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Damned lies and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists / / Joel Best
| Damned lies and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists / / Joel Best |
| Autore | Best Joel |
| Edizione | [Updated ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina |
303.3/8
303.38 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social indicators
Social problems - Statistical methods Sociology - Statistical methods |
| Soggetto non controllato |
awareness
bad statistics go to handbook mainstream media manipulation of numbers math student math teacher political activist professor statistical consumption statistical literacy understanding numbers understanding statistics |
| ISBN |
1-283-59446-3
9786613906915 0-520-95351-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE TO THE UPDATED EDITION -- INTRODUCTION. The Worst Social Statistic Ever -- 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL STATISTICS -- 2. SOFT FACTS: Sources of Bad Statistics -- 3. MUTANT STATISTICS: Methods for Mangling Numbers -- 4. APPLES AND ORANGES: Inappropriate Comparisons -- 5. STAT WARS: Conflicts over Social Statistics -- 6. THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL STATISTICS: The Critical Approach -- Afterword. BAD STATISTICS: WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Best Joel
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Damned lies and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists / / Joel Best
| Damned lies and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists / / Joel Best |
| Autore | Best Joel |
| Edizione | [Updated ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
| Disciplina |
303.3/8
303.38 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social indicators
Social problems - Statistical methods Sociology - Statistical methods |
| Soggetto non controllato |
awareness
bad statistics go to handbook mainstream media manipulation of numbers math student math teacher political activist professor statistical consumption statistical literacy understanding numbers understanding statistics |
| ISBN |
1-283-59446-3
9786613906915 0-520-95351-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE TO THE UPDATED EDITION -- INTRODUCTION. The Worst Social Statistic Ever -- 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL STATISTICS -- 2. SOFT FACTS: Sources of Bad Statistics -- 3. MUTANT STATISTICS: Methods for Mangling Numbers -- 4. APPLES AND ORANGES: Inappropriate Comparisons -- 5. STAT WARS: Conflicts over Social Statistics -- 6. THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL STATISTICS: The Critical Approach -- Afterword. BAD STATISTICS: WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811424603321 |
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Best Joel
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| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2012 | ||
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Earning my degree [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of an American university president / / David Pierpont Gardner ; with a foreword by Vartan Gregorian
| Earning my degree [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of an American university president / / David Pierpont Gardner ; with a foreword by Vartan Gregorian |
| Autore | Gardner David Pierpont <1933-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
| Disciplina |
378.1/11
B |
| Soggetto topico | College presidents - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academia
affirmative action aids research aids animal rights apartheid autobiography biography campus protest chancellor college administration college president college colonialism culture wars discrimination education higher education leadership memoir nonfiction prejudice professor public school system race racism social issues south africa student protest uc system university of california university of utah university vietnam war weapons labs |
| ISBN |
0-520-93111-4
1-282-35751-4 9786612357510 1-59875-526-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Fiat Lux -- 1. Youth and Lessons Learned -- 2. The Apprenticeship Years -- 3. Serving the University of Utah -- 4. A Nation at Risk -- 5. Back to the Blue and Gold -- 6. The Workings of the University and the Crucial First Year -- 7. The University on the Move -- 8. Bumps and Barriers Along the Way -- 9. The Public and Diplomatic Life -- 10. Tragedy and Tribulation -- Epilogue. Years of Renewal and Personal Reflections -- Appendix 1. UC's Long-Range Planning Estimates for 1988-2006 by Campus -- Appendix 2. Text of the Regents' Action on the Separation of David P. Gardner as President of the University of California, in Special Session, April 20, 1992 -- Appendix 3. David S. Webster and Tad Skinner's "Rating PhD Programs: What the NRC Report Says . . . and Doesn't Say" on the UC System -- Appendix 4. University History Series, Regional Oral History Office -- Appendix 5. Education, Professional Activities, Honors, and Awards, with Bibliography of David P. Gardner -- Appendix 6. Samples of Articles about or Conversations with David P. Gardner, 1983-1992 / 396 -- Notes -- Credits -- Index |
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Gardner David Pierpont <1933->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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Introduction to Attic Greek [[electronic resource] /] / Donald J. Mastronarde
| Introduction to Attic Greek [[electronic resource] /] / Donald J. Mastronarde |
| Autore | Mastronarde Donald J |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (509 p.) |
| Disciplina | 480 |
| Soggetto topico |
Attic Greek dialect
Greek language - Grammar |
| Soggetto non controllato |
alternating emphasis
ancient greek anthropology appendix aristophanes complex chapters exercises grammar greek english glossary greek language greek studies how to read intro to greek history learn ancient greek linguistics lysias morphology plato principal parts professor student syntax thucydides xenophon |
| ISBN | 0-520-95499-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek -- Unit One. The Alphabet; Pronunciation -- Unit Two. Accentuation -- Unit Three. O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I -- Unit Four. A-Declension Nouns I; The Article -- Unit FIVE. Present Active Indicative of ω-Verbs -- Unit Six. A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II -- Unit Seven. Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication -- Unit Eight. Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses -- Unit Nine. Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives -- Unit Ten. Present of εἰμí; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative -- Unit Eleven. Present Middle/Passive Indicative -- Unit Twelve. Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun αὐτóς; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV -- Unit Thirteen. Contract Verbs in -έω; Demonstratives -- Unit Fourteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns I -- Unit Fifteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun -- Unit Sixteen. Imperfect Indicative -- Unit Seventeen. Indefinite τις; Uses of the Accusative -- Unit Eighteen. Future Active and Middle Indicative -- Unit Nineteen. Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative -- Unit Twenty. Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse -- Unit Twenty-one. Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns -- Unit Twenty-Two. Consonant-Declension Adjectives -- Unit Twenty-Three. Present System of μι-Verbs -- Unit Twenty-Four. Athematic Aorists -- Unit Twenty-Five. Adjectives with Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions -- Unit Twenty-Six. Participles: Formation and Declension -- Unit Twenty-Seven. Uses of the Participle I -- Unit Twenty-Eight. Uses of the Participle II; οἶδα -- Unit Twenty-Nine. Aorist Passive and Future Passive -- Unit Thirty. Contract Verbs in -άω and -όω; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative -- Unit Thirty-One. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs -- Unit Thirty-Two. The Subjunctive -- Unit Thirty-Three. Formation of the Optative -- Unit Thirty-Four. Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse with ὅτι; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative -- Unit Thirty-Five. Conditional Constructions -- Unit Thirty-Six. Indicative with ἄν; Correlatives; More Particles -- Unit Thirty-Seven. Perfect System Active -- Unit Thirty-Eight. Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns -- Unit Thirty-Nine. Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses with Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects -- Unit Forty. O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives in -τός and -τέος; Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes -- Unit Forty-One. Temporal Clauses with ἕως and the Like; πρίν; Attraction -- Unit Forty-Two. Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood -- Appendix A. Table of Contractions -- Appendix B. Principal Parts -- Appendix C. Paradigms |
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Mastronarde Donald J
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 | ||
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Introduction to Attic Greek [[electronic resource] /] / Donald J. Mastronarde
| Introduction to Attic Greek [[electronic resource] /] / Donald J. Mastronarde |
| Autore | Mastronarde Donald J |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (509 p.) |
| Disciplina | 480 |
| Soggetto topico |
Attic Greek dialect
Greek language - Grammar |
| Soggetto non controllato |
alternating emphasis
ancient greek anthropology appendix aristophanes complex chapters exercises grammar greek english glossary greek language greek studies how to read intro to greek history learn ancient greek linguistics lysias morphology plato principal parts professor student syntax thucydides xenophon |
| ISBN | 0-520-95499-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek -- Unit One. The Alphabet; Pronunciation -- Unit Two. Accentuation -- Unit Three. O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I -- Unit Four. A-Declension Nouns I; The Article -- Unit FIVE. Present Active Indicative of ω-Verbs -- Unit Six. A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II -- Unit Seven. Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication -- Unit Eight. Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses -- Unit Nine. Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives -- Unit Ten. Present of εἰμí; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative -- Unit Eleven. Present Middle/Passive Indicative -- Unit Twelve. Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun αὐτóς; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV -- Unit Thirteen. Contract Verbs in -έω; Demonstratives -- Unit Fourteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns I -- Unit Fifteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun -- Unit Sixteen. Imperfect Indicative -- Unit Seventeen. Indefinite τις; Uses of the Accusative -- Unit Eighteen. Future Active and Middle Indicative -- Unit Nineteen. Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative -- Unit Twenty. Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse -- Unit Twenty-one. Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns -- Unit Twenty-Two. Consonant-Declension Adjectives -- Unit Twenty-Three. Present System of μι-Verbs -- Unit Twenty-Four. Athematic Aorists -- Unit Twenty-Five. Adjectives with Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions -- Unit Twenty-Six. Participles: Formation and Declension -- Unit Twenty-Seven. Uses of the Participle I -- Unit Twenty-Eight. Uses of the Participle II; οἶδα -- Unit Twenty-Nine. Aorist Passive and Future Passive -- Unit Thirty. Contract Verbs in -άω and -όω; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative -- Unit Thirty-One. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs -- Unit Thirty-Two. The Subjunctive -- Unit Thirty-Three. Formation of the Optative -- Unit Thirty-Four. Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse with ὅτι; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative -- Unit Thirty-Five. Conditional Constructions -- Unit Thirty-Six. Indicative with ἄν; Correlatives; More Particles -- Unit Thirty-Seven. Perfect System Active -- Unit Thirty-Eight. Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns -- Unit Thirty-Nine. Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses with Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects -- Unit Forty. O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives in -τός and -τέος; Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes -- Unit Forty-One. Temporal Clauses with ἕως and the Like; πρίν; Attraction -- Unit Forty-Two. Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood -- Appendix A. Table of Contractions -- Appendix B. Principal Parts -- Appendix C. Paradigms |
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 | ||
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Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson
| Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson |
| Autore | Stevenson Lisa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.19699/5008997124 |
| Soggetto topico |
Inuit - Medical care - Canada - History
Tuberculosis - Canada - History Inuit - Health and hygiene - Canada - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology canadian history canadian inuit collection of stories ethnographer ethnography historical biography mental health new life professor psychologist reincarnation sociologist somewhere else suicide epidemic tuberculosis epidemic understanding our world |
| ISBN |
0-520-28294-9
0-520-95855-1 |
| Classificazione | SOC002000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Images -- 2. Cooperating -- 3. Anonymous Care -- 4. Life-of-the-Name -- 5. Why Two Clocks? -- 6. Song -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Illustrations -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791004903321 |
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Stevenson Lisa
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson
| Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson |
| Autore | Stevenson Lisa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.19699/5008997124 |
| Soggetto topico |
Inuit - Medical care - Canada - History
Tuberculosis - Canada - History Inuit - Health and hygiene - Canada - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology canadian history canadian inuit collection of stories ethnographer ethnography historical biography mental health new life professor psychologist reincarnation sociologist somewhere else suicide epidemic tuberculosis epidemic understanding our world |
| ISBN |
0-520-28294-9
0-520-95855-1 |
| Classificazione | SOC002000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Images -- 2. Cooperating -- 3. Anonymous Care -- 4. Life-of-the-Name -- 5. Why Two Clocks? -- 6. Song -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Illustrations -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807089603321 |
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Stevenson Lisa
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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The next American revolution [[electronic resource] ] : sustainable activism for the twenty-first century / / Grace Lee Boggs, with Scott Kurashige ; foreword by Danny Glover ; new afterword with Immanuel Wallerstein
| The next American revolution [[electronic resource] ] : sustainable activism for the twenty-first century / / Grace Lee Boggs, with Scott Kurashige ; foreword by Danny Glover ; new afterword with Immanuel Wallerstein |
| Autore | Boggs Grace Lee |
| Edizione | [Updated & expanded ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/4097309051 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | KurashigeScott |
| Soggetto topico |
Social action - United States - History - 21st century
Social movements - United States - History - 21st century Sustainable development - United States - History - 21st century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
activist
anthropologist cheap oil consumer culture consumerism consumption detroit michigan easy credit economist environment environmentalism justice in america manifesto political activism politician professor social awareness social movement social revolution sustainable society |
| ISBN |
1-280-49189-2
9786613587121 0-520-95339-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2012 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. These Are the Times to Grow Our Souls -- 2. Revolution as a New Beginning -- 3. Let's Talk about Malcolm and Martin -- 4. Detroit, Place and Space to Begin Anew -- 5. A Paradigm Shift in Our Concept of Education -- 6. We Are the Leaders We've Been Looking For -- Notes -- Afterword: In Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779285803321 |
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Boggs Grace Lee
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Post-nationalist American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Carlos Rowe
| Post-nationalist American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Carlos Rowe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RoweJohn Carlos |
| Soggetto topico |
Nationalism - Study and teaching - United States
Cultural pluralism - Study and teaching - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
academic america american culture american history american studies college professor essay anthology essay collection globalism historical history professor history teacher migration nationalism nationalist north atlantic post nationalist professor race issues race racism scholarly syllabi syllabus teacher united states history united states us history wartime |
| ISBN |
1-59734-826-0
0-520-92526-2 1-282-75885-3 9786612758850 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies -- Creating the Multicultural Nation -- Rethinking (and Reteaching) the Civil Religion in Post-Nationalist American Studies -- Foreign Affairs -- Making Comparisons -- Race, Nation, Equality -- Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848 -- My Border Stories -- How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783457203321 |
| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
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Thinking globally : a global studies reader / / edited by Mark Juergensmeyer
| Thinking globally : a global studies reader / / edited by Mark Juergensmeyer |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (453 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | JuergensmeyerMark |
| Soggetto topico | Globalization |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology compact chapter economist emerging field environmental crises global economy global studies human rights abuses illegal drug trade nation-state nationalism new communications new media political social activist professor sex trafficking social media sociology student theoretical perspective transnational ideologies xenophobia |
| ISBN | 0-520-95801-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part I. Introduction -- part II. The march of globalization, by region -- part III. Transnational global issues. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790826303321 |
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