The challenge in early warning of displacement
crises comes not in predicting individual behavior,
but in predicting the collective behavior of
thousands of people fleeing from violence,
oppression, and disaster, while each retains
individual autonomy and social identity.

This book is intended to reorient understanding of
displacement with the complexity that characterizes
real-world episodes of forced migration. In doing
so, it details an important step towards using
computational models as a tool in addressing the
devastating consequences of displacement. Armed with
such...

After several years of small roles and experimental screenwriting during his early career, Jack Nicholson got his big break in 1969 with Easy Rider. The next year, his first lead role, in Five Easy Pieces, made him a star. In the decades since, the twelve-time Academy Award nominee has won Best Actor twice (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and As Good as It Gets) and become one of the most popular and respected actors of the past half century. Drawing on years of research and dozens of interviews with his associates, this critical study of Nicholson's oeuvre...