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Author: Andrew Gelman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110702398X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 551
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A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.
Author: Andrew Gelman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110702398X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 551
Book Description
A practical approach to using regression and computation to solve real-world problems of estimation, prediction, and causal inference.
Author: Percival Everett Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555970389 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. In Assumption, his follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.
Author: Jonah Rosenfeld Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815654936 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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A major literary figure and frequent contributor to the Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, Jonah Rosenfeld was recognized during and after his lifetime as an explorer of human psychology. His work foregrounds loneliness, social anxiety, and people’s frustrated longing for meaningful relationships—themes just as relevant to today’s Western society as they were during his era. The Rivals and Other Stories introduces nineteen of Rosenfeld’s short stories to an English-reading audience for the first time. Unlike much of Yiddish literature that offers a sentimentalized view of the tight knit communities of early twentieth-century Jewish life, Rosenfeld’s stories portray an entirely different view of pre-war Jewish families. His stories are urban, domestic dramas that probe the often painful disjunctions between men and women, parents and children, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles, self and society. They explore eroticism and family dysfunction in narratives that were often shocking to readers at the time they were published. Following the Modernist tradition, Rosenfeld rejected many established norms, such as religion and the assumption of absolute truth. Rather, his work is rooted in psychological realism, portraying the inner lives of alienated individuals who struggle to construct a world in which they can live. These deeply moving, empathetic stories provide a counterbalance to the prevailing idealized portrait of shtetl life and enrich our understanding of Yiddish literature.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher: Tin House Books ISBN: 1947793004 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 124
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Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.
Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds Publisher: EverAfter Romance ISBN: 9781682308967 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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as•sump•tion: a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof They say when you assume that you make an ass out of you and me. Kenton Mayson learned this lesson firsthand when he made assumptions about Autumn Freeman and the kind of woman she is based on what little information he had. What he finds out is she’s not only beautiful, but also smart, funny, a fighter, and exactly the kind of woman he wants to share his life with. Autumn made assumptions of her own about Kenton, and now he needs to prove her wrong in order to protect her and their future.
Author: Terrence Murphy Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475956614 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 415
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On a blustery December morning Tommy Rowley parks his old Volvo behind the Pius XII Auditorium, carefully places his college acceptance letter on the passenger seat, pulls up his collar against the wind, and walks into the woods. Minutes later he ends his life, hoping to bury a secret forever. Almost eight years later, a glowing window is discovered during a power outage on the campus of a Boston hospital. After some claim to see an image of the Virgin Mary in the window, Saint Katherines Hospital quickly becomes a magnet for the devout, the curious, and the profit-mindedjust as the Catholic Churchs sexual abuse scandal is spinning out of control. Meanwhile, stories of blackmail and conspiracy surface, secrets are revealed, and events escalate to a violent and unanticipated climax. As one of the characters says, Theres no end to the Tommy Rowley tragedy. In this fast-paced and suspenseful novel the plans and motives of its colorful characters emerge and finally erupt into open conflict. At once satiric and spiritual, comic and deeply serious, Murphys fiction plunges readers into a vibrant community of strong traditions and beliefs whose shared culture cannot conceal its fierce rivalries, and the constant threat of its ideals from secular and clerical opportunists. The story will captivate anyone who has pondered the actions of people mesmerized by unexplained phenomena. The questions it raisesof the proper response to evil acts, of the durability of loyalty, of competing visions of justicewill stay with readers long after the story ends.
Author: Tracey Jerald Publisher: ISBN: 9781959299066 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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For the last ten years, I've guarded the gate to my heart.I've lived under a shroud of despair after I was emotionally devastated. I isolated myself to avoid seeing my name in the media since I was thrown to the wolves.But that was then, and this is now.As the legal assistant for an entertainment law firm, I'm the gatekeeper into the heart of the deal. Even as I handle celebrities all day long, I try to avoid becoming the focus of the media's attention. Because I know full well once I become their target, I can never run far enough to avoid their attention.Ever.I've struggled with fears of opening myself up to the kind of vulnerability necessary to fall in love. I had a strong conviction love was meant for someone else until one day something slipped.Who knew dropping that cup of coffee all over my grumpy boss may have been the best thing to happen to both of us?On the surface, Ward Burke has it all.A handsome lawyer, I know he doesn't need to work if the scandal sheets declaring him a billionaire are anything to go by. But he's never noticed me before now.Or has he?We start to realize we've been making some pretty big assumptions about each other.He's game to taking our relationship to a different level, but I'm terrified it's going to set off a sequence of events I'm not prepared to handle.And quite possibly prove I'm not quite done paying for what happened in the past.
Author: Martin Preib Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226679810 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 176
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Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department—a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib’s daily life on the job, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City chronicles the outer and inner lives of both a Chicago cop and the city itself. The book follows Preib as he transports body bags, forges an unlikely connection with his female partner, trains a younger officer, and finds himself among people long forgotten—or rendered invisible—by the rest of society. Preib recounts how he navigates the tenuous labyrinths of race and class in the urban metropolis, such as a domestic disturbance call involving a gang member and his abused girlfriend or a run-in with a group of drunk yuppies. As he encounters the real and imagined geographies of Chicago, the city reveals itself to be not just a backdrop, but a central force in his narrative of life and death. Preib’s accounts, all told in his breathtaking prose, come alive in ways that readers will long remember.
Author: David Levithan Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375849424 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
Author: Andrew Gelman
Author: Andrew Gelman
Author: Percival Everett
Author: Jonah Rosenfeld
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds
Author: Terrence Murphy
Author: Tracey Jerald
Author: Percival Everett
Author: Martin Preib
Author: David Levithan