Optimization Algorithms for Networks and Graphs, Second Edition,

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A revised and expanded advanced-undergraduate/graduate text (first ed., 1978) about optimization algorithms for problems that can be formulated on graphs and networks. This edition provides many new applications and algorithms while maintaining the classic foundations on which contemporary algorithm

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The Milwaukee Art Museum’s collection of American folk art reflects the art worlds’ increasing interest in the genre. A major part of the collection comes from Michael and Julie Hall’s extensive collection, acquired by the museum in the early 1990s. Parts of the collection went on nation-wide tour during 1993–1995, with this volume clearly explaining the importance of the genre, the vision of the collectors, and the beauty of the pieces of art, all produced by self-taught artists.

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Juniata College: Uncommon Vision, Uncommon Loyalty
Earl C Kaylor
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Juniata College was founded in 1876 by members of the Church of the Brethren, then a small ethnocentric religious group of German Anabaptist-Pietist pedigree. This book, richly anecdotal and illustrated, tells of Juniata's humble origins in the face of stubborn resistance based on the bias that education corrupted biblical faith. Located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the college stands as the first permanent institution of higher learning with Brethren origins (seven in all today).

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Uncommon Vision addresses the most critical and difficult challenges of the fast forward change period which many companies face: how to connect the company and every employee from the top to bottom and side to side in a truly boundaryless culture. It teaches how to mine the latent talents, creativity, and skills of every employee and then focus the enormous energy created on the mission process. The book enjoyably tackles this with a fictional story, comprehensible at every level from student to senior executive.

An Uncommon Vision Catalog #10 and #14: Lesbiana & Domestic ARts

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An Uncommon Vision Catalog #10 and #14: Lesbiana & Domestic ARts
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The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874-1971: A Russian Sculptor and His Times

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The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874-1971: A Russian Sculptor and His Times

Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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The first study of a world-renowned Russian sculptor.

An Uncommon Vision: The Des Moines Art Center

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An Uncommon Vision: The Des Moines Art Center
Louise Rosenfield Noun
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This magnificent volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of this museum and art school housed in buildings designed by world-renowned architects Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier. Illustrated essays cover the history of the Center and its distinguished architecture. Colorplates and commentary present more than 100 masterpieces of 20th-century art and tribal arts.

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This book is dedicated to understanding the processes governing the fate of pollutants, originating from both agriculture and industry, in soils. Investigated here are the properties of the interacting materials, pollutant partitioning between the soil phases, pollutant behavior in soils affected by environmental factors, as well as the principles to be considered in defining pollutant behavior.
The authors offer specialists working on soil pollution remediation the necessary background for their day-to-day work. The book will also be useful for graduate students starting research in this field.

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THE definitive basic book on applied biostatistical methods. Particularly suited for readers with limited mathematical background, it makes biostatistics accessible by using thorough, intuitive explanations (often laced with humor and described with an appeal to common sense logical notions), and by focusing on selected statistical methods and procedures applicable to the biological, biomedical, and health sciences. It discusses the concepts of the method, the rationale of the method, when to use the method, and how to interpret the results. The computations (while included) are not the focus of the presentation. Several larger examples are used repeatedly (from chapter to chapter) to demonstrate how investigators develop and carry out a study by moving from problem statement, to data accrual, to computation of descriptive statistics, to estimation and hypothesis testing, including univariate, bivariate and finally multivariable procedures for both discrete and continuous variables. The book is not tied to any particular computer package (e.g., SAS, Systat, BMDP), however many prototype computerized outputs of statistical analyses are illustrated and discussed in detail, with guidelines for reading and interpreting results. Descriptive Statistics. Probability. Populations, Samples, and Inference. Some Important Distributions. Estimation. Hypothesis Testing. Frequency Data. The Analysis of Variance. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation. Multiple Regression. Logistic Regression. Repeated Measures and Longitudinal Studies. Distribution-Free and Nonparametric Methods. Demography and Vital Statistics. For anyone involved in the biological, biomedical, or health sciences.

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Great intro to statistics with a dry sense of humor.......2002-10-29

To start off with, this is one of the least friendly looking textbooks I've ever had. Appearances are deceiving, though, as this has become one of the very few textbooks I've read cover to cover. Schork and Remington have a dry sense of humor, and as close to a light, flowing style as can be expected from a statistics textbook.

Excellent statistic book for medical personnel!.......2000-04-08

Excellent book for the biological or health related researcher with a touch of humor scattered throughout making it quite easy to read. It is comprehensive, touching on the most useful statistical techniques with excellent, concise examples and easy to understand explanations. The text is appropriate for those with little previous knowledge of statistics while refreshing and informative for those with a bit more experience. You can not go wrong with this book!

Statistics With Applications to the Biological and Health Sciences

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Statistics With Applications to the Biological and Health Sciences
M. Anthony Schork
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Statistics With Applications to the Biological and Health Sciences
Richard Delleraine Remington
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OIYAYU

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An innocent act of kindness turns a bear into a dangerous marauder and when she is killed she leaves her three cubs without a mother. Stephen Stringham and his new bride decided to raise these three orphan cubs in the Alaska wilderness. Together, they taught Ontak, Chrislee, and Jonjoanak about which plants they could eat and how to fish and hunt. Dr. Stringham's extensive scientific background made him an ideal teacher of the foraging skills and the social skills they would need to live in a bear's world. In the process of teaching them, Stringham learns from the cubs how bears express fear, anger, and how to appease defensive bears and intimidate the aggressive ones.

He and his wife would develop trust and respect through their affection and play, helping to heal the cubs' emotional wounds and decrease their aggression and violence. As the Springhams' bond with their furry charges deepens, they realize that it is a connection that is all too uncommon between people and animals. When Dr. Stringham is told by the Department of Fish and Game to destroy the bears, the depth of that bond would be tested. Beauty within the Beast is a heartwarming true story of how people and animals can find common ground and live in harmony on earth.

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Beauty within the beast.......2003-01-12

As many in this world know, very few will experience the Bear. Dr. Stringham skillfully shares his experience with the Ursus kind in a manner which allows the laymen to touch this creature in the comfort of the armchair.

I have much respect for what Steve has done, both in this book and his career, and hope that my words may spread the message that is contained in this book. I truly know that this will become a classic; in the true spirit of Michio Hoshino...Please write more Steve!

Real Life Adventure.......2002-11-19

Few of us will ever have the opportunities that Dr. Stringham has had, to live intimately with wild animals on a daily baisis and observe them close at hand. Dr. Stringham has written an enchanting and engaging accout of raising three wild bear cubs in the Alaskan wilderness. Bears have been revealed as intelligent and adaptive creatures who occupy a unique niche in the American wilderness, comparable to the niche primates occupy in Africa. This book is exciting, highly readable and hard to put down. Dr. Stringham is not only a gifted wildlife biologist, but a gifted writer; his descriptions are beautiful. I love this book, as has every other person I know who has had the fortune to read it. Christine Nicolayeff

Kinship with Bears.......2002-11-19

Beauty, personality, kin, children, learning beings--what a picture of these brown bears we are given, by Dr. Stringham. The previous reviewer (blessed282) has describe the beautiful attributes of this book well. I can only add: It is wonderful. I can't wait for his next one!

An Awesome Book.......2002-07-12

Reading this book was a privilege. The author writes with a sensitive and wonderfully descriptive style. I found myself fascinated from the moment I picked it up until I put it down. It is at once an adventure, and a love story of an unusual kind. In reading this book, I felt his reverence for wild animals, particularly for bears, and I learned to look at them as something far more than I had before. I was not overwhelmed by the science in the book, because it was so skillfully interwoven with his description of raising three black bear cubs. Dr. Stringham has created a treasure, and I highly recommend it.

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A sabermatrician's wet dream

If you like to think and argue about baseball, just order this now...

close but no championship ring there, Shula

A New York State of Mind

Off base and unoriginal

Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Allen Barra
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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That's Not the Way It Was (Almost Everything They've Told You About Sports Is Wrong)

ASIN: 0312302533

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Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? At their peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Jackie Robinson had been white, would he have made the Hall of Fame? Who was the greatest all-around player of the last century? Clearing the Bases tackles baseball's most intriguing questions and offers hard, sensible answers based on exhaustive research and analysis. Allen Barra, whose weekly sports column 'By The Numbers' has earned him millions of readers in The Wall Street Journal, takes on baseball's toughest arguments. 'If you love the game for what it is....step up and dig in.' -The New York Times

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A sabermatrician's wet dream.......2007-01-04

I don't participate in fantasy baseball but I do appreciate the amount of research Allen Barra has put into this book. Part of the intrigue of any sports books like this is the inevitability of more arguments, counterarguments and rebuttals. I agree with some of his points, his defense of Jackie Robinson as a Hall of Fame 2nd baseman on just his statistics, and I also disagree with some of his other arguments, like ranking Roger Clemens as the best pitcher of all time. Interesting read for all baseball fans.

If you like to think and argue about baseball, just order this now..........2005-11-04

If you are the type of person who enjoys the serious discussion of baseball comparisons...like, "Who's better: Mays or Mantle?" Or "Who's the best _____ in baseball ever?" than this is pretty much an essential purchase for you. Just go click on the order button and you'll be fine.

Barra's book is a series of short "arguments" or meditations on various subjects. Most of them are on baseball, although he tosses a few about football and basketball in at the end. They are written as if he was given a theory, and he feels compelled to provide proof or evidence of said theory.

For example, he takes on the hallowed legend of Babe Ruth, tries to break it down into comparisons which debunk some of the "myth" surrounding his legacy, and then surprisingly, ends up validating much of his greatness.

He has some interesting insights, like the segment on the 1919 Cincinnati Reds. Who knew they were so good? He has an elegant discussion comparing Joe DiMaggio with Ted Williams.

There were startling (for me) revelations and discoveries; players who I never appreciated, like Lefty Grove, Juan Marichal and Tim Raines.

His defense of Mike Schmidt as one of our all-time greats reads like a fantastic legal closing argument. You will walk away convinced that Schmidt may be one of the, if not the most, underrated baseball players ever.

The whole Mantle/Mays thing gets a bit bogged down in statistical analysis, and in the end, I came away with they were both so freaking great, we can leave it at that. I do agree that Mays isn't as revered as Mantle, and he probably should be.

The short football chapters (and one basketball missive comparing Chamberlain to Russell) at the end are interesting, but out of place. I think they're inserted to show he can write and think about other sports. Read them separately, at a later date.

There's a lot of good stuff here: an appreciation of Roger Clemens that avoid fawning, Minnie Minoso's unrecognized stature as a cultural icon, practical ideas regarding on-base percentage/average...

... what keeps this from a five-star book is that sometimes the book gets inundated in statistical gobbledygook and loses it's momentum. Don't get me wrong: I love stats and numbers like any self-respecting baseball nut. It's just that sometimes there's a bit TOO much here...but maybe this is a minor quibble.

Baseball fans will love this stuff...I sure did.

close but no championship ring there, Shula.......2005-08-19

Fascinating book but sometimes raw data needed a bit of refining. How about next time giving us something we can comprehend quickly when, say, comparing Ted Williams to Joe DiMaggio without having to pull out a calculator to figure HRs/plate appearance, or what their typical season was stat-wise, etc.?

I liked the fact he gave Juan Marichal and Minnie Minoso their due and also made a strong argument for Roger Clemens as being the equal at least of any pitcher in history. At times, though, you can see Barra has an axe to grind which is fine, but I think his arguments would work better without that slant.

I also think in any argument baseball writers have they should take into consideration post-season play. I mean, many consider statheads consider Derek Jeter to be less than the greatest thing to play SS in years but they base this ONLY on regular season stats. I'll take Jeter any day over any SS out there in the post-season....but I digress (and I'm not even a NYY fan...go figure).

I didn't quite get why we needed some basketball and football chapters in a book clearly subtitled about baseball. I enjoyed the pieces but they need to retitle the book and maybe double the size. This book really is way too short as the baseball stuff only goes to 213 pages so the stuff on other sports looks like padding to me.

A New York State of Mind.......2005-07-27

There is baseball outside of NYC but you'd never know it from this obnoxious one-sided book. Maybe if you love cute little Bob Costas you might like it...

Off base and unoriginal.......2002-08-26

Allen Barra, a terrific columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Salon, unfortunately disappoints in this book. Most of the book consists of recycled,unoriginal conclusions. Yes, most knowledgable baseball fans know Babe Ruth didn't save baseball single-handedly and was a womanizer, Mantle was a better offensive player than Mays, Ted Williams was a better hitter than Joe Dimaggio, etc... As another reviewer pointed out, most of these ideas were originally proposed by Bill James years ago. I cannot recommend this book.

Furthermore and far worse, Barra makes several factual errors in Clearing the Bases. In his misguided attempt to tear Babe Babe Ruth down, he incorrectly states that Ruth benefited from good homerun parks in Boston and New York. This is absolutely false. One thing Barra didn't learn from Bill James: Fenway Park in 1919 was a very tough homerun park. Ruth hit 20 of his 29 homers on the road. For his career Ruth had more homers on the road. I sent the author an e-mail informing him of this fact, which he has not acknowledged. Another misstatement occurs in the Lefty Grove section. Barra says that Grove missed time in 1934 because Connie Mack was overusing him. That would have been unlikely, since Grove was traded to Boston before the season and wasn't being coached by Mack that year. Barra can do better and I hope he will try again. Don't waste your time and money on this book.

Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century

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Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Allen Barra
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Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Allen Barra
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Easy to Use (I Use It Almost Every Week)

A Must for Lectors

One of my favorite Bible tools!

The HarperCollins Bible Pronunciation Guide
William O. Walker
Manufacturer: HarperOne
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ASIN: 0060689625

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The most authoritative and easy-to-use Bible pronunciation guide available--for use with any version of the Bible in English.

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Easy to Use (I Use It Almost Every Week).......2007-09-29

I used to serve under a very exacting Senior Pastor who was a stickler for proper pronunciation. This was easy to use and helped me avoid being scolded.

A Must for Lectors.......2007-04-01

This book is a must for those who read the Bible in public. If you don't have one, get one; or suggest that your church get one for all the lectors to use. Put it next to the Bible on the lecturn and USE IT. For those who want a reliable, easy to use, reference tool, this book is for you, too.

One of my favorite Bible tools!.......2000-01-18

How would you pronounce the following Bible characters names: Abiathar, Absalom, Adonijah, Ittai, Shimei? Bible Pronunciation Guide is one of my favorite Bible tools. Whether just for personal study or giving a Sunday lesson I owe it to myself & my audience to pronounce the names of the Bible characters correctly. If you want to know more about the biblical characters names you are pronouncing, read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. Numerous characters from the Bible are pointed out who illustrate King Solomon's witty observations on human nature.

The HarperCollins Bible Pronunciation Guide

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The HarperCollins Bible Pronunciation Guide
William O (Editor), and Dearman, J Andrew (Editor), and Craven, Toni (Editor) Walker
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
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ASIN: B000OEP1F6

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This book offers:

The latest information on a field of interest
Training and educational requirements for each career
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