Adaptive Survey Design (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Science & Math

Wagner, James

Schouten, Barry

Peytchev, Andy

Mathematics

Chapman and Hall/CRC

A retired New York-cop-turned-private-eye reveals the shady side of security, surveillance, and investigations as he tells of his own wild, hilarious experiences with blackmail, child custody, kidnapping, the Mob, and more. Reprint.

Jimmy the Wags: Street Stories of a Private Eye

Biographies & Memoirs

Picciarelli, Patrick

True Crime

BERKLEY

In a fascinating look behind the badge of the NYPD, a veteran former street cop describes the drama of working in New York's toughest precinct, from the 1960s to the 1980s, offering anecdotes about his fellow cops, colorful and violent miscreants, celebrity misdeeds, and more. Original.

My Life in the NYPD:: Jimmy the Wags

Professionals & Academics

NAL.

False Sun Recordings

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

3rd Bed Books

State Militia: My Decade With Warriors And The Wicked

Leaders & Notable People

Jim Wagner

Adaptive survey designs (ASDs) provide a framework for data-driven tailoring of data collection procedures to different sample members, often for cost and bias reduction. People vary in how likely they are to respond and in how they respond. This variation leads to opportunities to selectively deploy design features in order to control both nonresponse and measurement errors. ASD aims at the optimal matching of design features and the characteristics of respondents given the survey budget. Such a goal is sensible, but ASD requires investment in more advanced technical systems and management infrastructure and asks for the collection of relevant auxiliary data. So what are current best practices in ASD? And is ASD worthwhile when the same auxiliary data are employed in the estimation afterwards? In this book, the authors provide answers to these questions, and much more.

Appealing to both historians and enthusiasts GMC Light Duty Trucks is a chronological overview of the popular General Motors vehicles that have been long considered Pontiac's trucks. It begins by tracing their roots to the year 1902 and origins as the long-departed Rapid and Reliance brands. The story continues with the pair joining an emergent General Motors and 1912 consolidation as GMC. A discussion of significant early milestones follows: Model 15 of 1914 the first "true" GMC; the role of GMC's military vehicles during the First World War; and, the impact of General Motors' acquiring Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company, which it merged with General Motors Truck Company and led to the wide range of GMC light duties when Yellowcab trucks, the Pontiac Delivery and Chevrolet Commercial Bodies were integrated into the evolving GMC line. Next the important middle years are reviewed, highlighting effects of GM's corporate styling leadership on GMC; the offering expansion of the immediate pre-World War II era that brought several distinctive types to the line-up; the all-new 1939 model light truck engine, cab and bodies; contributions to the Second World War allied military effort; and, the birth of GMC Truck &amp; Coach Division. The major postwar styling and functional redesigns of 1947 and 1955 are covered in detail along with the arrival of civilian 4x4 pickups and, in particular, the ambitious Breakthrough Engineering efforts for 1960, culminating in the V-6 engine program that marked the high tide of GMC uniqueness. The book concludes by summarizing the past three decades when a broadening diversity of added models-sport utilities, diesels, full-size and mini vans, multi-purpose vehicles, and compact and mid-size pickups contributed to a massive growth in customer acceptance.

GMC Light-Duty Trucks: An Enthusiast's Reference

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Ertel Publishing, Inc.

Work Book

Arts & Photography

Arceneux, Edgar

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Nothingmoments Pub

The Hypothetical Man is a darkly humorous collection of stories featuring an assortment of anonymous characters A, B, and S. They work either undercover at an amusement park in Illinois or at a secret government facility that would prefer not to be named. They attend a freewheeling sales meeting with death masks on the wall. Some raise pigs, others race goats. One lives in a suburban home where he watches his wife with another man. They are, together, misled, misunderstood, and mistaken often, but their pursuit of answers never ends. Paul Maliszewski is the author of Fakers and Prayer and Parable. His work has appeared in Harper's, Granta, Bookforum, The Paris Review, and Bomb. He lives in Washington, DC.
James Wagner is the author of Thrown: poems to paintings with Bracha L. Ettinger, Work Book, Trilce, and the false sun recordings. He lives in California.

The Hypothetical Man

Humor & Entertainment

Maliszewski, Paul

Humor

TRNSFR

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