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This book does not focus solely on asymptotic extreme value distributions. In addition to the traditional asymptotic methods, it introduces a data-driven, computer-based method, which provides insights into the exact extreme value distribution inherent in the data, and which avoids asymptotics. It therefore differs from currently available texts on extreme value statistics in one very important aspect.  The method described provides a unique tool for diagnostics, and for efficient and accurate extreme value prediction based on measured or simulated data. It also has straightforward...

This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis and a normative (moral and political) crisis. These crises are reflected in the profoundly inequitable distribution of wealth, resources and life opportunities around the world. If we follow the causal roots of these crises, we are led back to an inherent dynamic in the capitalist economic system itself, discursively expressed as neoclassical, mainstream economics. For instance, by conflating human needs with...

Now available in English for the first time, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess's meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. As Naess approaches his ninetieth year, he offers a bright and bold perspective on the power of feelings to move us away from ecological and cultural degradation toward sound, future-focused policy and action.

Naess acknowledges the powerlessness of the intellect without the heart, and, like Thoreau before him, he rejects the Cartesian notion of mind-body separation. He advocates instead for the integration of...

Originally published in 1968. Scepticism is generally regarded as a position which, if correct, would be disastrous for our everyday and scientific beliefs. According to this view, a sceptical argument is one that leads to the intuitively false conclusion that we cannot know anything. But there is another, much neglected and more radical form of scepticism, Pyrrhonism, which neither denies nor accepts the possibility of knowledge and is to be regarded not as a philosophical position so much as the expression of a philosophical way of life. Professor Naess argues that, given a sympathetic...

Originally published in 1968. Scepticism is generally regarded as a position which, if correct, would be disastrous for our everyday and scientific beliefs. According to this view, a sceptical argument is one that leads to the intuitively false conclusion that we cannot know anything. But there is another, much neglected and more radical form of scepticism, Pyrrhonism, which neither denies nor accepts the possibility of knowledge and is to be regarded not as a philosophical position so much as the expression of a philosophical way of life. Professor Naess argues that, given a sympathetic...

Blutige Karwoche in Norwegen 

Als ein junger Mann in Elvestad erstochen wird, ist Harinder Singh von der Kripo Oslo alles andere als begeistert, in seine alte Heimat berufen zu werden. Doch nicht nur der Mordfall und seine Vergangenheit warten in der Provinz auf ihn, nur wenige Tage vor Ostern brennt zudem die Kirche samt Pfarrer Ramsberg nieder. Harinder sucht gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin Rachel Hauge nach einer möglichen Verbindung. Doch in Elvestad, so viel wird schnell klar, haben viele etwas zu verheimlichen, und nicht jeder wünscht, dass die Wahrheit ans Licht...

Die Zeit heilt keine Sünden

Für den Mord an ihrer Mutter und ihrem Stiefvater saß Helene Waaler achtzehn Jahre lang im Gefängnis. Dann wird Kriminalkommissar Harinder Singh beauftragt, dem alten Fall nachzugehen, und ihm fallen Ungereimtheiten auf. Als Helenes leiblicher Vater Stig kurz nach ihrer Entlassung tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden wird, scheint sicher: Helene hat wieder zugeschlagen. Nur Harinder und Christina glauben an ihre Unschuld - und geraten damit ins Visier eines Mannes, der sich wie ein Schatten durch Elvestad bewegt ...

"In Sachen Schreibtalent...

Die Frau im Fluss

Ein Mann wird auf einem Parkplatz bei Oslo erschossen, ein halbes Jahr später zieht man eine schwer verletzte norwegische Studentin aus dem Water of Leith in Edinburgh. Ihr Onkel, Kriminalkommissar Harinder Singh, reist kurzerhand nach Schottland, um herauszufinden, wer seine Nichte entführt hat und was danach schiefgelaufen ist. Zeitgleich bittet er Kollegin Rachel Hauge, in Oslo nach den wahren Drahtziehern zu suchen. Dabei trifft sie auf ein Geheimnis, das nicht nur Harinders Familie zu erschüttern droht ... 

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Going beyond previous investigations into urban land use and travel, Petter Naess presents new research from Denmark on residential location and travel to show how and why urban spatial structures affect people's travel behaviour.

In a comprehensive case study of the Copenhagen metropolitan area, Naess combines traditional quantitative travel surveys with qualitative interviews in order to identify the more detailed mechanisms through which urban structure affects travel behaviour. The case study findings are compared with those from other Nordic countries and analyzed and evaluated...