6/26/2023 0 Comments Tim harford the data detectiveIn fact it's as dumb as saying, "It's possible to lie, so you should never believe anything." What Tim Harford does here is show you how not to be lied to. We all know the kind of person who says, "Oh, you can prove anything with statistics," and they suppose that cynicism makes them seem smart. This book could be called: "How Not To Be Fooled" As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly-understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray-statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter.Īs “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us.
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Ghosts comic book raina telgemeierSmile was a runaway success and, as of this writing, has been on The New York Times best-seller list for 221 consecutive weeks. The prevailing belief was that young girls weren’t interested in reading them, women weren’t interested in making them, and they certainly weren’t a medium that could appropriately represent diverse voices. The general consensus was that graphic novels were an exclusive “boys only” club. Aside from a few exceptions, it was not a medium where deep, meaningful, original stories were told…or at least that’s what editors and publishers thought. Really, it’s hard to recall what the publishing industry in general was like.īefore Raina, graphic novels were largely thought to be a highly niche market dominated by superheroes. That’s because the effect she’s had makes it hard to remember what graphic novels were like beforehand. It’s easy to forget that Raina’s first original book, Smile, came out as recently as 2010. This week marks the release of Ghosts, and in it she explores the nature of family and friendship against a backdrop of self-discovery and the Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holiday. Raina Telgemeier is back with her fourth original graphic novel, and we’re all the richer for it. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Captive jex lane read online freeTo be honest, I started reading this book for a few reasons (Vampires, four-plus star rating by 200+people, AND M/M subject matter), but continued reading because Jex Lane made it utterly impossible to not turn to that next page and read that next chapter. With this preface out of the way, here is what I thought about the books: To stop reading after the first volume was completed required more will power than I could muster. I apologize if my reviews blend together, but the flow of the Beautiful Monsters Series was so immensely smooth it felt like I was watching a television series or anime. **Disclaimer: Allow me to start with, I read the first three books in this series within days. Captive Beautiful Monsters Vol 1 Jex Lane 9780997753301 Books Download As PDF : Captive Beautiful Monsters Vol 1 Jex Lane 9780997753301 Books Captive Beautiful Monsters Vol 1 Jex Lane 9780997753301 Books 6/25/2023 0 Comments Color Blind by Colby Marshall" Color Blind is fast paced, suspenseful, and surprising. And Jenna's unique mind, with its strange and subtle perceptions, may be all that can prevent a terrifying reality. Upon interrogation she learns that, behind bars or not, he holds the power to harm more innocents-and is obsessed with gaining power over Jenna herself. Now, the FBI has detained a mass murderer and called for Jenna's help. Years ago, she used it to save her own family from her charming, sociopathic mother. As an FBI forensic psychiatrist, she used it to profile and catch criminals. But she can use these spontaneous mental associations, understand and interpret them enough to help her read people and situations in ways others cannot. They are hard to explain: red can mean anger, or love, or strength. Jenna Ramey's brain, a rare perceptual quirk that punctuates her experiences with flashes of color. SYNESTHESIA: A neurological condition characterized by automatic, involuntary sensory perceptions triggered by seemingly unrelated stimuli. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Ghost Flames by Charles J. HanleyGhost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953, Charles J Hanley (PublicAffairs, August 2020) The details of the story were challenged by West Point professor and military historian Robert Bateman (who served in the 7th Cavalry in the 1990s), who acknowledged that civilians were killed by US forces, but questioned Hanley’s sources, research and objectivity, and his downplaying of the impact of the “fog of war” on that tragedy. Hanley and his team of AP reporters won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for their investigative reporting on the killing of South Korean civilians near No Gun Ri by soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry. While it does include stories of atrocities committed during war by both sides, those stories are weighted heavily against the United States and its South Korean ally. You cannot refine it.” In Ghost Flames, former Associated Press (AP) reporter Charles J Hanley writes about the cruelty of the Korean War-and the impacts it had on some ordinary soldiers, civilians, and even some military commanders. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman remarked during the American Civil War: “War is cruelty. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The ancient nine ian smithThe Delphic Club is known as “the Gas” for its crest of three gas-lit flames, and as Spencer is considered for membership, he’s plunged not only into the secret world of male privilege that the Gas represents, but also into a century-old club mystery. But Spencer is about to be introduced to the most mysterious inner sanctum of the inner sanctum: to his surprise, he’s in the running to be “punched” for one of Harvard’s elite final clubs. The friends he’s made when he hits the storied ivy-clad campus from a very different life in urban Chicago are a happy bonus. Spencer Collins thinks his life at Harvard will be all about basketball and pre-med hard workouts and grinding work in class. Ian Smith’s novel is unmissable." -Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Missing You "Pulls you into the depths of a secret world from the first page. This program includes an introduction read by the author. When a man in uniform asks her to come with him, she believes she's being arrested, and goes along quietly.īrandon, meanwhile, was just an American businessman on a trip to London who sent his men to find him some entertainment for the night. She struggles, he falls on his knife, and she runs out into the streets of London in a panic. However, the job offer turns out to mean a brothel, once he's sampled her charms. She is pressured to take a trip to London with her aunt's brother, who supposedly will help her find employment. The story concerns Heather, an eighteen-year-old British Heartwarming Orphan in 1800 America, who lives in misery with her aunt and uncle in the countryside. The massive success of this work ushered in a wave of historical "bodice rippers" through the 70s, which became the basis for much public opinion about the Romance Novel for years to come, even long after that first wave of tropes had faded away. It was the first such book to be distributed in paperback, and also the first to depict sexual relations between the hero and heroine. Woodiwiss, The Flame And The Flower revolutionised the romance novel genre. The 1972 debut work by author Kathleen E. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Taking Wing by Michael A. MartinThey feel its growing reach will cut them off from what is rightfully theirs. However, the rise of the Coalition strikes dread within the Romulan Star Empire. Banding together with other powers to form a Coalition of Planets, humanity hopes that the strength each can offer the other will allow for peaceful exploration. It was a naïve wish that was battered by interstellar realities, yet man persists in the belief that peace is the way. A united Earth created Starfleet, an interstellar agency whose mission was to explore the cosmos, to come in peace for all mankind. Humanity vowed to put an end to war and to strive for the betterment of every living creature. Each side strove for unconditional victory, and as battle built upon battle, the living began to envy the dead.Ĭhastised by the cataclysm that they had unleashed, the governments of Earth came together. A war that engulfed the great and the small, the rich and the poor, giving no quarter. With nothing left to lose, the Romulan Star Empire engages in all-out war against humanity, determined once and for all to stop the human menace from spreading across the galaxy.Īt the start of the twenty-first century, unconditional war swept across the Earth. Not to say Snarl and Jenniver are also not badass because they are). In that whirlwind we get the treats that are Security Chief Mandela Flynn (and her romance with Sulu, but on her own she is awesome and I love her), several non human security team members (all awesome and I love the thought that went into them. Spock is leaping through time like crazy and meanwhile McCoy (McCoy! Scott meanwhile is extremely confused and hurt and justifiably so) has to command everything and cover Spock ('he's not prostrate with grief, he's sleeping') Holy cats! Things get a little bit Benny Hill once the main, wonderfully written and heartwrenching, tragedy takes place. If this was a conscious decision it was very well played. It's all just a mess and everything and everyone just feels weird. We have Sulu hunting for a transfer (and growing a moustache and longer hair), Scott being incredibly irritable and feeling like he's being shut out. Spock and Kirk are weird with each other - I don't know where in the chronology this novel fits but I'm betting early days since both of them aren't quite as Best Friends Forever-y as they end up being yet - but it's not just them. For a tiny little book it sure packs a heck of wallop! It's a little slow to get going but once it hits its stride (by that I mean the events described in the summary come into play) it is ridiculous and very close to being nail biting.Įverything is weird from the word go. Generation X is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born from 1960 to 1978 -a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings. 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