George E : 326 books
An Accidental Statistician
The Life and Memories of George E. P. Box
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Celebrating the life of an admired pioneer in statistics
In this captivating and inspiring memoir, world-renowned statistician George E. P. Box offers a firsthand account of his life and statistical work. Writing in an engaging, charming style, Dr. Box reveals the unlikely events that led him...
by George E. Waring Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Elements of Agriculture George E. Waring Jr., american sanitary engineer and civic reformer (1833-1898)
This ebook presents «The Elements of Agriculture», from George E. Waring Jr.. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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What's Wrong with My Kid?
When Drugs or Alcohol Might Be a Problem and What To Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A down-to-earth, judgment-free guide for parents on recognizing the warning signs of alcohol and drug use in their kids, and getting them the help they need to grow and flourish.
A down-to-earth, judgment-free guide for parents on recognizing the warning signs of alcohol and drug use in their...
by George E. Samerjan
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Orphaned fifteen year old Tucker Pierce and his grandparents camp for the night deep in an old growth forest. They camp across the river from a marijuana farm concealed in the woods. The drug dealers decide they must kill the intruders to protect the marijuana farm. Tucker escapes into...
by George E. Samerjan
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Brian McAfee, twenty eight, former staff sergeant in the New York National Guard, a veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq, sits in a lawn chair behind his house drinking Bourbon. He and his wife Barbara argue viciously over his not having “gotten over the war.” Brian knows at that...
by George E. McAvoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Henry McAvoy was employed by Fox Silent Films as Location Manager from 1915 until his death in 1920. Henry had managed a fire works company, which gave him the experience of handling explosives to becoming an electrician. His job included that whenever Fox needed anything (submarines, war ships, naval...
Badger Behaviour, Conservation & Rehabilitation
70 Years of Getting to Know Badgers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A fascinating insight into the badger’s world. Badger biology, life in the sett, rescue & rehabilitation, consultancy, badgers & farming, and badger-watching with George Pearce – an expert on badgers. George has surveyed over 700 sites, visited 1,500 setts, been consulted as an expert in 120 animal...
Revisiting the Memories of Yesterday
Looking Back
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
George E. Saurman looks back at a life filled with adventure, beginning with his birth in Houston in 1926 and through his twilight years at a Pennsylvania retirement community. Within a year of being born, his family moved to Baltimore before finding a permanent home in Pennsylvania, but it wasnt...
I Was Not Asked
An African American Educator from Philadelphia Spreads His Love for Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
In his memoir, DR. GEORGE E. ALLEN looks back at a career spanning more than five decades of teaching music to Philadelphia students. Early on in life, he learned about many styles of music, and he took his love of the art to college, where he earned multiple degrees before joining the Philadelphia...
Native American Legends of the Southeast
Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The study of legends has long been a critical component of cultural anthropological analysis. In Native American Legends of the Southeast, George E. Lankford has compiled and analyzed a collection of unique and rare legends that will continue to appeal to scholars and students of Native American culture and the study of legends in general.
We’Ve Done Them Wrong!
A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
Every Native American
Must leave his home. l.
Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed savage.
Savage was how the New World invaders described American...
Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
(American Men of Letters)
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Upon publication, George E. Woodberry’s Edgar Allan Poe became recognized as the standard study of Poe. Both a biography and a work of criticism, Woodberry did not refrain from discussing Poe’s faults as well as his triumphs. Engaging and authoritative, the book presents the life and work of the...
by George E. Woodberry
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George E. Woodberry, is one in a series of American Men of Letters. Of its kind it is good. Based on original researches and written by a scholar, it is neither too entirely statistical nor too obstrusively literary for the popular masses. Mr. Woodberry has not tried so much...
Horace Walpole's Letters
Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical...