Introduction to Biostatistics is an accessible and complete introduction for students to the use of statistics in the biological sciences. Designed for sophomore- and junior-level biology, environmental science, biochemistry, and health science students who are taking an introductory statistics course, there are examples throughout the text taken from many areas in the life sciences, including genetics, physiology, ecology, agriculture, and medicine.This new text emphasizes the relationships among probability, probability distributions, and hypothesis testing. The authors have highlighted the expected value of various test statistics under the null and research hypotheses as a way to understand the methodology of hypothesis testing. In addition, they have incorporated nonparametric alternatives to many situations along with the standard parametric analysis.

Introduction to Biostatistics

Science & Math

Mitchell, Kevin

Glover, Thomas

Biological Sciences

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.

An award-winning journalist and boxing aficionado recounts the story of the infamous 1995 bout between Britain's Nigel Benn and American Gerald McClellan that led to a reassessment of the sport as entertainment and of the procedures by which it is regulated.

War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

RANDOM HOUSE UK

An award-winning journalist and boxing aficionado recounts the story of the infamous 1995 bout between Britain's Nigel Benn and American Gerald McClellan that led to a reassessment of the sport as entertainment and of the procedures by which it is regulated.

Yellow Jersey

The gripping tale of boxing's golden age when the mob held as much sway in the ring as the fighters, from award-winning writer, Kevin Mitchell. New York in the Fifties was the most interesting, the most vibrant city in the world. As American culture burst into life -- it gave us television, beatniks, rock 'n roll, Marilyn and Elvis, Cold War paranoia, the Pill -- New York was its epicentre. New York gave the world a couple of other things too: one bloody and brutal but the king of sports, the other simply bloody and brutal. The Fifties were boxing's last real heyday. Never again would the sport be so glamorous or so popular. And that's where New York's other gift to the world -- the Mob -- came in. Gangsters have been around boxing for ever, but 1950s New York was special. Most of the decade's major fights took place in the city, at boxing's spiritual home, Madison Square Garden. Most of the deals that made or ruined the lives of the era's many fine fighters were done on a famous strip of pavement across the road from the Garden: Jacobs Beach. And the man standing on that strip of pavement was a charming Italian murderer called Frankie Carbo. Carbo had lurked in the long shadows of professional boxing since Prohibition, but this was his time. Through his willing associates, the International Boxing Club, he exercised total control over sport's most dubious neighbourhood. Under Carbo, the Mob reached its apogee in the fight game; and under Carbo it would breathe its last ugly gasp. The Mob would be replaced by men dedicated to its traditions, but none would be able to match its power. When the Mob had done it, boxing would never be the same again. Kevin Mitchell's gripping new book is the unsanitised story of those times and that place, of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob's peculiar glamour, brilliantly told through the eyes of the men who were there.

Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden & the Golden Age of Boxing

Biographies

Yellow Jersey Press

The glamorous and violent story of boxing in its heyday, the Fifties. It’s a story of a man called Frankie Carbo, the Mob and Jacobs Beach, where the deals were made, of Rat Pack cool and the eventual fading of the Mob’s power.

Jacob's Beach: The Mob, the Fights, the Fifties

Biographies & Memoirs

Part biography, part catharsis, the story of how a tearaway kid became heavyweight champion of the world, and one of Britain’s best-loved sports stars; his descent into mental illness and his slow and painful journey back to health.

Frank: Fighting Back

Bruno, Frank

Are you a financial leader looking for a practical guide to navigate the complex world of hedge accounting?\nThen Hedge Accounting Unlocked is for you. Written by accounting and treasury expert Kevin Mitchell, this book provides a straightforward methodology for optimising your hedge accounting program, whether dealing with foreign exchange, interest rate, or commodity price risks. 
With useful templates and practical insights, Mitchell takes you on a journey to streamline the accounting process for financial derivatives, protect key financial metrics, and elevate your finance team's effectiveness. You'll discover how to save time, reduce audit fees and month-end stress, and create a more stable earnings profile for your business. 
The book focuses on Kevin's 'HEDGEHOG Method', which outlines eight key areas to ensure compliance with accounting standards and enhance your hedge accounting program. Real-world case studies will empower you to become a more valuable asset to your business, making Hedge Accounting Unlocked a must-have in your CFO toolkit. 
Don't let the complexities of hedge accounting hold you back. Master it with Hedge Accounting Unlocked and elevate your financial leadership.

Hedge Accounting Unlocked: The Essential Guide for CFOs

Business & Money

Finance

Thorpe/Bowker

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think
What makes you the way you are―and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our psychology and behavior throughout our lives, shaping our personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even the way we perceive the world.
We all share a genetic program for making a human brain, and the program for making a brain like yours is specifically encoded in your DNA. But, as Mitchell explains, the way that program plays out is affected by random processes of development that manifest uniquely in each person, even identical twins. The key insight of Innate is that the combination of these developmental and genetic variations creates innate differences in how our brains are wired―differences that impact all aspects of our psychology―and this insight promises to transform the way we see the interplay of nature and nurture.
Innate also explores the genetic and neural underpinnings of disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and epilepsy, and how our understanding of these conditions is being revolutionized. In addition, the book examines the social and ethical implications of these ideas and of new technologies that may soon offer the means to predict or manipulate human traits.
Compelling and original, Innate will change the way you think about why and how we are who we are.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Princeton University Press

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think\nWhat makes you the way you are―and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our psychology and behavior throughout our lives, shaping our personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even the way we perceive the world. Compelling and original, Innate will change the way you think about why and how we are who we are.

An evolutionary case for the existence of free will\nScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.\nTraversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell’s argument has important implications—for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.\nAn astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose, and why it matters.

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

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Introduction to Biostatistics

War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence

War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence

Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden & the Golden Age of Boxing

Jacob's Beach: The Mob, the Fights, the Fifties

Frank: Fighting Back

Hedge Accounting Unlocked: The Essential Guide for CFOs

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will