One Naked Individual
Author : Cheryl Crawford
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Theatrical producers and directors
ISBN :
Author : Cheryl Crawford
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Theatrical producers and directors
ISBN :
Author : Charles Wheelan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0393089827
A New York Times bestseller "Brilliant, funny…the best math teacher you never had." —San Francisco Chronicle Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you’ll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more. For those who slept through Stats 101, this book is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis. He clarifies key concepts such as inference, correlation, and regression analysis, reveals how biased or careless parties can manipulate or misrepresent data, and shows us how brilliant and creative researchers are exploiting the valuable data from natural experiments to tackle thorny questions. And in Wheelan’s trademark style, there’s not a dull page in sight. You’ll encounter clever Schlitz Beer marketers leveraging basic probability, an International Sausage Festival illuminating the tenets of the central limit theorem, and a head-scratching choice from the famous game show Let’s Make a Deal—and you’ll come away with insights each time. With the wit, accessibility, and sheer fun that turned Naked Economics into a bestseller, Wheelan defies the odds yet again by bringing another essential, formerly unglamorous discipline to life.
Author : Brett Lunceford
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739177028
Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display. The actions examined range from grassroots protests to those of professionalized social movement organizations. Specifically, Lunceford examines PETA and the use of chained women and the Running of the Nudes; lactivists, or women engaging in public breastfeeding as protest action in both online and physical space; the World Naked Bike Ride’s worldwide protest against oil dependency and attempt to raise awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists; and a contest held on College Humor that invited women to write their preferred presidential candidate on their exposed breasts and send the picture to them to post on the site. Although these actions may seem to have little in common beyond their use of body exposure, they all share the notions that something can happen when you take your clothes off and that the act of disrobing can have social and political consequences. Moreover, these groups illustrate the often paradoxical views of the exposed body—by both the participants and the observers—and how such bodies operate in the public sphere. Even when the voice is silent, the body still speaks; Naked Politics considers what is being said.
Author : Jeannie Davide-Rivera
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Asperger's syndrome
ISBN : 9780615801438
Jeannie grew up with autism, but no one around her knew it. Twirling Naked in the Streets will take you on a journey into the mind of a child on the autism spectrum; a child who grows into an adolescent, an adult, and becomes a wife, mother, student, and writer with autism. This is a gripping memoir of a quirky, weird, but gifted child who grows up never quite finding her niche. It took 38 years to discover that all the issues, problems, and weirdness she experienced were because she had Asperger's Syndrome (AS), a form of high-functioning autism. The tale begins at age three and takes us all the way through her diagnosis. Along the way she explains autism in a way that will have fellow "Aspies" crying tears of joy at being understood, and "neuro-typical" people really starting to grasp the challenges that autistic people face every moment of every day.
Author : Paul Green
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807821053
A selection of letters that sums up the life of a literary Southerner, who veered away from the commonly held views of his segregated town
Author : Ed Stafford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0698145747
What do you do after you walk the Amazon? Ed Stafford—adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River—likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing—no food, water, or even clothing—except the video cameras he would use to document his time. Detailing Stafford’s jaw-dropping sojourn on the island of Olourua, Naked and Marooned is a tale of unparalleled adventure and of one man’s will to push himself to the outer limits—and survive.
Author : Lisa Renee Jones
Publisher :
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781091111349
One man can change everything. That man can touch you and you tremble all over. That man can wake you up and allow you to breathe when life leaves you unable to catch your breath. For me that ONE MAN is Jax North. He's handsome, brutally so, and wealthy, money and power easily at his fingertips. He's dark, and yet, he can make me smile with a single look or word. He's a force when he walks into a room.Our first encounter is intense, overwhelmingly intense. I go with it. I go with him and how can I not? He's that ONE MAN for me and what a ride it is. But there are things about me that he doesn't know, he can't know, so I say goodbye. Only you don't say goodbye to a man like Jax if he doesn't want you to. I've challenged him without trying. He wants me. I don't want to want him, and yet, I crave him. He tears me down, my resistance, my walls. But those walls protect me. They seal my secrets inside. And I forget that being alone is safe. I forget that there are reasons I can't be with Jax North. I forget that once he knows, everything will change.Because I need him.Because he's my ONE MAN.
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : New York : D. McKay Company
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Liberty
ISBN :
Examines the invasion of privacy in the United States by government, business, and education. Describes surveillance techniques and tools of investigative experts.
Author : Evangeline Anderson
Publisher : Swerve
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250142040
Sadie Becker is not herself. A 40-year-old, divorced mother of two, Sadie wakes up one morning and realizes that she looks and feels like she did in her twenties. Suddenly she’s unable to walk around in her new town of Cougarville without men falling at her feet. Confused and alone, Sadie isn’t sure who to turn to...except answers to her problems might reside with her broodingly handsome reclusive neighbor, Mathis. An alpha shifter, Mathis lost the love of his life, and he knows he’ll never find another mate. But his innocent new neighbor clearly doesn’t know the danger she’s in, and he's the only one who can save her. But when the attraction pulls too strong, will Mathis’ animal nature be unleashed and claim Sadie for his own? Evangeline Anderson's Buck Naked is a sexy, emotional thrill-ride that will hook readers on this fantastic new series.
Author : Autum Augusta
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1698715412
Testimonies and the thing that happened at the school.