Author: Joseph Adler
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: hacks, baseball
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0596009429
ISBN-13: 9780596009427

"Baseball Hacks" isn’t your typical baseball book--it’s a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It’s an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It’s a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it’s a how-to book--one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership de

Author: Joseph A. Adler
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: traditions, religious, chinese
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-03-16
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0130911631
ISBN-13: 9780130911636

This book provides an introduction to the history of religion in China and its contours in China and Taiwan today, focusing on four religious traditions: Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and popular religion. It covers not only religious and ethical ideas but also the practices of each tradition. Readers will become familiar with common themes that weave themselves through the history of Chinese religion to the present day—such as ancestor worship, sacrifice, and divination—and gain an understanding of the ways in which religion has responded to and influenced political and cultural change

Author: Joseph Adler
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: reference, quick, desktop, nutshell
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2009-12-23
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 059680170X
ISBN-13: 9780596801700

What people are saying about R in a Nutshell "I am excited about this book. R in a Nutshell is a great introduction to R, as well as a comprehensive reference for using R in data analytics and visualization. Adler provides ’real world’ examples, practical advice, and scripts, making it accessible to anyone working with data, not just professional statisticians." --Martin Schultz, Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science, Yale University "R in a Nutshell is an ideal book for getting started with R. Newcomers will find the fundamentals for performing statistical analysis and

Authors:Joseph Adler, William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: vol, tradition, chinese, sources
Number of Pages: 944
Published: 2000-03-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0231109393
ISBN-13: 9780231109390

A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introduction for general readers. Here at last is a completely revised and expanded edition of this classic sourcebook, compiled by noted China scholars Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. Updated to reflect recent scholarly developments, with extensive material on popular thought and religion, social roles, and women´s education, this edition fea

Authors:Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: context, interaction, power, social, deviance, constructions
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2005-04-21
List price: $102.95
ISBN-10: 0495003727
ISBN-13: 9780495003724

This text is the industry standard for publishing the most recent and relevant articles in the field of deviance, by demonstrating to students how the concepts and theories of deviance can be applied to the world around them. The authors include both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. The Adlers challenge the reader to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society by covering a wide variety of deviant acts represented throughout the text. Most importantly, the Adler and Adler present deviance as a co

Authors:Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: context, interaction, power, social, deviance, constructions
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2008-01-02
List price: $111.95
ISBN-10: 0495504297
ISBN-13: 9780495504290

Packed with the most recent and relevant articles in the field, CONSTRUCTIONS OF DEVIANCE: SOCIAL POWER, CONTEXT, AND INTERACTION, Sixth Edition, shows you how to apply the concepts and theories of deviance to the world around you. The text’s current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. Seasoned authors and award-winning professors, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler cover a wide variety of deviant acts--challenging you to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in so

Authors:Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler,
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: introductory, sociology, readings, contemporary, odyssey, sociological
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2009-01-07
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0495598143
ISBN-13: 9780495598145

SOCIOLOGICAL ODYSSEY: CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN INTRODUCTORY SOCIOLOGY, Third Edition, presents a variety of balanced articles that help bring sociology to life, and provides college students with several provocative questions in each section that are designed to assist classroom discussions, generate students’ interest in sociology, and place each issue discussed within a larger social context.