Book review – Page 18 – William M. Briggs

A Synthetic What? Lady Who Won Lotteries Is Statistician, More

Last big travel day. Off to the blue crammed into motorized sardine cans. I'll begin looking at comments and email tomorrow. Medical Science Advances On Bottoms Turns out that I…

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Earth Has A Fever: How Can We Cool It?

Earth Fever: Living Consciously with Climate Change by Judy McAllister, Erik van Praag, and Jan Paul van Soest With Foreword by Hazel Henderson and Preface, by Jacqueline Cramer, Minister for…

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Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to…

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College Graduates Are Academically Adrift

Repost I meant for this to run two days, but events overtook. Therefore, I'm restoring it to the top for the remainder of the day. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on…

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Posthuman Exopedagogy: Teachers To Use Wolf Boys, UFOs, Monsters To Boost Learning

What I am about to show you was bound to happen. Inna Semetsky has reviewed Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn's new book, Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for…

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The Great Global Warming Blunder by Roy W. Spencer

The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists by Roy W. Spencer This book was given to me for review by the publisher. Clouds…

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Free Books! Statistics, Psychics

In the same spirit of generosity that led M. Anonymous to donate a Kindle, I am offering the books I have written, if we can agree to honor those scrawlings…

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Plagues of the Mind by Bruce S. Thornton

Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge by Bruce S. Thornton This book was provided to me by a generous donation from an anonymous reader. Here's what…

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