Dicing with Death: Living by Data 2nd Edition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108999867 | 339 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical statistics and public health data have become staples of newsfeeds worldwide, with infection rates, deaths, case fatality and the mysterious R figure featuring regularly. However, we don't all have the statistical background needed to translate this information into knowledge. In this lively account, Stephen Senn explains these statistical phenomena and demonstrates how statistics is essential to making rational decisions about medical care. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover developments of the last two decades and includes a new chapter on medical statistical challenges of COVID-19, along with additional material on infectious disease modelling and representation of women in clinical trials. Senn entertains with anecdotes, puzzles and paradoxes, while tackling big themes including: clinical trials and the development of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their risks or lack of them, smoking and lung cancer, and even the power of prayer.

Developmental Psychology and Young Children's Religious Education
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367436205 | 135 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Developmental Psychology and Young Children's Religious Education sets out to identify the conceptual pre-requisites for young children's religious education learning and clearly highlights the challenges that children and their teachers encounter in the RE educational process.

Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations: Comprehensive Case Studies in Program Evaluation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367229722 | 108 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations　provides extensive real-life examples of program evaluations that illustrate the various elements and steps in conducting a successful evaluation. The detailed and diverse range of case studies show the common elements, methods, approaches, and processes of program evaluations, while also demonstrating the way that good evaluators adapt and tailor those methods to the specific characteristics and needs of a given program.

Desert Raids with the SAS: Memories of Action, Capture and Escape by Gerald Hough
English | June 14, 2021 | ISBN: 139900722X | 208 pages | PDF | 6.48 Mb
Tony Hough's war started with ski training in the Alps in early 1940 preparing for winter warfare in Finland. Nothing came of that. Later that year, now an officer with 9th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, he sailed for North Africa. In March 1941, his under-gunned Battalion suffered a catastrophic baptism of fire in Libya from 15,000 troops and 500 tanks of Rommel's Afrika Korps.

James McCourt, "Delancey's Way"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0375403116 | PDF | pages: 379 | 17.2 mb
An operatic, satirical romp through (high and low) Washington - filled with politicos and pundits, divas and divine spirits - by the greatly admired author of Time Remaining and the cult classic Mawrdew Czgowchwz ("Bravo, James McCourt, a literary countertenor, in the exacting tradition of Firbank and Nabokov" - Susan Sontag).

Deepening Democracy:
Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032132841 | 267 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB

Data Visualization and Analysis in Second Language Research (Second Language Acquisition Research Series) By Guilherme D. Garcia
2021 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 0367469642 | PDF | 6 MB
This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binary, and scalar), helping readers to understand regression models fully and to apply them in their work. Garcia offers advanced coverage of Bayesian analysis, simulated data, exercises, implementable script code, and practical guidance on the latest R software packages. The book, also demonstrating the benefits to the L2 field of this type of statistical work, is a resource for graduate students and researchers in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and corpus linguistics who are interested in quantitative data analysis.

Elena Bollinger, "Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory "
English | ISBN: 103237974X | 2022 | 212 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining a need to revisit Russian canonical works, the detailed discursive analysis of the selected English texts exposes an intertextual remembering by duplication, thus contributing to the prevention of forgetting through the recuperation of still misrecollected cultural meanings. By creatively incorporating Russian intertextual elements into his work as a novelist, the author seems to insist on sweeping across and beyond national boundaries, revealing how frail the invention of tradition is when leading to the illusion of a solid collective memory and its political legitimation. The book considers not only a constructive dialogue between Barnes's fiction and Russian classical literature, but also this writer's interpretative, mostly imaginative, integration of Russian literature and culture into his work as a novelist. Exploring the double meaning of a literary metaphor as a mnemonic image of memory and a product of imagination, it offers a comprehensive analysis of Barnes's texts which play with intertextuality as an efficient tool of displacement of official memory, providing a deeper understanding of historical and cultural processes related to the constantly moving architecture of transcultural memory.

Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice By Chris Barker
2007 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 1412924154 | PDF | 9 MB
Chris Barker′s best-selling Cultural Studies has established itself as the leading undergraduate introduction to Cultural Studies. It takes the student through all they need to know: the theoretical foundations and developments of Cultural Studies and the questions that occupy the field today, from the multiple meanings of ′culture′ itself to ideology, language, subjectivity, sex, space, race, media, the urban, youth and resistance. With its concise, accessible definitions, stimulating activities, checked ′key points′, chapter summaries, and an expanded glossary, it is an indispensable tool for students and lecturers alike. This third edition is fully updated with: * a new chapter on electronic media and ′digital culture′; * major additions of material on the creative industries, culture jamming, new feminism and ′raunch culture′ and globalization; * all-new photographs presented with pedagogic activities; * biographical snapshots of key figures in cultural studies. This book is now even more the best-value one-stop shop for Cultural Studies. Chris Barker is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies.

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
English | October 13, 2009 | ASIN: B000TG1X9C, ISBN: 0061844039, 0062283251 | True AZW3 | 466 pages | 0.6 MB
The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of Flow.