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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume of the Archaeology and Language trilogy examines how archaeological data can be interpreted through linguistic hypotheses. The collection demonstrates the possibility that, where archaeological sequences are reasonably well-known, evidence of language diversification may be extrapolated to draw an absolute chronology. ... Read more

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How do people search evidence for a hypothesis? A well documented answer in cognitive psychology is that they search for confirming evidence. However, the rational strategy is to try to falsify the hypothesis. This book critically evaluates this contradiction. Experimental research is discussed against the background of philosophical and formal theories of hypothesis testing with striking results: Falsificationism and verificationism - the two main rival philosophies of testing - come down to one and the same principle for concrete testing behavior, eluding the contrast between rational falsification and confirmation bias. ... Read more

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The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis with the Axioms of Set Theory by Kurt GödelKurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a logician, mathematician and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the most significant logicians of all time, who's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.Gödel is best known for his three theorems, which set forth and explain the foundations of mathematics.This book provides the proof for the third of his three theorems.Included is a new foreword by Richard Laver, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who explains in simple, non-technical terms the basic, underlying ideas behind Gödel's theorems and proofs and why they are relevant and important. ... Read more

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Puzzled about stuttering? If so, here is a book, written in clear, every-day language, that fits together the pieces of the stuttering puzzle as never before. The key to its approach is the Valsalva Hypothesis. This exciting new theory proposes that stuttering blocks may result from a neurological confusion between the voice and the Valsalva mechanism (which normally assists us in exerting effort and forcing things out of the body). The book demonstrates how physical and psychological factors may interact to stimulate and perpetuate stuttering through a "Valsalva-Stuttering Cycle."

The book sheds new light on virtually every aspect of stuttering behavior - its causes, its paradoxes (e.g., why it's worse in some instances but not others), and its many forms of treatment. Finally, it suggests an experimental self-therapy program, called Valsalva Control, aimed at controlling the Valsalva mechanism, breaking the stuttering cycle, and freeing the stutterer's inherent fluency. ... Read more

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Indebted to Mr. Parry for his hard work
This book describes the way I stutter more than any thing else I have read. Mr. Parry has posted videos on youtube and was even available to phone conference with me free of charge. A trial lawyer, he has spent his life trying to crack the puzzles and paradoxes of stuttering, and anyone who uses this book to help them gain a grip on their problem can easily see the effort he put into writing it. I hope I can give back a fraction of what he has to people should I ever master my fluency. The practice routines are very helpful and if you are persistent with them and change your mental approaches to speech, you will begin to notice changes after only a few months. Highest recommendation I could give. Thanks Mr. Parry.

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Warning - looks like bogus reviews
All these 5-Star reviews made me suspicious, so I took the trouble to do some digging. On the first two pages, most of the reviews are from single-review commenters. Needless to say, this looks shady. On top of that, the reviewers are a veritable United Nations - Africa, South America Asia, Britain, USA on two pages. Also note that only one reviewer bothers to mentionthe "secret" of the book - the butthole hypothesis! C'mon now!

Unlocking the mystery of stuttering
This book is a must read for people who are stuttering. The author Bill Parry explains the physical components of stuttering as well as the psychological aspect in a easy straight forward manner. Mr. Parry unlocks the great mystery of why people who stutter tend to be caught up in struggle with their speech and offers easy to follow self-help strategies to take control of your valsalva maneuver. This is the most interesting book regarding stuttering I have ever read and I recommend it to everyone.

Disappointing
Of course, the book is titled Understanding and Controlling Stuttering. The first half of the book, the "understanding" part of it, is fantastic, and goes into deep detail.

The second half, which is supposed to reveal a "comprehensive new approach" can be summarized in one sentence: relax your butt hole. I am not making this up!! The author is convinced that relaxing your anus will also relax the same part of your body that is keeping you from breathing and making you stutter.

I don't think I have to tell you that his suggestion is bogus, although his reasoning is somewhat sound. As another reviewer implied , the author molds the entire book around his hypothesis, as if begging you to believe him.

This book is pretty good for the "understanding" aspect, but the "controlling" aspect, read Self Therapy for the Stutterer instead, which has tried-and-true methods of control. For those of you thinking of buying this book to find the miracle to cure your stuttering, this isn't it.

Wow!
Believe it or not, this book really helped my trombone playing even though I don't stutter! The Valsalva Maneuvre is quite common among brass playersand this book is the most profound source I found so far. ... Read more

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A treatment of estimating unknown parameters, testing hypotheses and estimating confidence intervals in linear models. Readers will find here presentations of the Gauss-Markoff model, the analysis of variance, the multivariate model, the model with unknown variance and covariance components and the regression model as well as the mixed model for estimating random parameters. A chapter on the robust estimation of parameters and several examples have been added to this second edition. The necessary theorems of vector and matrix algebra and the probability distributions of test statistics are derived so as to make this book self-contained. Geodesy students as well as those in the natural sciences and engineering will find the emphasis on the geodetic application of statistical models extremely useful. ... Read more

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1912. This is the book that inspired H. Spencer Lewis, the founder of the modern day Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, to begin his early studies into mysticism. Dr. Lewis treasured this book because it convinced him of a vast world to explore within himself. It was the first book dealing with mysticism and the psychic side of life that he ever read.Contents: Duality and suggestion; Reasoning powers of the two minds differentiated; Perfect memory of the subjective mind; Subjective memory; Perception of the fixed laws of nature; Effects of adverse suggestion; Hypnotism and mesmerism; Hypnotism and crime; Psycho-therapeutics; A new system of mental therapeutics; Phenomena of spiritism; Physical phenomena of spiritism; Phantasms of the dead; Suspended animation and premature burial; Practical conclusions and suggestions; Physical manifestations and philosophy of Christ; Spiritual philosophy of Christ; Mission of Christ; Deductions from various attributes of the soul. ... Read more

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Very Informative
This is a wonderful, well explained introduction to mysticism and psychism. Hudson delves deeply into the conscious and subconscious mind explaining their purpose. A very interesting read! ... Read more

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This revised book provides a thorough explanation of the foundation of robust methods, incorporating the latest updates on R and S-Plus, robust ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) and regression. It guides advanced students and other professionals through the basic strategies used for developing practical solutions to problems, and provides a brief background on the foundations of modern methods, placing the new methods in historical context. Author Rand Wilcox includes chapter exercises and many real-world examples that illustrate how various methods perform in different situations.

Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing, Second Edition, focuses on the practical applications of modern, robust methods which can greatly enhance our chances of detecting true differences among groups and true associations among variables.

* Covers latest developments in robust regression
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* Includes newest rank-based methods
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Great book for applied researchers
If you want a useful book on modern ANOVA and regression methods, this is an excellent choice. The book begins with some technical background on robust techniques and then focuses on how commonly encountered problems can be addressed. Included are two-way and three-way designs, split-plot designs, a variety of robust regression methods plus some recently developed exploratory tools. The book also contains a description of s-plus functions that can be used to implement the methods covered. The s-plus functions used can be downloaded for free. S-plus is easy to use and learn and I make use of these functions on a regular basis. If you are more interested in theory than applied work, other books, such as Staudte and Sheather, or Huber, or Hampel et al. will be more interesting. But for applied work, this is the only book I've read that covers many experimental designs that are typically encountered in practice. Even some modern advances related to least squares are covered and can make a substantial difference in accuracy as well as the conclusions reached.

Not an S-PLUS user? Go elsewhere-
Dr. Wilcox apparently works copiously but unaccompanied (36 of the book's technical references attribute sole authorship to him).With all due respect to the author, lack of collaboration can be detrimental to what was intended to be a basic technical treatise - and this may be one of those occasions.The author notes (p. 11) "We stress, however, that many mathematical details arise that are not discussed here.The goal is to provide an indication of how technical issues are addressed without worrying about the many relevant details."Indeed, the reader may find this concentration of effort a bit contrary with the introductory nature implied by the book's title.This impression is reinforced by a subject index perhaps too terse for an introductory or reference textbook (being only 3 pages of regularly-sized font, while a less-useful "author index" takes up almost 4 pages).

For the most part, this lean 296 page book is not so much an "Introduction to Robust Estimation" as it is a tutorial or user's manual for numerous S-PLUS functions relevant to the subject matter.If the reader is not heavily invested in S-PLUS (S-PLUS being a high-level computer language and interactive analysis environment trademarked by MathSoft, Inc.), he can never fully appreciate the contents of this title.For example, in the discussion of median variance (p. 42), the author notes that this estimator is related to the beta distribution, but does not acknowledge that there are several related functions that can take this name (such as the incomplete beta distribution, as well as its ratio).Instead, an S-PLUS function 'pbeta' defines what was meant.One must therefore resort to cited third-party references or a computer to really grasp the basics in these situations (in this case only to discover the terminology was inaccurate).A fundamental reliance on propriety software packages and professional journal articles for basic instruction and accuracy is a characteristic unbecoming of an "introductory" textbook, in my opinion.

Often, software manuals tied to specific libraries or languages become dated.I liked the fact that the companion software was downloadable, rather than provided on a medium that might be incompatible with the user's operating system, such as a 5 1/4" disk (the link in the textbook has been updated to www.apnet.com/updates/ireht.htm).For an S-PLUS owner already familiar with robust statistics, this book would probably rate higher.However, of the four textbooks I currently own on this subject, I regret to say that this title only sees infrequent use.A better alternative for emphasizing basic concepts and theory is "Robust Estimation and Testing" by Staudte & Sheather (ISBN 0471855472). ... Read more

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Race and those other socially divisive creations, concepts, tropes, ideologies, and behaviors that have enabled human beings to dominate Earth and other species are now obsolete because of weapons, technology, and internationalism. The "big brained" animal must transform and transcend his or her culture with the Ecological Revolution or become extinct. The production and reproduction of social inferiority is maladaptive in a global village. Status superiority and inferiority threaten the human race. Human beings can no longer deny, defy, and defile their animal kinship in their own endless search for security. If human beings fail to change, they may leave the Earth to other social animals who have evolved better paradigms of social cooperation and ecological fitness. ... Read more

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In "Past Conditional", Guido Morselli rewrites the Great War and its aftermath, undermining historical objectivity and highlighting the absurdity of real events. He also wrote seven other novels which were all published after his suicide in 1973. ... Read more

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"history is made with ifs"
An old saying states that you can't rewrite history. But what afascinating practice it is, when is done with such skill like Morselli's. It's an absolutely enthralling experience I think for everyone to discover, in a novel with a very factual and convincing flavour, that if the wicked guys (Germany and Austria) had won the war, there wouldn't have been no nazis, no fascism, no shoa and so on. But the plot is thrilling too, the way the Empires managed to win with a sort of blitzkrieg tactic; it's moving, seeing the inevitable fall of the nevertheless winnign asutrian empire thru' the eyes of an official who secretely deserves all the merit for the victory. The only flaw is a long intermezzo in which the author imagines to argue with the publisher about history, novel and narratology. Quite boring. But maybe it would deserve a second reading. I think the American reader,used to excellent historical novels, would enjoy this book.

Italian Top-quality Counterfactual Fiction
Past Conditional : A Retrospective Hypothesis is one of the best books written by one of the best Italian novelists of this century.It is a counterfactual story, which explains how Germans and Austro-Hungarians could have won World War I.The plot is simply breathtaking, and gives the reader an idea of the complexity of the war on the Italian Front;it is fully detailed, and presents you with aspects, facts, scenarios that can be surprising for a non-Italian reader.The historical facts are skilfully mixed with counter-historical fiction, creating a well-crafted plot where the latter help you to see the former in a completely new perspective.Well-written, and thoroughly enjoyable, even for those readers who have only a foggy notion of what W.W.I was like.This book proves that alternate history fiction is not a monopoly of US authors. ... Read more

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Highly valuable perspectives
Bellinzoni did a masterful job of bringing in multiple perspectives to alternatively support or debunk Marcan Priority and the existence of Q. The essays are of somewhat uneven quality, but most are very well done. I particularly found helpful that there were articles from scholars supporting various alternatives to the currently dominant Two-Source Hypothesis. And it was good that the concluding essay, recognized the difficulties of coming to a definite answer, which stands in contrast to the many scholars who simply assume this is a closed question. This is a great book for people who are familiar with the basics of the Synoptic Problem, but want to go deeper into one of the more fascinating problems of modern biblical scholarship. ... Read more