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Author : Steven D. Levitt Category : Publisher : Editions Gallimard ISBN : 2070443450 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 370
Avec Freakonomics, leur premier livre (Folio actuel numéro 132), Levitt et Dubner ont transformé notre regard sur le monde en appliquant les méthodes de l'économie aux petites bizarreries de la vie quotidienne. SuperFreakonomics aborde une nouvelle série de questions aussi insolites les unes que les autres. La méthode économique n'est ici ni une simple discipline universitaire ni une stricte explication mathématique de l'"économie", mais un instrument dont il faut se servir pour décrire comment nous prenons des décisions : c'est le mariage de la méthode économique et de la curiosité iconoclaste. Finalement, il ressort de toutes ces démonstrations une redoutable évidence : les êtres humains, que l'économie traite en sujets rationnels et calculateurs, ne font qu'obéir aux incitations.
Author : Steven D. Levitt Category : Business & Economics Publisher : Harper Collins ISBN : 9780061959936 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 320
Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based on revolutionary research and original studies SuperFreakonomics promises to once again challenge our view of the way the world really works.
Author : Marcia M. Gallo Category : True Crime Publisher : Cornell University Press ISBN : 9780801455896 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 240
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses to the crime, fueling fears of apathy and urban decay. Genovese’s life, including her lesbian relationship, also was obscured in media accounts of the crime. Fifty years later, the story of Kitty Genovese continues to circulate in popular culture. Although it is now widely known that there were far fewer actual witnesses to the crime than was reported in 1964, the moral of the story continues to be urban apathy. "No One Helped" traces the Genovese story’s development and resilience while challenging the myth it created. "No One Helped" places the conscious creation and promotion of the Genovese story within a changing urban environment. Gallo reviews New York’s shifting racial and economic demographics and explores post–World War II examinations of conscience regarding the horrors of Nazism. These were important factors in the uncritical acceptance of the story by most media, political leaders, and the public despite repeated protests from Genovese’s Kew Gardens neighbors at their inaccurate portrayal. The crime led to advances in criminal justice and psychology, such as the development of the 911 emergency system and numerous studies of bystander behaviors. Gallo emphasizes that the response to the crime also led to increased community organizing as well as feminist campaigns against sexual violence. Even though the particulars of the sad story of her death were distorted, Kitty Genovese left an enduring legacy of positive changes to the urban environment.
Author : Eric Siegel Category : Business & Economics Publisher : John Wiley & Sons ISBN : 9781118356852 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 336
You have been predicted—by companies, governments, law enforcement, hospitals, and universities. Their computers say, "I knew you were going to do that!" These institutions are seizing upon the power to predict whether you're going to click, buy, lie, or die. Why? For good reason: predicting human behavior combats financial risk, fortifies healthcare, conquers spam, toughens crime fighting, and boosts sales. How? Prediction is powered by the world's most potent, booming unnatural resource: data. Accumulated in large part as the by-product of routine tasks, data is the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as organizations churn away. Surprise! This heap of refuse is a gold mine. Big data embodies an extraordinary wealth of experience from which to learn. Predictive analytics unleashes the power of data. With this technology, the computer literally learns from data how to predict the future behavior of individuals. Perfect prediction is not possible, but putting odds on the future—lifting a bit of the fog off our hazy view of tomorrow—means pay dirt. In this rich, entertaining primer, former Columbia University professor and Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel reveals the power and perils of prediction: What type of mortgage behavior Chase Bank predicted Predicting which people will drop out of school, cancel a subscription, or get divorced before they are even aware of it themselves Why early retirement decreases life expectancy and vegetarians miss fewer flights Five reasons why organizations predict death How U.S. Bank and Obama's 2012 campaign calculated the way to most strongly influence each individual How IBM's Watson computer beat the human champs on TV's Jeopardy! How Target figures out you're pregnant and Hewlett-Packard deduces you're about to quit your job How judges and parole boards rely on crime-predicting computers to decide who stays in prison and who goes free What's predicted by Citibank, Facebook, Ford, Google, IBM, the IRS, Match.com, Pfizer, and Wikipedia A truly omnipresent science, predictive analytics affects everyone, every day. Although largely unseen, it drives millions of decisions, determining whom to call, mail, investigate, incarcerate, set up on a date, or medicate. Whether you are a consumer of it—or consumed by it—get a handle on the power of Predictive Analytics.
Author : Xandria Williams Category : Health & Fitness Publisher : Hachette UK ISBN : 9780748117826 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 320
In VITAL SIGNS, Xandria Williams explains why current medical treatments for cancer are having so little effect. She draws on her research findings, scientific background and work as a nutritionist and naturopath specialising in cancer to help you to understand the cancer process and give expert advice on how you can detect and reverse the cancer process long before a tumour appears. She gives accessible and practical advice on how to avoid cancer and monitor good health, what to do if you are afraid you may have cancer or be at risk of developing cancer, and complementary and alternative (CAM) approaches to follow if you currently have cancer or have just been diagnosed. These can be used safely alongside medical treatment. She also advises on how you can remain cancer free if you are in remission and want to avoid a recurrence.
Author : Dawn Sova Category : Literary Criticism Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc ISBN : 9781438149929 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 844
Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Fourth Edition discusses the many works that have been banned over the centuries because they offended or merely ignored official truths; challenged widely held assumptions; or contained ideas or language unacceptable to a state, religious institution, or private moral watchdog. Entries include: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) Beloved (Toni Morrison) The Color Purple (Alice Walker) Drama (Raina Telgemeier) Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Howl and Other Poems (Allen Ginsberg) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) and more.
Author : Stephen J. Dubner Category : Business & Economics Publisher : Penguin UK ISBN : 9780141967981 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 288
Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is Superfreakonomics. It reveals, among other things: - Why you are more likely to be killed walking drunk than driving drunk - How a prostitute is more likely to sleep with a policeman than be arrested by one - Why terrorists might be easier to track down than you would imagine - How a sex change could boost your salary Because sometimes the most superfreaky solution is the simplest.
Author : Steven D. Levitt Category : Business & Economics Publisher : Harper Collins ISBN : 9780062042514 Type book : PDF & Epub
Page book : 308
Superfreakonomics—the smash hit follow-up to the remarkable New York Times bestselling phenomenon Freakonomics—is back in a new full-color, fully illustrated and expanded edition. The brainchild of rogue economist Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner that once again brilliantly challenges our view of the way the world really works is presented with a new, visual, superfreaky dimension added, enhancing the already provocative thinking about street prostitutes, hurricanes, heart attacks, and other seemingly mundane matters that made Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics part of the national zeitgeist.