"Important, timely . . . should be the basis for a national debate about how we each want to grow older and what kind of society we want to do it in." —John Rother, Group Executive Officer of Policy and Strategy, AARPThe aging of the boomer generation has unleashed a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the catastrophic pre...

Many will remember the segment of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in the Disney film Fantasia; it is a perfect metaphor for medical imaging as it stands today. The apprentice magician tests his nascent skills at sorcery by bringing common household items to life and putting them to work. At first, things go well, but eventually he loses control, and chaos ensues. Medical imaging, too, could spin out of control. The benefits of imaging are undeniable. In the past thirty years, innovati...

Emerging technologies generate data sets of increased size and complexity that require new or updated statistical inferential methods and scalable, reproducible software. These data sets often involve measurements of a continuous underlying process, and benefit from a functional data perspective. Functional Data Analysis with R presents many ideas for handling functional data including dimension reduction techniques, smoothing, functional regression, structured decompositi...

We all want to "make it" in work and in life, and you don’t need to be a star to do it. This book will help you see why we want fame - and give you ideas how. This book is funny, insightful and empowering. There are a million ways to get buzz today, press, instagram, videos, music. Now, start reading the paperback that can make you famous, rock star. How did they do it? From Lady Gaga to Wang Deshun to Nelson Mandela, from Michelle Phan to Michael Jordan to Perez Hilton to Paris to ELLEN t...