Bøker av David Halpern

With a foreword by Richard Thaler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2017!Dr David Halpern, behavioural scientist and head of Number 10's Behavioural Insights Team, or the 'Nudge Unit', invites you inside the unconventional, multi-million pound saving initiative that makes a big difference through influencing small, simple changes in our behaviour. Using the application of psychology to the challenges we face in the world today, the Nudge Unit is pushing us in the right direction. This is their story.

Includes material on time dependent solutions of linear partial differential equations, a chapter on eigenvalue problems, and MATLAB solutions to various applications. This book provides physical examples related to heat conduction, inviscid fluid flow, geometrical properties, stress analysis, and multi-dimensional optimizations.

In this book leading policy experts examine what has happened over the last decade across a broad range of key policy areas, what are currently the most salient challenges and what options might an incoming UK government, regardless of political persuasion, have to address them.

This text explores the relationship between the planned or built environment and the occurrence of mental ill-health. It discusses topics such as the impact of the environment as a source of stress and the effects that the environment can have on the quality of relationships between people.