Identifies more than four hundred rocks and minerals, explains how rocks form, and suggests clothing, equipment, and techniques for fieldwork

Rocks and Minerals (Macmillan Field Guide)

Science & Math

WRIGHT, DAVID

Bell, Pat

Earth Sciences

Macmillan General* Reference

At the age of seven, David Wright became totally deaf, consigned to the invisible dungeon from which was later to escape as a distinguished poet and critic. Written with humour, frankness and humility, this is both a personal account and a history of deafness.

Deafness: An Autobiography

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Perennial

Conceptual and applied, with emphasis on analyzing and interpreting Canadian data to make informed business decisions. The book draws students in using a conversational writing style and delivers content with a fresh, exciting approach that reflects the authors’ blend of teaching, consulting, and entrepreneurial experiences.\nKEY TOPICS: 
Introduction to Statistics; Data; Surveys and Sampling; Displaying and Describing Categorical Data; Displaying and Describing Quantitative Data; Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation; Introduction to Linear Regression; Randomness and Probability; Random Variables and Probability Distributions; Sampling Distributions; Confidence Intervals for Proportions; Testing Hypotheses about Proportions; Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Means; Comparing Two Means; Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Inference for Counts: Chi-Square Tests; Nonparametric Methods; Inference for Regression; Understanding Regression Residuals; Multiple Regression; Building Multiple Regression Models; Time Series Analysis; Decision Making and Risk; Quality Control\nMARKET: 
Appropriate for the Intro to Business Statistics-One or Two Term course.

Business Statistics, Third Canadian Edition

Business & Money

De Veaux, Richard

Velleman, Paul

Sharpe, Norean

Education & Reference

Pearson Canada

MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Business Statistics, Third Canadian Edition

Business Statistics, Third Canadian Edition, Loose Leaf Version

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About the Author\nNorean R. Sharpe, PhD, is Dean and the Joseph H. and Maria C. Schwartz Distinguished Chair at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University. As the chief academic officer of the Tobin College of Business, she is responsible for the curriculum for 2500 undergraduate business majors and 600 graduate students in one of seven MS/MBA programs, all supported by more than 150 faculty and staff on the Manhattan; Queens; Staten Island; and Rome, Italy campuses. Within the Tobin College is the Center for Enterprise Risk Management, the Applied Finance Institute, and the Global Business Stewardship Center, as well as the acclaimed School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science. 
Dr. Sharpe is an accomplished scholar, with 30 years of teaching experience at Yale University, Bowdoin College, Babson College, and Georgetown University -- and with more than 30 scholarly publications in analytics and statistics education. Her research interests include time series analysis, forecasting, analytics, and women’s roles in entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Dr. Sharpe earned her BA from Mt. Holyoke College, her MS from the University of North Carolina, and her PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. 
Richard D. De Veaux is an internationally known educator and consultant. He has taught at the Wharton School and the Princeton University School of Engineering, where he won a “Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence in Teaching.” He is the C. Carlisle and M. Tippit Professor of Statistics at Williams College, where he has taught since 1994. Dick has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards from the American Society for Quality. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). In 2008, he was named Statistician of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the ASA. Dick is also well known in industry, where for more than 30 years he has consulted for such Fortune 500 companies as American Express, Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, DuPont, Pillsbury, General Electric, and Chemical Bank. Because he consulted with Mickey Hart on his book Planet Drum, he has also sometimes been called the “Official Statistician for the Grateful Dead.” His real-world experiences and anecdotes illustrate many of this book’s chapters. 
Paul F. Velleman has an international reputation for innovative Statistics education. He is the author and designer of the multimedia Statistics program ActivStats, for which he was awarded the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computers in teaching statistics, and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. He also developed the award-winning statistics program Data Desk, and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL) (ASL.datadesk.com), which provides data sets for teaching Statistics. Paul’s understanding of using and teaching with technology informs much of this book’s approach. 
David Wright combines an Engineering Ph.D. from Cambridge University, UK, with his current position as Full Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management to provide a business perspective on renewable energy. Dr. Wright has taught in universities in North America, Europe, and Africa and has experience in government and in industry. In government, he has developed statistical models to evaluate the impact of industrial society on natural resource depletion. In industry, he has worked with solar power developers on the economic viability and risk assessment of solar power projects. He also has experience in the telecommunications industry on the impact of new technology on business. His university teaching and research includes the economics of solar energy, business statistics, and the smart electricity grid. In his research he collaborates with professors in engineering and with industrial partners. He is cited in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Canadian Business, an

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Business Statistics, Canadian Edition

Mid-century English Poetry, 1940-60 (Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Penguin

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