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From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake
art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to
magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody's Fool,
psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to
avoid being taken in. They describe the key habits of thinking and
reasoning that serve us well most of the time but make us
vulnerable-like our tendency to accept what we see, stick to our
commitments, and overvalue precision and consistency. Each chapter
illustrates their new take on the science of deception, describing
scams you've never heard of and shedding new light on some you
have. Simons and Chabris provide memorable maxims and practical
tools you can use to spot deception before it's too late.
Informative, illuminating, and entertaining, Nobody's Fool will
protect us from charlatans in all their forms-and delight us along
the way.?
This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise
architecture management with a specific focus on the business
aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture
management have dealt mainly with aspects of information
technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture
from business motivation and models to business execution. The book
provides examples of how architectural thinking can be applied in
these areas, thus combining different perspectives into a
consistent whole. In-depth experiences from end-user organizations
help readers to understand the abstract concepts of business
architecture management and to form blueprints for their own
professional approach. Business architecture professionals,
researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business
management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its
hands-on examples of successful business architecture management
practices.
The inside story-from the organizer himself--of the largest
unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers
behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has
baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The
Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked on before his 2012
death. On December 11, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy
Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world
history, totaling six million dollars. The perpetrators were never
apprehended and thirteen people connected to the crime were
murdered in homicides that, like the crime itself, remain unsolved
to this day. The burglary has fascinated the public for years,
dominating headlines around the globe due to the story's unending
ravel of mysteries that baffled the authorities.One of the
organizers of the sensational burglary, Henry Hill, who passed away
in 2012, in collaboration with Daniel Simone, has penned an
unprecedented "tell-all" about the robbery with
never-before-unveiled details, particulars only known to an
insider. In 2013, this infamous criminal act again flared up in the
national news when five reputed gangsters were charged in
connection to the robbery. This latest twist lends the project an
extraordinary sense of timing, and the legal proceedings of the
newly arrested suspects will unfold over the next year, continuing
to keep the Lufthansa topic in the news.
Atherothrombotic disease is the leading cause of morbidity and
mortality; therefore, anti-thrombotic agents play a pivotal role in
primary and secondary prevention of atherothrombotic complications.
In "A Clinical Guide to the Use of Antithrombotic Drugs," three
main sections in the field have been elaborated. In the first, 3
chapters on basics concepts of atherothrombosis are examined. The
objectives of these chapters are to provide pathophysiological
concepts on atherothrombosis useful to the practicing clinician to
understand the rationale for using antithrombotic agents in daily
practice. In the second section, 16 chapters describe 4 main
categories of antithombotic agents used in clinical practice: oral
antiplatelet agents, intravenous antiplatelet agents, thrombin
inhibitors, and fibrinolytics. In each category, description and
clinical application of currently approved agents as well as agents
under clinical investigation are described. The objectives of this
section are to provide the stateof the art knowledge on
antithrombotic drug use and development. In the third section, a
series of 8 chapters examines the application of antithrombotic
agents in specific clinical scenarios. The objective of this
section is to provide practical insights on how to apply
antithrombotic agents in the context of daily clinical scenarios.
Overall, this compendium provides a valuable tool for clinicians in
their daily clinical practice on how to use currently available
antithrombotic agents as well as provide insights on the future
development in this field.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise
architecture management with a specific focus on the business
aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture
management have dealt mainly with aspects of information
technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture
from business motivation and models to business execution. The book
provides examples of how architectural thinking can be applied in
these areas, thus combining different perspectives into a
consistent whole. In-depth experiences from end-user organizations
help readers to understand the abstract concepts of business
architecture management and to form blueprints for their own
professional approach. Business architecture professionals,
researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business
management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its
hands-on examples of successful business architecture
management practices. ​
This Limited Edition comes with a unique cover and a pristine
slipcase with metallic foil print. The print run is limited to
world-wide 1113 copies. At a stunning size of 12" x 14" (30.5cm x
35.5cm), and with full spread images spanning 24" in width, this
first book of a new fiction series will open the doors to a
parallel history of racing. Daniel Simon designed for Bugatti,
Lotus, Formula 1 and penned unforgettable vehicles for Hollywood
movies like Tron: Legacy or Oblivion. This is his second book after
Cosmic Motors.
Simon will present in this series over the next years fictitious
racing machines at impeccable detail up to 50 megapixel, including
vehicle specs and maps of the tracks they raced on. All vehicles
and characters are explained through the carefully written story of
racer Vic Cooper, who time-travels to the past and the future to
compete in the most challenging motor races between 1916 and 2615.
This is episode 1, the year 2027, written in English, French and
German.
Top Gear magazine says on the back cover: ' After Cosmic Motors and
his adventures in Hollywood, this is Daniel Simon's next big coup.
'
Design fans, car enthusiasts, CG addicts and science-fiction
aficionados can enjoy Simon's parallel world through hyper-real
renderings, drawings and photography of fictional drivers, managers
and beautiful women. This first episode puts three uniquely
designed race cars in the spotlight: The 1981 Masucci X-5, the 2027
Masucci X-7 and the 2027 Prideux -Martin MF/27.
The foreword has been written by racing legend Jacky Ickx, who
raced in the 1960s, '70s and '80s for many famed teams such as
Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche, Brabham or Lotus. He is the only driver
to have won in Formula One, Can-Am, Le Mans, and the Paris-Dakar
rally.
If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch,
you'd notice it. Wouldn't you? If a serious violent crime took
place just next to you, you'd remember it, right? The Invisible
Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable, yet routine
tricks that your brain plays on you. In an award-winning and
groundbreaking study, psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel
Simons asked volunteers to watch a 60-second film of a group of
students playing basketball and told them to count the number of
passes made. About halfway through, a woman dressed head to toe in
a gorilla outfit slowly moved to centre screen, beat her chest at
the camera, and casually strolled away. Unbelievably, almost half
of the volunteers missed the gorilla. As this astonishing and
utterly unique new book demonstrates, exactly the same kind of
mental illusion that causes people to miss the gorilla can also
explain why many other things, including why: honest eyewitness
testimony can convict innocent defendants expert money managers
suddenly lose billions Homer Simpson has much to teach you about
clear thinking Insightful, witty, and fascinating, The Invisible
Gorilla closely examines the false impressions that most profoundly
influence our lives and gives practical advice on how we can
minimize their negative impact.
New York City, 1972. Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were
highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury
Manhattan hotels. (They once robbed Sophia Loren's suite, relieving
the Italian actress of over $1 million in gems.) With the blessing
of the Lucchese crime family, their next plot targeted the posh
Pierre Hotel-host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and
the wealthiest of the wealthy. Attired in tuxedoes and driven in a
limousine, this band of thieves arrived at the Pierre and with
perfect timing, they seized the security guards and, in
systematically choreographed moves, they swiftly took the night
staff-and several unfortunate guests who happened to be roaming
around the lobby-as hostages. The deposit boxes inside the vault
chamber are plundered and, after the intruders have held the Pierre
under siege for almost two hours, the gentlemanly thieves depart in
their limousine with a haul of $28 million. But then matters begin
to deteriorate. Comfort, Nalo, and their partners begin to double
and triple cross one another-two absconding to Europe with the bulk
of the booty while three are murdered by their former associates.
The authorities immediately suspect Comfort and Nalo of
masterminding the Pierre ambush and arrest them, but these veteran
criminals keep their mouths shut. To ensure that they are not
prosecuted, the Lucchese Family funnels a $500,000 bribe to the
presiding judge to quash the charges-and to this day The Pierre
Hotel caper remains unsolved. A suspenseful narrative of Mafia
intrigue, police corruption, and personal betrayal-which concludes
with a poignant love affair-this is the true story of the most
famous hotel robbery in American history.
Reading this book will make you "less" sure of yourself--and that's
a good thing. In "The Invisible Gorilla, " Christopher Chabris and
Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology's most famous
experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific
findings to demonstrate an important truth: "Our minds don't work
the way we think they do." We think we see ourselves and the world
as they really are, but we're actually missing a whole lot.
Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their
own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to
reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the
process, they explain:
- Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its
own analysts know will fail
- How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault
without seeing it
- Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes
- What criminals have in common with chess masters
- Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a
comeback
- Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters
Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as
it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write
traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people
will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them.
We're sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that
vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And
as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains
because we're continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and
effortless self-improvement.
"The Invisible Gorilla" reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions
can deceive us, but it's much more than a catalog of human
failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these
everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves
against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of
x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the
veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for
perhaps the first time.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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"The centrifugal pull of great literature, as embodied by the work
of these twenty-five writers, draws us into a fuller realization of
our humanity." - Daniel Simon, editor-in-chief of World Literature
Today For the last fifty years, The Neustadt Prize has been one of
the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, second only to
the Nobel. Poets, novelists, and playwrights from Gabriel Garcia
Marquez to Czeslaw Milosz and Dubravka Ugresic are listed among the
ranks of laureate. Now, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary,
Dispatches from the Republic of Letters gathers the acceptance
speeches of these twenty-five pioneering writers into one volume,
edited and with an introduction by World Literature Today
editor-in-chief Daniel Simon.
Korean edition of THE INVISIBLE GORILLA: And Other Ways Our
Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. In
Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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