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  The Theory That Would Not Die -...

  Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

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  Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into roughly its modern form by French scientist Pierre Simon Laplace. She reveals why respected statisticians rendered it professionally taboo for one hundred and fifty years-at the same time that practitioners relied on it to solve crises involving great uncertainty and scanty information, even breaking Germany's Enigma code during World War II, and explains how the advent of off-the-shelf computer technology in the 1980s proved to be a game-changer. Today, Bayes' rule is used everywhere from DNA decoding to Homeland Security.Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, The Theory That Would Not Die is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest controversies of all time.

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  Losing Earth - A Recent History

  Nathaniel Rich

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  By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change — including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story and ours.The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon — the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight.Now expanded into audiobook form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil-fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The audiobook carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves.Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here and how we must go forward.

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  Data Visualization - Clear...

  Alex Campbell

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  Are you a budding data scientist or aspire to be one someday? Have you ever wondered about all the data that is constantly in motion around the world? Does it surprise you when Netflix gives you suggestions for your next movie and it is very close to your taste in movies? Would you like to know more about data and how it is used regularly to influence every action you take? Do you want to know how businesses with a turnover in millions make critical decisions to make or break their business? Do you wonder how humans can process huge data for their decision-making? All this can be achieved through data in the form of visual representations. If you are curious to know the answers to all these questions, then this is the right book for you. 
  The tools in this book will help you get a first impression of data science and how Python can be used extensively to create beautiful visuals to turn raw data into stories. The book will take you through: 
  ·      The need for data visualization today 
  ·      The concepts and techniques of data visualization 
  ·      The various tools available to achieve data visualization 
  ·      Data visualization libraries in Python 
  ·      The Pareto Chart 
  ·      Regression and Classification using Python 
  This book has been designed for you to understand data visualization using Python. There are step by step guides and images with code snippets throughout the book to help you get your hands dirty by creating your own data visuals. So, here’s hoping that this book helps you find your appetite to become a data scientist with a mystery in presenting data through effective visualizations someday. Click the Buy Now button to get started!

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  Great Big Treasury of Beatrix...

  Beatrix Potter

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  Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter will warm the hearts both of those who remember her fondly from their childhoods and those who discover for the first time the magic of these timeless stories. (Summary by Chip)

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  Science: an Introductory Reader...

  Rudolf Steiner

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  From pre-science to science; The origin of mathematics; The roots of physics and chemistry, and the urge to experiment; Are there limits to what science can know?; Understanding organisms: Goethe's method; The quest for archetypal phenomena; Light, darkness and colour; The rediscovery of the elements; What is warmth?; The scale of nature; The working of the ethers in the physical; Sub-nature; What are atoms?; Natural science and spiritual science.

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  Physical Therapist Career...

  Brian Mahoney

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