Oxford University Press

Most biologists use nonlinear regression more than any other statistical technique, but there are very few places to learn about curve-fitting. This book, by the author of the very successful     Intuitive Biostatistics, addresses this relavtively focused need of an extraordinarily broad range of scientists....

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The volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the        economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at the United Nations Climate        Change Conference in Copenhagen and beyond....

The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac's mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th century's richest explorations of life and art....

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Blackmore explores the big questions on the nature of brains, minds, and consciousness, through twenty lively and engaging interviews with some of the best-known personalities from the worlds of science and philosophy....