Wild Trails to Far Horizons

Beatty, John

Cudahy, Michael

Sports & Outdoors

HarperCollins, Publishers

Wetlands: An Exploration of the Lost Wilderness of East Anglia

Travel

Quayle, Brendan

Denyer, Richard

BELLAMY, David

Europe

Pan/Macmillan

This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society.

The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context, Series Number 12)

Science & Math

Gigerenzer, Gerd

Daston, Lorraine

Swijtink, Zeno

Porter, Theodore

Krüger, Lorenz

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

History & Philosophy

The Citizen-Soldier

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

BiblioLife

This book tells a story in words and photographs of a secret ritual going back six centuries. Once a year, ten chosen men from the Isle of Lewis spend a fortnight on a rock in the Atlantic. They kill 2000 gannets, pluck and salt them, then stack them in "altars" to await the boat back to Lewis. Here they are met by a throng of islanders eager to receive their annual bird. Although the NCC has set the figure of 2000 birds, this is not a cull. John Beatty is one of the first outsiders in living memory to be allowed on to the island.

Sula

Literature & Fiction

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

When Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, John Beatty left his bank job in Ohio to answer President Lincoln€™s call for soldiers. Within a short while he was commanding the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, as green to combat as his men. The diary he kept from June 1861 to January 1864 shows how well they did their fearful job without losing their humanity.In October 1862 the Ohio regiment lost nearly forty percent of its five hundred men on the field at Perryville. After heavy fighting at Stone€™s River the following year, Beatty was promoted to brigadier general. In these pages the cost of union is carefully weighed by an intelligent and modest man who never glorifies war. Advancing through the South with the Army of the Cumberland, he lives to tell about the horrific battles at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Whether describing large events in Kentucky, Tennessee, and elsewhere or the quiet times of camp life, Beatty never loses personal perspectiv

The Citizen-Soldier: The Memoirs of a Civil War Volunteer

Historical

Bison Books

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The Citizen-Soldier; Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer (Collector's Library of the Civil War)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Time-Life Education

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The citizen-soldier, or, Memoirs of a volunteer (Collector's library of the Civil War)

History

Americas

Time-Life-Books

The Citizen-Soldier, Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

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