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  • Probability and Statistics for Computer Scientists

    by Michael Baron ...
    Praise for the Second Edition:"The author has done his homework on the statistical tools needed for the particular challenges computer scientists encounter... [He] has taken great care to select examples that are interesting and practical for computer scientists. ... The content is illustrated with numerous figures, and concludes with appendices and an index. The book is erudite and … could work ... Read more

    $165.99 USD

  • The Mourning Sexton

    A Novel of Suspense

    by Michael Baron ...
    In this deft, multilayered thriller, a disgraced lawyer trying to revive his tattered career stumbles across a hidden case of cold-blooded murder and discovers that he must pursue justice even though doing so might just cost him what little he has left—possibly even his life.Attorney David Hirsch was the managing partner of one of St. Louis’s most prestigious law firms, until he was convicted of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Language and Relationship in Wordsworth's Writing

    by Michael Baron ...
    Series series Studies In Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature Series
    William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally. This broad-ranging survey redefines the variety of his writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Our First Revolution

    The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

    by Michael Barone ...
    The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history: the late-seventeenth-century uprising known as the Glorious Revolution.In this work of popular history,Michael Barone brings the story of this unlikely and largely bloodless revolt to American readers and reveals that, without the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Shaping Our Nation

    How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics

    by Michael Barone ...
    It is often said that America has become culturally diverse only in the past quarter century. But from the country’s beginning, cultural variety and conflict have been a centrifugal force in American politics and a crucial reason for our rise to power.The peopling of the United States is one of the most important stories of the last five hundred years, and in Shaping our Nation, bestselling author ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mental Maps of the Founders

    by Michael Barone ...
    ‘Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.'Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyThe Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition—but they were not all of one mind. They came from particular places in already diverse colonies, and they all sought their futures in different horizons. Without ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Our Country

    The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan

    by Michael Barone ...
    Narrated by William Lavelle ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 55 min

    In this rare, sweeping history, Michael Barone draws from deep within the political and social record of modern America to tell the story of how the country of our parents and of our grandparents became the prosperous and powerful nation we know today.Barone points out that the single most significant issue to dominate American politics in this century is that of who really is an American. Gone ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Hard America, Soft America

    Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future

    by Michael Barone ...
    A peculiar feature of our country today, says Michael Barone, is that we seem to produce incompetent eighteen-year-olds but remarkably competent thirty-year-olds. Indeed, American students lag behind their peers in other nations, but America remains on the leading edge economically, scientifically, technologically, and militarily.The reason for this paradox, explains Barone in this brilliant essay ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • American Exceptionalism

    The Origins, History, and Future of the Nation's Greatest Strength

    by James W. Ceaser, Hugh Heclo, Hadley Arkes, Daniel L. Dreisbach, T. David Gordon, William Kristol, George H. Nash, Marvin J. Folkertsma, Michael Barone, Steven F. Hayward ...
    American Exceptionalism provokes intense debates culturally, economically, politically, and socially. This collection, edited by Charles W. Dunn of Regent University's Robertson School of Government, brings together analysis of the idea's origins, history and future.Contributors include:Hadley Arkes, Michael Barone, James W. Ceasar, Charles W. Dunn, Daniel L. Dreisbach, T. David Gordon, Steven F. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mid and Later Life

    by Pamela A. Smith, Amy Maida Wadsworth, William McMahon, Kristina Cottle, Megan Farley, Hilary Coon, Christopher Gregg, Amanda Bakian, Temple Grandin, Judy Endow, Michael Baron, Saskia Baron, Digby Tantam, Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska, Mick Coppock, Hilde Geurts, R.C. Oude Voshaar, Sylvia Heijnen, Bruce Parsons, Dermot Bowler, Amanda Roestorf, Monique Hines, Susan Balandin, Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom, Shana Nichols, E. Sandra Byers, Denise D. Resnik, A.J. Paron-Wildes, Jeremy Parr, Gregory Prince, JaLynn Prince, Valerie D'Astous, Karen Glaser, Karen Lowton, Terry Brugha, Carol Povey, Cos Michael, Robert MacBean, Stella Macdonald, Peter Gerhardt, Valerie Paradiz, Xenia Grant, Elizabeth A. Perkins, Angela Rodriguez, Bas van van Alphen, Dr Valerie Gaus, Lauren Bishop Bishop Fitzpatrick ...
    Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.Including a range of personal, academic and clinical perspectives, the book considers historical and contemporary perspectives on autism, including ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The New Americans

    How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

    by Michael Barone ...
    Many Americans feel swamped by immigrants with alien cultures, languages, and customs apparently flooding into our country. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How America’s Political Parties Change (and How They Don’t)

    by Michael Barone ...
    The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Party—or prophecies of a new dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two great parties has a setback, we’ve heard: “This is the end of the Democratic Party,” or, “The Republican Party is going out of existence.” Yet both survive, and thrive.We have the oldest and third ... Read more

    $17.99 USD