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  • Beyond the Game

    The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith

    by Gary Smith ...
    Fifteen compelling stories from the acclaimed Sports Illustrated correspondent who's been hailed as one of America's finest sportswriters.Gary Smith's sportswriting stands among the best journalism being written today. His award-winning stories shatter the confines of traditional sports reportage, getting beneath the wins and losses and penetrating into the hearts of the athletes themselves into ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What the Luck?

    The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives

    by Gary Smith ...
    "[A] delightful addition to the stuff-you-think-you-know-that's-wrong genre, á la Freakonomics, Outliers, and The Black Swan." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. Evidence shows that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Lost In Spain

    Misadventures in a Mediterranean Country

    by Gary Smith ...
    Accounts of everyday Spanish life and very recent history with a touch of humour, seen through the eyes of a British writer after 20 years living in the country.Feel the culture shock as a Northern European comes to grips with Spanish queues, driving, red tape, Spanish fiestas and siestas, regional nationalisms and much more. Views on modern Spain in the grip of economic recession, shared by ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • 1 Chronicles

    by Gary V. Smith ...
    Series series The Pillar Old Testament Commentary (POTC)
    The Chronicler's question for every generation: How will you be remembered?What kind of legacy will you leave? When those who come after you remember your life, what will they say? These questions lie at the heart of 1 Chronicles, and Gary V. Smith brings them into sharp focus in this addition to the Pillar Old Testament Commentary series.Smith opens with a clear orientation to the book's ... Read more

    $72.98 CAD

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  • Distrust

    Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science

    by Gary Smith ...
    There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging conspiracy theories are rife because of the internet that science created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and statistical ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ice War Diplomat

    Hockey Meets Cold War Politics at the 1972 Summit Series

    by Gary J. Smith ...
    Discover a diplomacy mission like no other in Ice War Diplomat, the behind-the-scenes story of the historic 1972 Summit Series. Amid the tension of the Cold War, caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and the Soviet Union, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a dangerous path.On his first overseas assignment, Smith is ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Master Chief

    Diary of a Navy Seal

    by Gary R. Smith ...
    The memoir of a man who spent most of his career facing death.For UDT/SEAL team member Gary R. Smith, just being part of an elite military organization wasn’t enough—he had to be in the thick of the action. Because in bloody, violent Vietnam he learned there’s no stronger bond than the one forged in the gut-wrenching chaos of combat. During ambushes, PRU combat patrols, and extractions from hot ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Strength for the Fight

    The Life and Faith of Jackie Robinson

    by Gary Scott Smith ...
    Series series Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
    How faith sustained Jackie Robinson—both as an athlete and as an activist.The integration of Major League Baseball in 1947 was a triumph. But it was also a fight. As the first Black major leaguer since the 1880s, Jackie Robinson knew he was not going to be welcomed into America's pastime with open arms. Anticipating hostility, he promised Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey that he ... Read more

    $37.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics

    by Gary Smith ...
    Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics, Third Edition will helps students in introductory statistics courses develop statistical reasoning and critical thinking skills. The book demonstrates the power, elegance, and beauty of statistical reasoning, providing hundreds of new and updated examples and discussing the uses and potential abuses of statistics. Examples are drawn from real, ... Read more

    $111.19 CAD

  • Exercises and Solutions in Finance

    by Gary Smith ...
    This book contains hundreds of engaging, class-tested finance exercises (and detailed solutions) that test student understanding of the material. Many are educational in their own right—for example, delaying social security benefits does not give a safe 8% real return; the correlation between bond and stock returns is not stable, and most measures of company performance regress toward the mean. ... Read more

    Was $76.94 CAD Now $68.70 CAD

  • Exercises and Solutions in Probability and Statistics

    by Gary Smith ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
    The book contains hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises (and detailed solutions) that test students’ understanding of the material. Many are educational in their own right—for example, baseball managers who played professional ball were often catchers; stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average have generally done better than the stocks that replaced them; ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • And So It Goes

    by Gary Smith ...
    Series Book 10 - Warren Steelgrave
    Jenny Stone, a prosecuting attorney, finds herself in a precarious situation after concluding a major money laundering case. She notices she is being followed and decides to take a vacation to Italy to visit Warren Steelgrave, a distant relative by marriage. Upon her arrival, she confides in Warren about her fears and the thumb drive containing sensitive information given to her by a suspect, ... Read more

    $11.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus