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中文参考译名:白化：迷失在阿斯彭
Author: Ted Conover
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: aspen, lost, whiteout
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-09-11
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 067974178X
ISBN-13: 9780679741787
Irreverent, poignant, and revealing, this meditation on the sweet temptation of wealth and the vainglorious quest for paradise as they exist in Aspen, Colorado, features a "cast of characters (that) includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim" (The New Republic).
Author: W. J. Conover
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: statistics, probability, series, wiley, practical, nonparametric
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 1999-12-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0471160687
ISBN-13: 9780471160687
This highly-regarded text serves as a quick reference book which offers clear, concise instructions on how and when to use the most popular nonparametric procedures. This edition features some procedures that have withstood the test of time and are now used by many practitioners, such as the Fisher Exact Test for two-by-two contingency tables, the Mantel-Haenszel Test for combining several contingency tables, the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the survival curve, the Jonckheere-Terpstra Test and the Page Test for ordered alternatives, and a discussion of the bootstrap method.
中文参考译名:Newjack：护辛辛
Author: Ted Conover
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: sing, guarding, newjack
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-06-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375726624
ISBN-13: 9780375726620
Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.When Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now the state’s most troubled maximum-security facility. The result of his year there is this remarkable look at one of America’s most dangerous prisons, where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and where the line between violator an
Author: Ted Conover
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: way, live, world, changing, man, roads, routes
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-02-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1400042445
ISBN-13: 9781400042449
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them.With his marvelous eye for detail and his contagious enthusiasm, Ted Conover explores six of these key byways worldwide. In Peru, he traces the journey of a load of rare
Author: Ted Conover
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: america, hoboes, rails, riding, nowhere, rolling
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-09-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375727868
ISBN-13: 9780375727863
In Ted Conover’s first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious.Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, reso
中文参考译名:钟表修理：基本知识
Author: Steven G. Conover
Publisher: Clockmakers Newsletter
Keywords: basics, repair, clock
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 096247665X
ISBN-13: 9780962476655
