Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: inference, reasoning, models, causality
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-03-13
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521773628
ISBN-13: 9780521773621

Written by one of the pre-eminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory with significant applications in the fields of statistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, cognitive science, and the health and social sciences. Pearl presents a unified account of the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches to causation, and devises simple mathematical tools for analyzing the relationships between causal connections, stat

Author: Pearl Production
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: strategies, skills, amp, arts, englishlanguage, highinterest, language, english, level
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2005-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1562548395
ISBN-13: 9781562548391

Author: Nancy Pearl
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: mood, moment, interest, reading, recommended, crush, kids, teens, book
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1570615004
ISBN-13: 9781570615009

Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the seemingly endless choices for reading material for young people. What’s good, what’s trash, what’s going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America’s favorite librarian, has read widely in all the genres and happily points the way in Book Crush. Divided into three sections — Easy Books, Middle-Grade Readers, and Young Adult — Book Crush makes wonderful reading connections by theme, setting, voice, and ideas. For horse lovers, Pearl recalls the classics (Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague), but in a creative twist connect

Author: Matthew Pearl
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, shadow, poe
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-07-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812970128
ISBN-13: 9780812970128

“I present to you . . . the truth about this man’s death and my life.”Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe’s.As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances of Poe’s demise, he discovers

Author: Elliott M. Pearl
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: topology, problems, open
Number of Pages: 776
Published: 2007-05-04
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0444522085
ISBN-13: 9780444522085

This volume is a collection of surveys of research problems in topology and its applications. The topics covered include general topology, set-theoretic topology, continuum theory, topological algebra, dynamical systems, computational topology and functional analysis. * New surveys of research problems in topology* New perspectives on classic problems* Representative surveys of research groups from all around the world

Author: Pearl North
Publisher: Tor Teen
Keywords: libyrinth
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0765320967
ISBN-13: 9780765320964

In her debut novel, Pearl North takes readers centuries into the future, to a forgotten colony of Earth where technology masquerades as magic and wars are fought over books.Haly is a Libyrarian, one of a group of people dedicated to preserving and protecting the knowledge passed down from the Ancients and stored in the endless maze of books known as the Libyrinth. But Haly has a secret: The books speak to her. When the threat of the rival Eradicants drives her from her home, Haly learns that things are not all she thinks they are. Taken prisoner by the Eradicants, who believe the written word

Author: Pearl S. Buck
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: club, book, oprah, earth
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-09-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743272935
ISBN-13: 9780743272933

Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary peo