A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years. This reissue includes a new introduction revisiting the book's East End starting point in Dalston Lane, four additional chapters, and an insert of photographs taken in and around Dalston in the year of the book's first appearance.

A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London

History

Wright,Patrick

Europe

Radius Pr

This experimental "transfiction" transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries. It has been labeled literature, philosophy, economics, psychology, political science, and more. One thing is for sure, it is like nothing else in print today. This pioneering effort in operational writing, fusing form and content, with its manifold interpretations, was first published in the 1960s in Transatlantic Review, a literary journal. It soon became a cult favorite, being anthologized, and then published in the current book form. It was relevant decades ago, it is relevant today, and it will be relevant in decades to come.

Game: A Lesson

Kachigan, Sam Kash

Award-winning artist Mort Todd, in his inimitable drawing style, has captured the essence of over 100 of the most horrible types of people we encounter on a daily basis; from the loud and vulgar to the back-stabbers and cheats. Also, the bullies and show-offs; the angry and lazy; the mean, vain, selfish, and smelly; they're all here, and more! In addition to being an extremely funny book, it has moral and religious overtones, in the tradition of superhero comic art. The ingoing premise is that highlighting and fighting evil can be as effective as the Golden Rule for making this a better world. It just could be. Laugh and learn! Appropriate for all ages.

Over 100 Traits of Truly Horrible People: How to Be a Better Person

Humor & Entertainment

Todd, Mort

Humor

The sexual matrix: Boy meets girl on the evolutionary scale

This book contains a highly controversial treatment of a wide variety of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology topics, including behavioral gender differences, the psychodynamics of grooming, non-verbal communication, heredity of traits, mating & population dynamics, monogamy vs. polygamy, age-ism & longevity, beauty, brains, muscles & money, and human evolutionary prospects.  Departing from the traditional academic approach of caution, hedging, and narrow focus, the author cuts directly to the chase. Concentrating on clear-cut gender differences in grooming behavior, he asks why, for example, do females grow their hair longer than males, use more cosmetics, and dress more colorfully. Using a combination of his keen observational and analytical skills, lucid writing, and sometimes-irreverent humor, he interweaves well-documented data and many wide-ranging topics into the "minimax principle of gender dynamics," a parsimonious theory of gender differences that has aroused the wrath of the mainstream politically correct academic community.

The Sexual Matrix: Boy Meets Girl on the Evolutionary Scale

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Fractal Notion: A Modern Analytical Tool

Science & Math

Mathematics

This classic multivariate statistics book has become the introduction of choice for researchers and students with a minimal mathematics background. In addition to providing a review of fundamental statistical methods, it provides a basic treatment of advanced computer-based multivariate analytical techniques; including correlation and regression analysis, analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and multidimensional scaling. The conceptual treatment emphasizes the rationales, applications, and interpretations, rather than the theoretical mathematical aspects of the most commonly used data analysis techniques in use today, closing the gap between spiraling technology and its intelligent application, providing students and researchers with a decided advantage in their future studies and careers. 
Its conceptual non-mathematical approach is especially helpful to students, researchers, and managers in the social and health sciences, education, and business. It is also the ideal springboard for those who will pursue advanced study of these powerful multivariate techniques.

Multivariate Statistical Analysis: A Conceptual Introduction, 2nd Edition

Pursuing his thesis that female beauty along with male talent are the twin engines of human evolutionary development, avant garde photographer and filmmaker Sam Kash has devoted this photo monograph to what he refers to as "transcendent beauty"-- rare youthful beauty that cannot be defined in words, but requires actual examples for its definition: "...a beauty that is in flux, that is in radiant bloom, that is arching in time, that may peak on any given day, indeed at any given moment, and then inevitably begin a qualitative change, gone in that constellation forever, never to return to that moment again, except, according to plan, in the next generation borne of that beauty." Much like flowers that bud, then bloom for their fleeting day in the sun, but the difference here is that these rare flowers are each one of a kind.

Surf Goddesses: Beauty Meets the Beach

Arts & Photography

Kash, Sam

Individual Artists

This is an expanded edition of the author's "Multivariate Statistical Analysis." Twice as long, it includes all the material in that edition, but has a more extensive treatment of introductory methods, especially hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, and experimental design. It also introduces time series analysis, decision analysis, and more advanced probability topics (see the accompanying table of contents). It has been used as a textbook at the graduate level at over 300 leading universities, in over a dozen academic disciplines, including education, business, and the social and health sciences. Like its abridged edition, it has been acclaimed for its lucid treatment of difficult statistical concepts.

Statistical Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Univariate & Multivariate Methods

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