![]() ![]() Themes of the book include " Correlation does not imply causation" and "Using random sampling". It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. The book is a brief, breezy illustrated volume outlining the misuse of statistics and errors in the interpretation of statistics, and how errors create incorrect conclusions. Not a statistician, Huff was a journalist who wrote many how-to articles as a freelancer. ![]() How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954, presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. How to Lie with Statistics at Internet Archive ![]()
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![]() ![]() Readers wanted to know more about the work involved in designing and introducing the iPhone, but they also wanted to learn what it might feel like to be above the petty fray of people’s feelings. Isaacson was dogged in depicting Jobs’s personal failures while also crafting a compelling argument for Jobs as the pre-eminent inventor of his time. ![]() He was cruel in order to be kind to the vast galaxy of Apple lovers hungry for the next bit of world-changing technology. When Jobs was brutal, or callous, he was acting in the service of a higher cause. But more than that, Isaacson’s Jobs was a kind of deeply satisfying middle-class fantasy figure, a genius whose abilities placed him above the drab landscape of interpersonal morality. Why did Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, published in 2011, connect so deeply with readers? To be sure, the inventor of the iPod and the iPhone had designed masterpieces of technological wizardry that had improved people’s lives. ![]() ![]() She lived in the Krishnas' western world headquarters in Los Angeles and worked for 10 years as a public relations secretary and editor of the organization's newspaper, the ISKCON World Review. ![]() He was expelled from the Hare Krishna movement much before he was found guilty. The controversial Hare Krishna leader, Kirtanananda, aka Bhaktipada, was fined $ 250,000 and slapped with a 20-year-old federal prison sentence for racketeering and conspiracy in two murders about four years ago. The sordid events - child abuse, sexual corruption and murders at New Vrindaban are the subject of the book Monkey on a Stick by John Hubner and Lindsay Gruson. 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"I feel almost like my circulation doesn't go to my toes or something, and I usually attribute that to diabetes. ![]() Sure, there are things you can Google about me or find on. Eerily accurate: Circumstances of my cousin's death ![]() ![]() It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. He explains that he wrote this book because he wanted to see if it was. ![]() ill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. Bill Bryson also wonders why so many science books are written in a dull, technical way. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller- but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The rich live within exquisite gated communities, guarded by the CorpSeCorps militia. Far in the future, states have collapsed authority is wielded by immense corporations and their security forces. The drama plays out with a much ampler sense of its own world. ![]() She seems, I think, to have relaxed into her future of biological inventions, the grotesque backdrop made up of wilful scientific manipulation of organic materials. The Year of the Flood is a sort of loose sequel to Atwood's 2003 Oryx and Crake. When the brilliant performance starts to fall apart, as it does towards the end, we can only reflect that here is a subject that would defeat almost any novelist. Margaret Atwood clearly is that novelist and The Year of the Flood is, for the most part, the work of a marvellously confident and intricate imagination. But surely only a writer very confident of her powers decides to write a novel about the end of the world. T here are any number of subjects that a novelist can take on – two people falling in love in Sussex, a race against time to foil a bomb plot, the entry into politics of a Victorian transvestite. ![]() ![]() A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support," that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest-a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. 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Pascal renamed him ‘Gustavus Vassa’Įquiano was renamed Gustavus Vassa (after the 16th century Swedish King) by Pascal, against his will. Having been initially taken to Barbados, Equiano was eventually transported to the North American colony of Virginia, where he was bought by a Royal Navy lieutenant named Michael Henry Pascal. He embarked upon a long journey toward the Gold Coast, where he was eventually sold to an owner of a slave ship bound for the West Indies. ![]() Equiano was sold into slavery at the age of eleven, having been kidnapped from his local village along with his sister by local, African slave traders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Green has also coauthored a book with David Levithan called Will Grayson, Will Grayson, published in 2010. The book also topped the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list for several weeks. The praise included rave reviews in Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and from award-winning author Markus Zusak. In January 2012, his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars, was met with wide critical acclaim, unprecedented in Green's career. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best YA Mystery. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. ![]() ![]() His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We don't allow personal recommendation posts. We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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