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  • Uncertainty

    The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

    de William Briggs ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents a philosophical approach to probability and probabilistic thinking, considering the underpinnings of probabilistic reasoning and modeling, which effectively underlie everything in data science. The ultimate goal is to call into question many standard tenets and lay the philosophical and probabilistic groundwork and infrastructure for statistical modeling. It is the first book ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • A Cauldron of Anxiety

    Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

    de William Briggs ...
    The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastrophes of global conflict and of climate change, have a common cause. The inability of capitalism or the state to respond to existential crises and internal contradictions is the cause of what William Briggs terms A Cauldron of Anxiety. Briggs defends a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Kings, Queens, Sailors, Spies!

    How Francis Drake's Secret Mission Claimed California and Fooled the Mapmakers for 200 Years

    de William Briggs ...
    Famed English privateer Francis Drake navigates the Pacific Northwest on a clandestine search for the fabled Northwest Passage, aided by Portuguese sea secret pilot Nuñez da Moreira. Left on the rugged California coast and sent on a perilous secret mission, Moreira survives only to face the dreaded Spanish Inquisition and, under torture, reveals secrets of Drake's voyage and that California is an ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade

    When Survival is All That Matters

    de William Briggs ...
    As the sun rises on China and sets on America, the world holds its breath. China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade looks at the rise of China and the decline of the USA but from a different angle. William Briggs argues that this struggle for economic supremacy is being played out against a much bigger backdrop; the decline of the economic structure of capitalism. In this sense, the decline of ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Removing the Stalin Stain

    Marxism and the Working Class in the 21st Century

    de William Briggs ...
    'Briggs tackles head-on the zone of conflict that Marx never quite got to, though not for lack of ambition. How do nation-states both manage and contest the military-industrial surges of global capitalism? Arguing the novel thesis that Stalin did good work for capitalism, offering its defenders an open goal to score against Marxism, Removing the Stalin Stain presents a clearly argued and outward ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • A Communist's Journey

    To Moscow and Beyond

    de William Briggs ...
    Capitalism is destroying the world and crushing humanity. We need a better one.This book, although a memoir is not simply a chronology of a life but a personalised history of a movement. It isnot the drawing of a line under a life, but the turning of a page. Briggs weaves the personal with the political. It is a communist's journey; a political journey that led him to Moscow and beyond. It traces ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • How America Got Its Guns

    A History of the Gun Violence Crisis

    de William Briggs ...
    In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author’s thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis

    The Past is Prologue

    de William Briggs ...
    Will capitalism survive forever?Capitalism has always lived in and with crisis. Wars, revolutions, economic depression and repeated recessions, the threat of nuclear annihilation and ecological disaster have all failed to break the dominance of this economic and political system.Challenging the predominance of capitalism in a world fraught with inequalities, this book returns to classical Marxism ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Designs and Patterns for Embroiderers and Craftspeople

    de William Briggs & Co. ...
    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    Have you ever wanted to create your own embroidery and crewel designs but given up the idea just because you can't draw? Here is a book containing over 500 patterns and designs from the finest Victorian source. Just transfer the designs to cloth, select a color scheme, use your favorite stitches, and soon your very own personal "noodle painting" will begin to form.These designs are classified ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Delbert Briggs

    de Dennis H. Williams ...
    Delbert Briggs wanted a ranch in the worst way, so much so, he entered into a purchase agreement on a 'ungatherable' ranch loaded with spoiled cattle.The sellers didn't take into account his ability, or work ethic.Along the way, he becomes involved with a former bank employee.Follow along to see how he deals with loan sharks and bad cattle. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Everything You Believe Is Wrong

    de William M Briggs ...
    If you are an Expert, professional, bureaucrat, teacher, professor, Democrat or Republican, liberal, progressive or conservative, consider yourself in any way in the educated classes, the odds are high that everything you believe is wrong.Not everything. Not simple things. Only the most important things. If you are in the majority, then a great deal of what you hold true about the world and of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Collaboration

    Using Networks and Partnerships

    de Mark A. Abramson, Robert Agranoff, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Samuel M. DeMarie, Elaine C. Kamarck, Robert Klitgaard, John W. Scanlon, William M. Snyder, Gregory F. Treverton, William L. Waugh Jr. ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration-within agencies; among agencies; among levels of governments; and ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD