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Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: ...

Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: ...

Gerd Gigerenzer

Markus A. Feufel, Gerd Antes, Johann Steurer, Gerd Gigerenzer, J. A. Muir Gray, Marjukka Mäkelä, Albert G. Mulley, Jr., David E. Nelson, Jay Schulkin, Holger Schünemann, John E. Wennberg, and Claudia Wild Health Illiteracy: Spread to the ...
Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making

Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making

Gerd Gigerenzer

All these people succeeded by trusting their instincts – but how does it work? In Gut Feelings psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making.
Cognition as Intuitive Statistics

Cognition as Intuitive Statistics

Gerd Gigerenzer

Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology.
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

Gerd Gigerenzer

"This is an important book, full of relevant examples and worrying case histories.
Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

Gerd Gigerenzer

Is there a rule of thumb that could help choose the right partner? This entertaining book shows us how to recognize when we don't have all the information and know what to do about it.
Rationality for mortals: how people cope with uncertainty

Rationality for mortals: how people cope with uncertainty

Gerd Gigerenzer

This volume should appeal, like the earlier volumes, to a broad mixture of cognitive psychologists, philosophers, economists, and others who study decision making.
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Gerd Gigerenzer

This eye-opening book explains how we can overcome our ignorance of numbers and better understand the risks we may be taking with our money, our health, and our lives.
Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty

Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty

Gerd Gigerenzer

This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research program. This volume collects recent articles, looking at how people use fast and frugal heuristics to calculate probability and risk and make decisions.
Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through ...

Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through ...

N. Parvini

Franic, Sanja, Denny Borsboom, Conor V. Dolan and Dorret I. Boomsma, 'The Big Five Personality Traits: Psychological Entities or Statistical Constructs?' Behavior Genetics, 44:6 (2014), 591– 604. Gigerenzer, Gerd, 'On Narrow Norms and ...
Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World

Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World

Gerd Gigerenzer

Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social.
The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North ...

The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North ...

Gerd-Rainer Horn

Gerd-Rainer Horn offers a fascinating re-assessment of these turbulent times, arguing that 1968 cannot be seen in isolation: that it must be viewed in the context of a much larger period of experimentation and revolt.
Political Parties and Public Policy in the German Länder: ...

Political Parties and Public Policy in the German Länder: ...

E. Turner

Hepp, Gerd F. (2006): 'Bildungspolitik als Länderpolitik', in Schneider, Herbert and Wehling, Hans-Georg (eds) Landespolitik in Deutschland: Grundlagen, Strukturen, Arbeitsfelder (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag), pp.240–69. Hepp, Gerd F. and  ...
The 2010 Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing in ...

The 2010 Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing in ...

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Kamau, Evanson, and Gerd Winter, eds. Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and the Law: Solutionsfor Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit- Sharing. London: Earthscan, 2009. Kamau, Evanson, Bevis Fedder, and Gerd Winter.
Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy

Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy

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Follmer, H., U. Horst and A. P. Kirman (2004), 'Financial price fluctuations in a simple learning model', mimeo, Humboldt University Dept. of Mathematics, Berlin. Gigerenzer, G. and R. Selten (2002), Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox,  ...
Injection Molding: An Introduction

Injection Molding: An Introduction

Gerd Pötsch

This book provides an overview of the injection molding process and all its related aspects, such as material behavior, machine and mold design.
The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Progressive ...

The Spirit of Vatican II: Western European Progressive ...

Gerd-Rainer Horn

29 From 1972 to 1975, writes Louis Vos, within the pages of the KSA's Werkgemeenschap +16 newspaper, the aptly renamed Aksiekrant, now jointly published by the similarly radicalized Jong Davidsfonds, 'criticism of the capitalist  ...
Synchronization of Oscillators and Global Output Regulation ...

Synchronization of Oscillators and Global Output Regulation ...

Gerd Simon Schmidt

Some of these resulted in very interesting research collaborations, for which I want to thank Mathias B ̈urger, Simon Michalowsky, Ulrich M ̈unz, Georg Seyboth, Jan-Maximilian Montenbruck and Peter Wieland. Not mentioning that my time ...
Freedom as a task

Freedom as a task

Wolfgang Fikentscher

... ELISABETH NOELLE-NEUMANN, PETER NOLL, DIETER POHMER, GERD ROEL- LECKE, KLAUS ROLINSKI, HANS HEINRICH RUPP, PETER SCHNEIDER, SPIROS SIMITIS. 2 Ein Beispiel: Bundesverband deutscher Zeitungsverleger e.
Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society

Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society

Graham A. Colditz

... 1995); Richard P. Pohanish, Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens (Noyes Publications, 2002); Gerd Potsch and Walther Michaeli, Injection Molding: An Introduction (Hanser-Gardner, 1995); Werner Rasshofer, ...
Duality and Approximation Methods for Cooperative ...

Duality and Approximation Methods for Cooperative ...

Mathias Bürger

Special thanks goes to my long time office mate Matthias Müller, as well as to Florian Bayer, Rainer Blind, Matthias Lorenzen, Max Montenbruck, Marcus Reble , Georg Seyboth and Gerd Schmidt for the excellent cooperation. I also thank my  ...
犹太人在中国

犹太人在中国

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... Edward Weidman, Frank Thcyleg, Lilli Finkelstein, William Schurtman, Abraham Fradkin, Israel Kipen, Iudith Ben-Eliczer, Rena Krasno, Zorach Warhaftig, Michael Blumenthal, Gerd Kaminski, Marvin Tokayer, Marcia Ristaino, Anson Laytner, ...
Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung: Aktuelle ...

Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung: Aktuelle ...

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Stoltenberg, Ute/Michelsen, Gerd/Schreiner, Johann (Hrsg.): Umweltbildung – den Möglichkeitssinn wecken. NNA-Berichte 12. Jg. Heft 1. Wolf, Karsten D. ( 2001): Internet based learning communities. Moving from patchwork environments to ...
Handbook of Augmented Reality

Handbook of Augmented Reality

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Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Gerd Hesina, Zsolt Zsalavari, L. Miguel Encarnacao, Michael Gervautz, Werner Purgathofer, “The Studierstube Augmented Reality Project”, Presence, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2002, 33–54, Massachusetts ...
Common Pools of Genetic Resources: Equity and Innovation in ...

Common Pools of Genetic Resources: Equity and Innovation in ...

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... contexts GORCH DETLEF BEVIS FEDDER 14 Knowledge commons, intellectual property and the ABSregime GERD WINTER PART IV International approaches 15 ABS, justice, pools and theNagoya Protocol PETER-TOBIAS STOLL 16 The ...
Acid Related Diseases: Biology and Treatment

Acid Related Diseases: Biology and Treatment

Irvin M. Modlin

Equal focus is given to the biology and pharmacology of acid secretion and to the specific disease states of ulcers and GERD. This edition is full of new full-color medical illustrations of all aspects of this topic.

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