Two experienced educators teach statistics hands-on with as little math and as many examples as possible. This new edition is fully updated with new examples designed to be easily worked with Microsoft Excel, the free OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet program, or any TI-83 compatible calculator.[...]

Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy. We continually receive information from a variety of sources: from our senses, from witnesses, from scientific instruments. When considering whether we should believe this information, we assess whether the sources are independent, how reliable [...]

A textbook for a one-semester course for students in chemistry, physics and nanotechnology, on the interaction of molecules with electric and magnetic fields as, for example, in light. The book provides the necessary background knowledge for simulating these interactions on computers with modern qua[...]

Covering both principles and practice, The ESC Textbook of Preventive Cardiology is a 'state of the art' resource for both the primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Comprehensive, practical and extensively linked to practice guidelines and recommendations from t[...]

The Middle East, a region infamous for political violence and a democratic deficit, boasts a rich but little-known history of nonviolent civilian-led struggles for rights and freedoms. Ordinary Egyptians, Palestinians, Turks, Israelis, Iranians, Kuwaitis and other Middle Easterners have, over the pa[...]

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-includi[...]

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and[...]

Changing Course is a practical introduction to new and necessary methods of running businesses so that the realities of business and the marketplace support the realities of the environment and the needs of human development.Gathering the expertise of more than 50 leaders of multinational corporatio[...]

Drawing on two sets of interviews, done forty years apart, this fascinating study explores the lives of the children of prominent Nazi leaders--including Hess, Bormann, Gring, Himler, and Frank--and how they have come to terms with their father's participation in mass genocide. Reprint. 20,000 first[...]