Author: Wesley Treat
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402766879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
Weird Texas
Author: Wesley Treat
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402766879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402766879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
A Number for your Thoughts
Author: Lines M E
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780852744956
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Why do we count the way we do? What is a prime number or a friendly, perfect, or weird one? How many are there and who has found the largest yet known? What is the Baffling Law of Benford and can you really believe it? Do most numbers you meet in every day life really begin with a 1, 2, or 3? What is so special about 6174? Can cubes, as well as squares, be magic? What secrets lie hidden in decimals? How do we count the infinite, and is one infinity really larger than another? These and many other fascinating questions about the familiar 1, 2, and 3 are collected in this adventure into the world of numbers. Both entertaining and informative, A Number for Your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations about Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers contains a collection of the most interesting facts and speculations about numbers from the time of Euclid to the most recent computer research. Requiring little or no prior knowledge of mathematics, the book takes the reader from the origins of counting to number problems that have baffled the world's greatest experts for centuries, and from the simplest notions of elementary number properties all the way to counting the infinite.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780852744956
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Why do we count the way we do? What is a prime number or a friendly, perfect, or weird one? How many are there and who has found the largest yet known? What is the Baffling Law of Benford and can you really believe it? Do most numbers you meet in every day life really begin with a 1, 2, or 3? What is so special about 6174? Can cubes, as well as squares, be magic? What secrets lie hidden in decimals? How do we count the infinite, and is one infinity really larger than another? These and many other fascinating questions about the familiar 1, 2, and 3 are collected in this adventure into the world of numbers. Both entertaining and informative, A Number for Your Thoughts: Facts and Speculations about Numbers from Euclid to the Latest Computers contains a collection of the most interesting facts and speculations about numbers from the time of Euclid to the most recent computer research. Requiring little or no prior knowledge of mathematics, the book takes the reader from the origins of counting to number problems that have baffled the world's greatest experts for centuries, and from the simplest notions of elementary number properties all the way to counting the infinite.
Positive Psychological Interventions Beyond Weird Contexts: How, When, and Why They Work
Author: Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 283250535X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 283250535X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Weird But True Cool and Crazy Sticker Doodle Book
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426330235
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Get ready for even more DO-IT-YOURSELF weirdness in the latest Weird But True Sticker Doodle title. With each turn of the page kids learn new information and get to try new wacky activities, from doodling prompts to crosswords, mazes to picture puzzles. This book unleashes kids' creativity in a uniquely Nat Geo Kids way. Love Weird But True? Get ready for even more wacky fun, where YOU get to illustrate just how bizarre our world can be. Discover amazing weird facts and then doodle, draw, or color away right on the page. Did you know that some American soldiers once rode camels instead of horses? Draw some other unexpected animal mounts! Did you know that some ice-cream trucks serve scoops just for dogs? Create some other gourmet masterpieces for your canine companion. Enhance your wacky masterpieces with 150 fun stickers included in the book. Let your creativity run wild for hours on end in this perfect boredom-buster for rainy days, car rides, or any time.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426330235
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Get ready for even more DO-IT-YOURSELF weirdness in the latest Weird But True Sticker Doodle title. With each turn of the page kids learn new information and get to try new wacky activities, from doodling prompts to crosswords, mazes to picture puzzles. This book unleashes kids' creativity in a uniquely Nat Geo Kids way. Love Weird But True? Get ready for even more wacky fun, where YOU get to illustrate just how bizarre our world can be. Discover amazing weird facts and then doodle, draw, or color away right on the page. Did you know that some American soldiers once rode camels instead of horses? Draw some other unexpected animal mounts! Did you know that some ice-cream trucks serve scoops just for dogs? Create some other gourmet masterpieces for your canine companion. Enhance your wacky masterpieces with 150 fun stickers included in the book. Let your creativity run wild for hours on end in this perfect boredom-buster for rainy days, car rides, or any time.
Authenticity in North America
Author: Jane Lovell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042980234X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place. Blending social sciences and humanities research skills, it formulates an examination of the geography of authenticity in North America, and brings together studies of both rurality and urbanity across the country, exposing the many commonalities of these different landscapes. Relph stated that nostalgic places are inauthentic, yet within this work several chapters explore how festivals and visitor attractions, which cultivate place heritage appeal, are authenticated by tourists and communities, creating a shared sense of belonging. In a world of hyperreal simulacra, post-truth and fake news, this book bucks the trend by demonstrating that authenticity can be found everywhere: in a mouthful of food, in a few bars of a Beach Boys song, in a statue of a troll, in a diffuse magical atmosphere, in the weirdness of the ungentrified streets. Written by a range of leading experts, this book offers a contemporary view of American authenticity, tourism, identity and culture. It will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in Tourism, Geography, History, Cultural Studies, American Studies and Film Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042980234X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place. Blending social sciences and humanities research skills, it formulates an examination of the geography of authenticity in North America, and brings together studies of both rurality and urbanity across the country, exposing the many commonalities of these different landscapes. Relph stated that nostalgic places are inauthentic, yet within this work several chapters explore how festivals and visitor attractions, which cultivate place heritage appeal, are authenticated by tourists and communities, creating a shared sense of belonging. In a world of hyperreal simulacra, post-truth and fake news, this book bucks the trend by demonstrating that authenticity can be found everywhere: in a mouthful of food, in a few bars of a Beach Boys song, in a statue of a troll, in a diffuse magical atmosphere, in the weirdness of the ungentrified streets. Written by a range of leading experts, this book offers a contemporary view of American authenticity, tourism, identity and culture. It will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in Tourism, Geography, History, Cultural Studies, American Studies and Film Studies.
An Etymological Dictionary of Old Sumr‘
Author: Marcas Brian MacStiof‡in î Mhaitiœ î Domhnaill
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387070134
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"An Etymological Dictionary of Old Sumrë" is a complete list of all 3,000 words created in the fictional language "Old Sumrë" as well as including a brief grammar.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387070134
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"An Etymological Dictionary of Old Sumrë" is a complete list of all 3,000 words created in the fictional language "Old Sumrë" as well as including a brief grammar.
Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
Author: Paul Delaney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474442234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylistics
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474442234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylistics
Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic
Author: Chloe Germaine Buckley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474430198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474430198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema.
Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Author: Anna Furse
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408139979
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works and contextualises their reading by revealing how a script can emerge from or provoke a collaborative devising process. The works featured include: Hotel Methuselah, Imitating the Dog/Pete Brooks; Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo?, Athletes of the Heart; A Girl Skipping, Graeme Miller; Trans-Acts, Julia Bardsley; US, 1966 (with an introduction by Peter Brook); Miss America, Split Britches and 48 Minutes for Palestine, Mojisola Adebayo and Ashtar Theatre.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408139979
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works and contextualises their reading by revealing how a script can emerge from or provoke a collaborative devising process. The works featured include: Hotel Methuselah, Imitating the Dog/Pete Brooks; Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo?, Athletes of the Heart; A Girl Skipping, Graeme Miller; Trans-Acts, Julia Bardsley; US, 1966 (with an introduction by Peter Brook); Miss America, Split Britches and 48 Minutes for Palestine, Mojisola Adebayo and Ashtar Theatre.
Data Analysis with R
Author: Tony Fischetti
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785286447
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Load, wrangle, and analyze your data using the world's most powerful statistical programming language About This Book Load, manipulate and analyze data from different sources Gain a deeper understanding of fundamentals of applied statistics A practical guide to performing data analysis in practice Who This Book Is For Whether you are learning data analysis for the first time, or you want to deepen the understanding you already have, this book will prove to an invaluable resource. If you are looking for a book to bring you all the way through the fundamentals to the application of advanced and effective analytics methodologies, and have some prior programming experience and a mathematical background, then this is for you. What You Will Learn Navigate the R environment Describe and visualize the behavior of data and relationships between data Gain a thorough understanding of statistical reasoning and sampling Employ hypothesis tests to draw inferences from your data Learn Bayesian methods for estimating parameters Perform regression to predict continuous variables Apply powerful classification methods to predict categorical data Handle missing data gracefully using multiple imputation Identify and manage problematic data points Employ parallelization and Rcpp to scale your analyses to larger data Put best practices into effect to make your job easier and facilitate reproducibility In Detail Frequently the tool of choice for academics, R has spread deep into the private sector and can be found in the production pipelines at some of the most advanced and successful enterprises. The power and domain-specificity of R allows the user to express complex analytics easily, quickly, and succinctly. With over 7,000 user contributed packages, it's easy to find support for the latest and greatest algorithms and techniques. Starting with the basics of R and statistical reasoning, Data Analysis with R dives into advanced predictive analytics, showing how to apply those techniques to real-world data though with real-world examples. Packed with engaging problems and exercises, this book begins with a review of R and its syntax. From there, get to grips with the fundamentals of applied statistics and build on this knowledge to perform sophisticated and powerful analytics. Solve the difficulties relating to performing data analysis in practice and find solutions to working with “messy data”, large data, communicating results, and facilitating reproducibility. This book is engineered to be an invaluable resource through many stages of anyone's career as a data analyst. Style and approach Learn data analysis using engaging examples and fun exercises, and with a gentle and friendly but comprehensive "learn-by-doing" approach.
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785286447
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Load, wrangle, and analyze your data using the world's most powerful statistical programming language About This Book Load, manipulate and analyze data from different sources Gain a deeper understanding of fundamentals of applied statistics A practical guide to performing data analysis in practice Who This Book Is For Whether you are learning data analysis for the first time, or you want to deepen the understanding you already have, this book will prove to an invaluable resource. If you are looking for a book to bring you all the way through the fundamentals to the application of advanced and effective analytics methodologies, and have some prior programming experience and a mathematical background, then this is for you. What You Will Learn Navigate the R environment Describe and visualize the behavior of data and relationships between data Gain a thorough understanding of statistical reasoning and sampling Employ hypothesis tests to draw inferences from your data Learn Bayesian methods for estimating parameters Perform regression to predict continuous variables Apply powerful classification methods to predict categorical data Handle missing data gracefully using multiple imputation Identify and manage problematic data points Employ parallelization and Rcpp to scale your analyses to larger data Put best practices into effect to make your job easier and facilitate reproducibility In Detail Frequently the tool of choice for academics, R has spread deep into the private sector and can be found in the production pipelines at some of the most advanced and successful enterprises. The power and domain-specificity of R allows the user to express complex analytics easily, quickly, and succinctly. With over 7,000 user contributed packages, it's easy to find support for the latest and greatest algorithms and techniques. Starting with the basics of R and statistical reasoning, Data Analysis with R dives into advanced predictive analytics, showing how to apply those techniques to real-world data though with real-world examples. Packed with engaging problems and exercises, this book begins with a review of R and its syntax. From there, get to grips with the fundamentals of applied statistics and build on this knowledge to perform sophisticated and powerful analytics. Solve the difficulties relating to performing data analysis in practice and find solutions to working with “messy data”, large data, communicating results, and facilitating reproducibility. This book is engineered to be an invaluable resource through many stages of anyone's career as a data analyst. Style and approach Learn data analysis using engaging examples and fun exercises, and with a gentle and friendly but comprehensive "learn-by-doing" approach.