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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science

Princeton Press, 2008

From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown...

Unsupervised Signal Processing: Channel Equalization and Source Separation

CRC Press, 2010

Unsupervised Signal Processing: Channel Equalization and Source Separation provides a unified, systematic, and synthetic presentation of the theory of unsupervised signal processing. Always maintaining the focus on a signal processing-oriented approach, this book describes how the subject has evolved and assumed a wider scope...

The Blues: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Oxford University Press, 2010

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour

Legacy Books Press, 2007

Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humour. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. Strange and outlandish activities abounded - including somebody accidentally exposing himself while dancing sideways at his wedding (those wearing bed sheets didn't...

How to Lie With Statistics

W W Norton, 1954

"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the...

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: 13th CCF Conference, ChineseCSCW 2018, Guilin, China, August 18–19, 2018, Revised Selected ... in Computer and Information Science, 917)

Springer, 2019

Welcome to ChineseCSCW 2018, the 13th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ChineseCSCW 2018 was sponsored by the China Computer Federation (CCF), and co-organized by the Technical Committee on Cooperative Computing (TCCC) of CCF and Guilin University of Technology. The...

Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing

Pearson Education, 1999

Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Signal Processing tackles the challenge of providing readers and practitioners with the broad tools of mathematics employed in modern signal processing. Building from an assumed background in signals and stochastic processes, the book provides a solid foundation in analysis, linear...

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers

Oxford University Press, 2006

"A vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution."--New York Times

ith the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of...

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series)

Prentice Hall, 2011

Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals.

In The Clean Coder: A Code of...

The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History

Princeton Press, 2007

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics, one remembered from high school geometry class by even the most math-phobic students. Well over four hundred proofs are known to exist, including ones by a twelve-year-old Einstein, a young blind girl, Leonardo da Vinci, and a future president of the...

Stochastic Approximation and Its Application (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications)

Springer, 2002

This book presents the recent development of stochastic approximation algorithms with expanding truncations based on the TS (trajectory-subsequence) method, a newly developed method for convergence analysis. This approach is so powerful that conditions used for guaranteeing convergence have been considerably weakened in comparison with those...

Compensating Your Employees Fairly: A Guide to Internal Pay Equity

Apress, 2013

Compensation fairness is a universal preoccupation in today’s workplace, from whispers around the water cooler to kabuki in the C-suite. Gender discrimination takes center stage in discussions of internal pay equity, but many other protected characteristics may be invoked as grounds for alleging discrimination: age, race, disability,...

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