David Williamson


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Quantitative Ethnography


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How can we make sense of make sense of the deluge of information in the digital age? The new science of Quantitative Ethnography dissolves the boundaries between quantitative and qualitative research to give researchers tools for studying the human side of big data: to understand not just what data says, but what it tells us about the people who created it. Thoughtful, literate, and humane, Quantitative Ethnography integrates data-mining, discourse analysis, psychology, statistics, and ethnography into a brand-new science for understanding what people do and why they do it. Packed with anecdotes, stories, and clear explanations of complex ideas, Quantitative Ethnography is an engaging introduction to research methods for students, an introduction to data science for qualitative researchers, and an introduction to the humanities for statisticians--but also a compelling philosophical and intellectual journey for anyone who wants to understand learning, culture and behavior in the age of big data.




The Club by David Williamson


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Money and Friends


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THE STORY: Peter, a professor of pure mathematics, weekends at Crystal Inlet as do most of his friends: Conrad (a star television reporter) and his wife Jaquie; Stephen (a surgeon) and his wife Penny; Alex (a mega-lawyer) and his wife Vicki; and Ma




Twelve Powers in You


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Twelve Powers in You re-introduces the idea popularized by Unity Church leader Charles Filmore that the body has twelve powers: faith, wisdom, enthusiasm, power, imagination, understanding, love, order, life, strength, release and will. These twelve powers are not separate from the physical body, but are expressed through it. This fascinating book teaches readers how to access these dynamic powers to bring them healing, love and success. Authors David Williamson, a minister, Gay Lynn Williamson, a psychotherapist, and Robert Knapp, a medical doctor, have spent most of their lives exploring the terrain of our whole being. Now, they've incorporated their comprehensive and unique blend of skills to help readers-as they have helped thousands of others in their practices and ministry-explore and develop the Twelve Powers inherent within everyone. Using a whole-brain learning approach that incorporates visualizations, affirmations, exercises and case studies, the book is comprehensive yet easily accessible. Readers will learn how others have healed themselves by harnessing their twelve powers, learn how to express each power in themselves in a healthy way and gain medical expertise on how each power externalizes within a particular organ or body system. This must-have book makes a marvelous self-study course on self-improvement for the whole year.




The Design of Approximation Algorithms


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Discrete optimization problems are everywhere, from traditional operations research planning problems, such as scheduling, facility location, and network design; to computer science problems in databases; to advertising issues in viral marketing. Yet most such problems are NP-hard. Thus unless P = NP, there are no efficient algorithms to find optimal solutions to such problems. This book shows how to design approximation algorithms: efficient algorithms that find provably near-optimal solutions. The book is organized around central algorithmic techniques for designing approximation algorithms, including greedy and local search algorithms, dynamic programming, linear and semidefinite programming, and randomization. Each chapter in the first part of the book is devoted to a single algorithmic technique, which is then applied to several different problems. The second part revisits the techniques but offers more sophisticated treatments of them. The book also covers methods for proving that optimization problems are hard to approximate. Designed as a textbook for graduate-level algorithms courses, the book will also serve as a reference for researchers interested in the heuristic solution of discrete optimization problems.




Emerald City


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David Williamson


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Provides a personal view of the man and analyses the content and success of his work.