Author:
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: frailty, knowledge, puzzles, paradox, reason, labyrinths
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1989-12-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0385242719
ISBN-13: 9780385242714

The author of Big Secrets and Bigger Secrets takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant.

Author: Zygmunt Bauma
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: bonds, human, frailty, love, liquid
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-06-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0745624898
ISBN-13: 9780745624891

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, ’liquid modern’ times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the denizen of our liquid modern society must tie whatever bonds they can to engage with others, using their own wits, skill and dedication. But none of these bonds are guaranteed to last. Moreover, they must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when

Authors:Luc Duchateau, Paul Jansse,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: health, biology, statistics, model, frailty
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2007-12-07
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387728341
ISBN-13: 9780387728346

Clustered survival data are encountered in many scientific disciplines including human and veterinary medicine, biology, epidemiology, public health and demography. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyse clustered survival data. In contrast to the large number of research publications on frailty models, relatively few statistical software packages contain frailty models. It is demanding for statistical practitioners and graduate students to grasp a good knowledge on frailty models from the existing literature. This book provides an in-depth discussion and explanation of the basics o

Author: Laszlo Mero
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: human, frailty, logic, theory, calculations, game, moral
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0387984194
ISBN-13: 9780387984193

Here’s something to do at your next dinner party after the guests have wined and dined, tell them you’re auctioning off a dollar--a plain U.S. one-dollar bill. But set the rules as follows: while the winner gets the dollar, the second-highest bidder must also pay the amount of his last bid, even though he gets nothing. If you can get a single one-cent bid, chances are the auction will go to fifty cents. If someone bids fifty-one cents, bidding will almost certainly reach a dollar. If it goes to one dollar and one cent, the sky’s the limit. No one wants to be the second-highes

Author: Nabi Misdaq
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: studies, middle, eastern, history, routledge, interference, political, frailty, external, afghanistan
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415702054
ISBN-13: 9780415702058

Afghan society is analyzed from a fresh standpoint in this book which discusses the countries two and a half centuries of socio-political disquiet and outside interference. The author explores the continuous struggle between the central government and the cornerstone of the present state, the tribes. In its examination of the interchange between the center and the periphery the book presents a compelling review of Afghan history, the role of Islam and the contemporary theories of state, Islam, nationalism, ethnicity, and tribalism. In addition, the book considers Afghanistan’s dynamism a

Authors:Robert Rubinstein, Janet Kilbride, Sharon Nagy,
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: applications, social, work, modern, choice, living, frailty, perception, elders
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1992-12-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202360849
ISBN-13: 9780202360843

What is it like to be old, have many health problems, and live alone? This book enters the lives of frail elders who live alone and vividly conveys their continuing struggle to maintain their independence. Many look to their homes as the important facilitating element for that independence; the home environment and personal space are often the most significant elements for elders living alone.

Author: Stephanie Barro
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: jane, mystery, austen, frailty, barque
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0553584081
ISBN-13: 9780553584080

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she�and her country�suffer a dastardly demise.�On the heels of completing Sense and Sensibility, Jane heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the Fashionable Great at the height of the Season, Jane is well aware of their secrets and peccadilloes. But even she is surprised when the i