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    Halting the Sexual...

    Halting the Sexual Predators Among Us

    Engelstalige hardcover met stofomslag, als nieuw. Like new. Fine Copy. Text in Engish.

    Recently, the National Center for Victims of Crime reported annual figures showing 103,845 children were sexually abused, while in that same year there was a 20% increase in all rape incidents and a 33% increase in sexual assaults. Incarceration and therapy have not reduced the rates, points out this author. The rate of incarceration has increased, but incidence of sex crimes is not waning. Dobbert warns we must all play a vital role to reduce such crimes, by prevention. The seasoned forensic examiner enables us to see life through the sexual predator's eyes, to understand the motives and intentions of people with abnormal and uncontrollable desires. He argues we can create a safer world by removing the opportunity for such people to act on their ideas.

    The author clearly explains disorders from exhibitionism to pedophilia, and presents scenes that illustrate precursor behaviors shown by people preparing to act on such disordered thinking. Also illustrated are stalking patterns common to mentally ill people who commit sexual assaults or lust murders, including the activities of Kenneth Bianci, the Hillside Strangler, and Jeffrey Dahmer, whose serial lust homicides horrified the world. Community activists, teachers, principals, police officers, prosecutors, social workers, and students of criminal justice, forensic psychology, and psychopathology will find this volume of interest.

    Duane L. Dobbert ;

    € 40,00

    The Signal and the Noise

    The Signal and the Noise

    Dikke hardback met stofomslag in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig.

    Human beings have to make plans and strategize for the future. As the pace of our lives becomes faster and faster, we have to do so more often and more quickly. But are our predictions any good? Is there hope for improvement? In this book the author examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy, ever-increasing data. Many predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. We are wired to detect a signal, and we mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the prediction paradox: the more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, and the more we are willing to learn from our mistakes, the more we can turn information into knowledge and data into foresight. The author examines both successes and failures to determine what more accurate forecasters have in common. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, he visits innovative forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. Even when their innovations are modest, we can learn from their methods. How can we train ourselves to think probabilistically, as they do? How can the insights of an eighteenth-century Englishman unlock the twenty-first-century challenges of global warming and terrorism? How can being smarter about the future help us make better decisions in the present?

    Nate Silver;

    € 9,50

    The Genesis of Animal...

    The Genesis of Animal Play

    Paperback in goede staat. Lichte gebruikssporen. Engelstalig.

    In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral organization, and psychology. Is play essential to development? Is it the driving force behind human and animal behavior? What is the proper place for the study of play in the cognitive, behavioral, and biological sciences?

    The engaging nature of play—who does not enjoy watching a kitten attack a ball of yarn?—has made it difficult to study. Some scholars have called play undefinable, nonexistent, or a mystery outside the realm of scientific analysis. Using the comparative perspectives of ethology and psychology, The Genesis of Animal Play goes further than other studies in reviewing the evidence of play throughout the animal kingdom, from human babies to animals not usually considered playful. Burghardt finds that although playfulness may have been essential to the origin of much that we consider distinctive in human (and mammalian) behavior, it only develops through a specific set of interactions among developmental, evolutionary, ecological, and physiological processes. Furthermore, play is not always beneficial or adaptive.

    Part I offers a detailed discussion of play in placental mammals (including children) and develops an integrative framework called surplus resource theory. The most fascinating and most controversial sections of the book, perhaps, are in the seven chapters in part II in which Burghardt presents evidence of playfulness in such unexpected groups of animals as kangaroos, birds, lizards, and "Fish That Leap, Juggle, and Tease." Burghardt concludes by considering the implications of the diversity of play for future research, and suggests that understanding the origin and development of play can shape our view of society and its accomplishments through history.

    Gordon M. Burghardt;

    € 20,00

    The Sharing Economy

    The Sharing Economy

    Hardback met stofomslag in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig.

    Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club—these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the “sharing economy,” is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for money. In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as “crowd-based capitalism”—a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected?

    Drawing on extensive research and numerous real-world examples—including Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Etsy, TaskRabbit, France's BlaBlaCar, China's Didi Kuaidi, and India's Ola, Sundararajan explains the basics of crowd-based capitalism. He describes the intriguing mix of “gift” and “market” in its transactions, demystifies emerging blockchain technologies, and clarifies the dizzying array of emerging on-demand platforms. He considers how this new paradigm changes economic growth and the future of work. Will we live in a world of empowered entrepreneurs who enjoy professional flexibility and independence? Or will we become disenfranchised digital laborers scurrying between platforms in search of the next wedge of piecework? Sundararajan highlights the important policy choices and suggests possible new directions for self-regulatory organizations, labor law, and funding our social safety net.

    Arun Sundararajan;

    € 12,00

    Nieuwe producten en...

    Nieuwe producten en diensten bedenken, versie 3.0

    Hardcover, in zeer goede staat

    Het bedenken van succesvolle nieuwe producten of diensten is lastig. Slechts een op de zes innovatieprojecten haalt de markt. Omdat de klant er niet op zit te wachten, het intern aan draagvlak ontbreekt of omdat het technisch niet haalbaar is. Daarom is de VOORT innovatiemethode ontwikkeld. Met een intern team bedenk je in vijf stappen concrete nieuwe producten, diensten of businessmodellen. In een gestructureerd creatief proces keer je terug met drie tot vijf mini new business cases, vijftien weken na de kick-off. De methode is succesvol omdat je start met een innovatieopdracht, je zelf klantfricties ontdekt, de klant nauw betrokken is, je terugkeert met concrete business cases en je het gezamenlijk met een team doet. Dit zorgt voor intern draagvlak. De VOORT innovatiemethode is voor iedereen bruikbaar. Zowel voor diensten als producten en in business-to-business-of in business-to-consumermarkten. Meer dan dertig bedrijven en organisaties passen de methode toe. Sanoma Media heeft met deze methode de Libelle Academy en Work4Women bedacht en succesvol geïntroduceerd. Deze praktijkcase komt uitgebreid aan bod. Dit boek is een werkboek, bedoeld om de VOORT innovatiemethode zelf toe te passen. Het staat boordevol praktische inspiratie en bruikbare formats. Het bevat ook 35 creatieve technieken om zelf in het ideationproces te gebruiken. Over de auteurs Gijs van Wulfen, grondlegger van de VOORT innovatiemethode, is bedrijfseconoom, marketeer en innovatiefacilitator. Hij werkte in de foodsector en adviseerde bij achtereenvolgens Ernst & Young en Boer & Croon. Eind 2002 startte hij zijn eigen innovatieorganisatie die zich richt op opleiden, en het verspreiden en faciliteren van de VOORT innovatiemethode. Hij is een veelgevraagd spreker over innovatie op internationale congressen, seminars en workshops. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

    Wulfen, Gijs van ;

    € 7,50
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