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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  
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2012
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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
Best Joel  
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783314003321
Gardner David Pierpont <1933->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
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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 <1933-2024.>
Edizione [1st ed.]
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910807868803321
Gardner David Pierpont <1933-2024.>  
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910785707603321
Mastronarde Donald J  
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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Mastronarde Donald J  
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
Stevenson Lisa  
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
Stevenson Lisa  
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
Boggs Grace Lee  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
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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-9910815161403321
Boggs Grace Lee  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
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