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Statistics in Context

By: Barbara Blatchley

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Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Statistics--Who Needs Them? -- Chapter 2 Types of Data -- Chapter 3 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Creating and Interpreting Graphics -- Chapter 4 Measures of Central Tendency: What's So Average about the Mean? -- Chapter 5 Variability: The "Law of Life" -- Chapter 6 Where Am I? Normal Distributions and Standard Scores -- Chapter 7 Basic Probability Theory -- Chapter 8 The Central Limit Theorem and Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 9 The z-Test -- Chapter 10 The t-Test -- Chapter 11 Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 12 Confidence Intervals and Effect Size: Building a Better Mousetrap -- Chapter 13 Correlation and Regression: Are We Related? -- Chapter 14 The Chi-Square Test -- Chapter 15 Non-parametric Tests -- Chapter 16 Which Test Should I Use and Why?

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190278951

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What Are the Chances?

Why We Believe in Luck

By: Barbara Blatchley

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What Are the Chances?

Why We Believe in Luck

By: Barbara Blatchley

Winner, 2023 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association Division 1 in General Psychology Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, good and bad breaks, with outcomes as random as a roll of the dice—or can our beliefs help change our luck? What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people—who won the lottery multiple times, survived seven brushes with death, or found an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy—as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances? shows why an arguably irrational belief can—fingers crossed—help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world.

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Columbia University Press

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0231552750

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9780231552752

What Are the Chances?

Why We Believe in Luck

By: Barbara Blatchley

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Why We Believe in Luck

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The Best Police in the World

An Oral History of English Policing from the 1930s to the 1960s

By: Barbara Weinberger

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The Best Police in the World

An Oral History of English Policing from the 1930s to the 1960s

By: Barbara Weinberger

Based on interviews with former police officers, this book addresses two main issues. Firstly, the question of how the police themselves viewed the priorities of the job and what they considered their role to be. This is the first study to consider this question and its implications for the style and content of police work. Secondly, it challenges the view of the prewar period as a "Golden Age", and shows that policing from the 1930s to the 1960s was not as unproblematic as has often been assumed. Police violence and the fabrication of evidence were more prevalent than the cosy image of the British TV series Dixon of Dock Green would have us believe. The fact that this image often went unchallenged has much to do with prevailing concepts of masculinity and with the greater moral certitude of the police within a more stable and stratified society.

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Routledge

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1351894072

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part B

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part B

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.

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Lulu.com

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1312890290

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9781312890299

The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part C

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part C

By: Barbara Jean Mathews

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1329670647

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Great Britons of Stage and Screen

In Conversation

By: Barbara Roisman Cooper

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Great Britons of Stage and Screen

In Conversation

By: Barbara Roisman Cooper

Although there are encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries of contemporary British film and theatre actors, most lack the intimacy of face-to-face interviews. Typically drawn from secondary sources, collections of interviews often repeat tired anecdotes about an actor’s film or stage roles, with very little nuance or fresh insights. Great Britons of Stage and Screen: In Conversation features interviews with some of the leading actors of the last fifty years and more. In this collection, Barbara Roisman Cooper presents interviews she personally conducted with more than twenty stars of film, television, and theatre. Held in intimate surroundings—including the actors’ private homes and theatre dressing rooms between performances—these interviews provide readers with a rounded understanding of the creative process and the dedication required to develop a performance. Including many well-known Oscar, Tony, Olivier, and BAFTA winners, each interview is preceded by a short introduction and followed by the performer’s most significant credits, both on the stage and screen. The actors and actresses who shared their stories in this volume include Dame Eileen Atkins Isla Blair Simon Callow Dame Joan Collins Peggy Cummins Sinéad Cusack Samantha Eggar Stephen Fry Julian Glover Stephen Greif Jeremy Irons Sir Derek Jacobi Felicity Kendal Sir Ben Kingsley Dame Angela Lansbury Sir John Mills Alfred Molina Lynn Redgrave Jean Simmons David Suchet Richard Todd Michael York Designed to serve as a resource for those studying or writing about the worlds of theatre and film in general—and the art and craft of acting, specifically—Great Britons of Stage and Screen will also appealto the many fans of the artists who have entertained audiences for decades.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442246219

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9781442246218

Houses for a New World

Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965

By: Barbara Miller Lane

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Houses for a New World

Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965

By: Barbara Miller Lane

The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century’s most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses—most of them in new ranch and split-level styles—were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country’s rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life—informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live. Featured housing developments in Houses for a New World: Boston area: Governor Francis Farms (Warwick, RI) Wethersfield (Natick, MA) Brookfield (Brockton, MA) Chicago area: Greenview Estates (Arlington Heights, IL) Elk Grove Village Rolling Meadows Weathersfield at Schaumburg Los Angeles and Orange County area: Cinderella Homes (Anaheim, CA) Panorama City (Los Angeles) Rossmoor (Los Alamitos, CA) Philadelphia area: Lawrence Park (Broomall, PA) Rose Tree Woods (Broomall, PA)

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Princeton University Press

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0691246424

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9780691246420

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Statistics in Context

Statistics in Context

What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances?

What Are the Chances?

The Best Police in the World

The Best Police in the World

The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part B

The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part B

The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part C

The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 3, Part C

Great Britons of Stage and Screen

Great Britons of Stage and Screen

Houses for a New World

Houses for a New World

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