This book is a one-stop-shop reference for risk management practitioners involved in the validation of risk models. It is a comprehensive manual about the tools, techniques and processes to be followed, focused on all the models that are relevant in the capital requirements and supervisory review of large international banks.
Revised edition of the author's Sources of power, c1998.A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Zizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy."A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."--Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Zizekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Zizek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophic…
"An argument against dual process theories and unconscious thought to explain the human mind and behavior" --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A brief book by an eminent researcher and former central banker urging central bankers to exercise caution and prudence, and to consider that they may not have every answer, when facing economic problems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Charts how corporate and government handling of working parents in the 1980s and 1990s followed the development of neo-liberalism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book unpacks the organizing metaphor of the "decisionscape," examining how psychological distance alters our decisions by dictating what we foreground and what we diminish, how our personal worldview influences how we interpret information, how the overall "composition" of the decisions we are faced with has an effect on how we react to them, and how our decisions are bounded and framed b…
"The Anthropocene Cookbook is by far the most comprehensive collection of ideas about future food from the perspective of art, design, and science. The book is unique in the way it connects food, art, thinking, and science. It talks to the new generation of aesthetically aware environmentalists. It promotes ecological thinking from a radically different perspective: what happens if we embrace t…
"A collection of short, accessible essays by one of the leading practitioners of Naturalistic Decision Making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Zickzack (German for Zig-zag) is an examination of six locations around the German-speaking area of Europe, ranging from the Baltic in the north, to the Tyrollean and French border territories in the south. The texts themselves are each a mixture of small essays, narration, conversations, lists, descriptions of places, and cover a wide range of subject matter - politics, architecture, literatu…