Instead, risk is assumed to be implicit in economic or social models, rather than being explicitly theorised or analysed. This book represents the first major review of these key relationships.

An overview of the scope and limitations of professional secrecy in the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

This text aims to provide a concise, practical introduction to expert systems. It introduces enough theoretical concepts and techinquies to facilitate an understanding of the tools and technologies available to build expert systems.

This book shows how to make decisions when alternatives depend on criteria, but also the criteria depend on the alternatives.

The contributions in this book focus on his multi-faceted work, the influence of his books and the tragically short life of this young polymath from Germany who benefited from the intellectually stimulating milieu of Leiden and Amsterdam.

Readers at all levels will come away with an enriched appreciation of how science operates and how it connects with our daily lives. An especially valuable feature of this book is the actual demonstration of scientific reasoning.

This report describes the effects of poor housing on children's development and life chances.

Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.

This is a highly original new study of personality and intelligence that will bring together the various theoretical models and synthesize the developments in research over the last 100 years.

How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance.