Baseball tells its story as one of progress. But what if that story is incomplete?In PLAYING BALL WHILE JEWISH, Prejudice and Silence in Major League Baseball*,* Robert L. Hirsch takes on a question few have been willing to ask directly: if antisemitism in Major League Baseball is a thing of the past, why does the data tell a different story?For 125 years, Jewish representation in Major League Baseball has remained strikingly low with litt...

Sabina Mazer's life is shattered when her husband, Dr. Amir Mazer, a respected medical genius, is arrested for committing heinous crimes linked to terrorism. Once a devoted housewife and a covert fundraiser for extremist organizations, Sabina's carefully constructed world is torn apart. With her husband behind bars and her own criminal past now exposed, she must flee for her life.Using a new identity, Sabina escapes with the help of her trusted Imam, but her path to safety is fraug...

Gathered here for the first time are the original stories written in the early days of production on the internationally acclaimed television series SPACE: 1999. Uncover the differences between Gerry and Sylvia Anderson' s original story Zero G, George Bellak' s first draft of The Void Ahead and Christopher Penfold' s uncredited shooting script Turning Point. Each of these tales show the evolution of the pilot episode with scenes and characters that never made it to the screen. Wonder at a...

La prise en charge de la douleur fait partie intégrante de la médecine, tant de ville qu'hospitalière : de nombreux acteurs sont engagés sur cet enjeu médical complexe et désormais reconnu, du médecin généraliste au spécialiste, y compris les spécialistes de la douleur. Ce nouvel ouvrage, publication de référence sur le sujet, leur est destiné. Il a pour objectif de permettre la compréhension des mécanismes en jeu, des différents types de douleurs et de donner toutes les clés pour une meil...

Religious war erupts between church and king and shapes a young man's fate in eleventh-century France . . .Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, seven-year-old Tristan de Saint-Germain has his fate thrown to the winds upon the execution of his father for treason against William the Conqueror of Normandy. Abandoned by his mother, who remarries and departs for England, Tristan and his four-year-old brother, Guillaume, find themselves thrown into the monastic w...

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the logic behind hypothesis testing. This updated edition covers frequentist (classical) and Bayesian approaches to interpretation of the results of a statistical hypothesis test. In a new chapter, nonparametric hypothesis testing is also discussed. The author describes the most commonly used statistical tests and provides instructions for how to perform them using Microsoft Office Excel. Readers will learn how to interpret P-values under a v...

An epic novel of the Crusades, the siege of Antioch, and a man and woman swept up in the bloody quest to reach Jerusalem.In 1097, Pope Urban's Army of God confronts the great city of Antioch, the final obstacle before reclaiming Jerusalem from the hammer of Islam. But Antioch is defended by the wily Turcoman, Emir Yaghi Siyan, and is coveted by the atabeg of Mosul, Kerbogha.After overcoming a tortuous trail of impossibility, separation, and heartbreak, Bishop...

The second edition of Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research delivers a thorough examination of the basic techniques and most commonly used statistical methods in health research. Retaining much of what was popular with the well-received first edition, the thoroughly revised second edition includes a new chapter on testing assumptions and how to evaluate whether those assumptions are satisfied and what to do if they are not.The newest edition contai...

*Workbook to accompany Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research with Microsoft Office Excel—*practical and methodological approach to the statistical logic of biostatistics in the field of health research.

A practical and methodological approach to the statistical logic of biostatistics in the field of health researchFocusing on a basic understanding of the methods and analyses in health research, Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research with Microsoft® Office Excel® provides statistical concepts for interpreting results using Excel. The book emphasizes the application of methods and presents the most common methodological procedures in...

Learn the secrets and steps to living a more meaningful lifeSuccess is what happens to you; significance is what happens through you. Do busy schedules at home and at work sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed and uninspired? Maybe you feel stuck in a rut, going through a treadmill of the same routines or bored at a job you don't love. If you want to get more out of life, this book will show you how. The authors' approach has been used successfully by many thousa...

Hirsch, Devaney, and Smale's classic Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos has been used by professors as the primary text for undergraduate and graduate level courses covering differential equations. It provides a theoretical approach to dynamical systems and chaos written for a diverse student population among the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Prominent experts provide everything students need to know about dynamical systems as student...