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Financial executive Verity Banks and her former mentor, Dr. Zoltan Tor, engage in a friendly--but highly illegal competition--as they steal a billion dollars and invest it. By the author of The Eight. Reprint. NYT. AB. .
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Famous for leading the Tokyo Raid, America's first strike against Japan in World War II, Jimmy Doolittle lived a remarkable life as an American pilot. This firsthand account by his granddaughter reveals an extraordinary individual—a scientist with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIT, an aviation pioneer who was the first to fly across the United States in less than 24 hours and the first to fly "blind" (using only his plane's instruments), a barnstormer well known for aerobatics, a popular racing pilot who won every major air race at least once, recipient of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and Presidential Medal of Freedom, a four-star general, and commander of the 8th, 12th, and 15th Air Forces. This memoir provides insights into the public and private world of Jimmy Doolittle and his family and sheds light on the drives and motivation's of one of America's most influential and ambitious aviators..
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics.

Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says that because we haven't learned statistical thinking, we don't understand risk and uncertainty. In order to assess risk -- everything from the risk of an automobile accident to the certainty or uncertainty of some common medical screening tests -- we need a basic understanding of statistics.

Astonishingly, doctors and lawyers don't understand risk any better than anyone else. Gigerenzer reports a study in which doctors were told the results of breast cancer screenings and then were asked to explain the risks of contracting breast cancer to a woman who received a positive result from a screening. The actual risk was small because the test gives many false positives. But nearly every physician in the study overstated the risk. Yet many people will have to make important health decisions based on such information and the interpretation of that information by their doctors.

Gigerenzer explains that a major obstacle to our understanding of numbers is that we live with an illusion of certainty. Many of us believe that HIV tests, DNA fingerprinting, and the growing number of genetic tests are absolutely certain. But even DNA evidence can produce spurious matches. We cling to our illusion of certainty because the medical industry, insurance companies, investment advisers, and election campaigns have become purveyors of certainty, marketing it like a commodity.

To avoid confusion, says Gigerenzer, we should rely on more understandable representations of risk, such as absolute risks. For example, it is said that a mammography screening reduces the risk of breast cancer by 25 percent. But in absolute risks, that means that out of every 1,000 women who do not participate in screening, 4 will die; while out of 1,000 women who do, 3 will die. A 25 percent risk reduction sounds much more significant than a benefit that 1 out of 1,000 women will reap.

This eye-opening book explains how we can overcome our ignorance of numbers and better understand the risks we may be taking with our money, our health, and our lives..
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You will:. Learn how to master this essential tool for greater efficiency and productivity on the jobsite.. Pick up tips to; use time-saving features and functions. Published by Calculated Industries and Thomson Delmar Learning.
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Calculated Bets describes a gambling system that works. Steven Skiena, a jai-alai enthusiast and computer scientist, documents how he used computer simulations and modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and increased his initial stake by 544% in one year. Skiena demonstrates how his jai-alai system functions like a stock trading system, and includes examples of how gambling and mathematics interact in program trading systems, how mathematical models are used in political polling, and what the future holds for Internet gambling. With humor and enthusiasm, Skiena explains computer predictions used in business, sports, and politics, and the difference between correlation and causation. An unusual presentation of how mathematical models are designed, built, and validated, Calculated Bets also includes a list of modeling projects with online data sources. Steven Skiena, Associate Professor of Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook, is the author of The Algorithm Design Manual (Springer-Verlag, 1997) and the EDUCOM award-winning Computational Discrete Mathematics. He is the recipient of the ONR Young Investigator's Award and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching at Stony Brook. His research interests include discrete mathematics and its applications, particularly the design of graph, string, and geometric algorithms..
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Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series, for the student with limited time

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its bigger predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights feature selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials..
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Collector's Edition - 60 Programs-30 Hours-20 Cassettes Suspense... radio's outstanding theatre of thrills came to radio in June of 1942. It was on the air for the next 20 years. It featured great directors, writers and actors in stories that are as vibrant and compelling today as when they were first broadcast. This is our second collection of thirty hours of this great series. In this collection, you'll be entertained by the performances of Orson Welles, Peter Lorre, Agnes Moorehead, Lucille Ball, Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Herbert Marshall, Charles Boyer, Edmund Gwynn, Charles Laughton, Gene Lockhart, Richard Conte, Cornel Wilde, William Conrad, Frank Lovejoy, Donald O'Connor, Brian Donlevy, Hume Cronyn, Roddy McDowell and many others. Will You Make a Bet With Death 11-10-42 The ABC Murders 05-18-43 Five Canaries in the Room 06-08-43 Uncle Henry's Rosebush 06-29-43 The Fountain Plays 08-10-43 The King's Birthday 08-28-43 Philomel Cottage 10-07-43 Statement of Employee Henry Wilson 11-02-43 Portrait Without a Face 03-02-44 The Woman in Red 04-06-44 Of Maestro and Man 07-20-44 Voyage Through Darkness 09-07-44 Dateline: Lisbon 10-05-44 The Brighton Strangler 12-21-44 A Tale of Two Sisters 02-08-45 My Own Murderer 05-24-45 Beyond Good and Evil 10-11-45 A Shroud for Sarah 10-25-45 Murder Off Key 11-15-45 19 Deacon Street 11-22-45 A Week Ago Wednesday 11-29-45 Pink Camellias 12-27-45 The Angel of Death 01-03-46 The Lucky Lady 02-14-46 No More Alice 03-14-46 Out of Control 03-28-46 The Name of the Beast 04-11-46 Too Many Smiths 06-13-46 An Evening's Diversion 07-04-46 The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson 08-15-46 One Way Street 01-23-47 Green Eyed Monster 04-17-47 The Visitor 09-18-47 The X-Ray Camera 10-23-47 Subway 10-30-47 Dream Song 11-06-47 Riabouschinska 11-13-47 Another Man's Poison 05-17-51 The Flame 10-15-51 Carnival 01-28-52 The Phones Die First 05-08-56 The Twelfth Rose 06-05-56 A Sleeping Draught 06-19-56 The Man Who Threw Acid 07-18-56 The Tramp 07-25-56 Double Identity 08-08-56 Holdup 08-29-56 Security Agent 09-05-56 A Case of Identity 09-25-56 The Digger 10-09-56 The Doll 10-23-56 The Long Night 11-18-56 The Man Who Stole the Bible 11-25-56 Rim of Terror 12-02-56 An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge 12-09-56 Eyewitness 12-16-56 A Shipment of Mute Fate 01-06-57 Second Class Passenger 01-20-57 Freedom This Way 01-27-57 Door of Gold 02-10-57 .
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