
