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  • Justin Trudeau

    Power, Promise, and the Fight for Canada

    by David Olive ...
    A candid dive into the life and political successes and setbacks of Justin TrudeauWhat is the legacy of Justin Trudeau, the most progressive social reformer among Canada’s prime ministers and world leaders of his time? The blunders of Trudeau and his government are weighed here alongside his lasting achievements, including lifting hundreds of thousands of children from poverty with his Canada ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • More Political Babble

    The Dumbest Things Politicians Ever Said

    by David Olive ...
    "I was dramatically shaped by my grandmother and my aunts because they convinced me there was always a cookie available. Deep down inside I'm four years old, and I wake up and think out there, there's a cookie. Every morning I'm going, you know, either it can be baked or it's already been bought, but it's in a jar . . . somewhere. . . ." — Newt Gingrich in 1994,from his Renewing American ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Linear Regression

    by David J. Olive ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This text covers both multiple linear regression and some experimental design models. The text uses the response plot to visualize the model and to detect outliers, does not assume that the error distribution has a known parametric distribution, develops prediction intervals that work when the error distribution is unknown, suggests bootstrap hypothesis tests that may be useful for inference after ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The World In Our Words

    by Stephanie Rowe, Terrica Strudwick, FIANNA MELODY MCDONALD, DAVID OLIVER, SHERR MARIE ALTAMIRANO DIAZ, KYLA JAY, JANE RICHARDS, JONA ESELAYE DAVID, G. WIGGINS, LUCY ALEXANDRA HOWSON, LUCY NOVARO, NATHANIEL NEW-CASTLE, NIAMH FRIEL, RANDY LACEY, A.J. HAIGH, AZARIA CAMARGO, JACQUELINE LEWIS, MARION S. LOVELAND, RHETORICAL ARTZ, RONI ADAM, SKYE PRICE, TK CASSIDY, YANE KRITSKI DE OLIVEIRA ...
    A unique collaboration project bringing together poets from across the globe. The project, driven by newly published Author Stephanie Rowe, began with a desire to share more of her own work. Fusing her love of community and poetry the idea quickly grew and a call for poetry submissions on social media yielded an overwhelming response.Twenty-two poet's were chosen from around the world, including ... Read more

    $16.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robust Multivariate Analysis

    by David J. Olive ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This text presents methods that are robust to the assumption of a multivariate normal distribution or methods that are robust to certain types of outliers. Instead of using exact theory based on the multivariate normal distribution, the simpler and more applicable large sample theory is given. The text develops among the first practical robust regression and robust multivariate location and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Statistical Theory and Inference

    by David J. Olive ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This text is for a one semester graduate course in statistical theory and covers minimal and complete sufficient statistics, maximum likelihood estimators, method of moments, bias and mean square error, uniform minimum variance estimators and the Cramer-Rao lower bound, an introduction to large sample theory, likelihood ratio tests and uniformly most powerful tests and the Neyman Pearson Lemma. A ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Pauline Letters

    A Rhetorical Analysis

    by David Oliver Smith ...
    In The Pauline Letters: A Rhetorical Analysis, David Oliver Smith unveils his revolutionary discovery that the apostle Paul divided his letters into structured literary units as he wrote them. These literary units are based upon repeated words, phrases, and abstract concepts and are invariably patterned into chiastic, parallel, or hybrid structures. Using his technique of rhetorical analysis, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions

    by Oliver Onions, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character studies graced with a powerful poetic elegance. In simple terms ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CANADA INSIDE OUT

    by David Olive ...
    Why are we so hard on ourselves when everyone else thinks we're wonderful? Walt Whitman, Marlene Dietrich and Bill Clinton all have had admiring things to say about Canada. At the same time, some of our patriots--including Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood and Pierre Trudeau--are harsh critics.David Olive has collected a witty and whimsical book of 600 quotations that show how critical Canadians are- ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • American Story, An

    by David Olive ...
    Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured America's attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Now, as presumptive Democratic candidate for President, Obama's superb and captivating oratory style has earned him comparisons to John F. Kennedy and even Martin Luther King - and on the campaign trail Obama has achieved near rock-star status. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Cups of Tea

    One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

    by David Oliver Relin, Greg Mortenson ...
    The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Palliative Care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    From Diagnosis to Bereavement

    Edited by David Oliver, Gian Domenico Borasio, Wendy Johnston ...
    Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or motor neurone disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that can cause profound suffering for both the patient and their family. Whilst new treatments for ALS are being developed, these are not curative and offer only the potential to slow its progression. Palliative care must therefore be integral to the clinical approach to the disease. Palliative ... Read more

    $104.39 USD