Author: Robert M. Grove
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: survey, methodology, series, costs, errors, wiley
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $112.50
ISBN-10: 0471678511
ISBN-13: 9780471678519

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "Survey Errors and Survey Costs is a well-written, well-presented, and highly readable text that should be on every error-conscious statistician’s bookshelf. Any courses that cover the theory and design of surveys should cert

Authors:Jack Grove, Robert Lavenberg,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: islands, galapagos, fishes
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0804722897
ISBN-13: 9780804722896

Standing in awe-inspiring isolation in the central eastern Pacific and harboring living organisms found nowhere else on Earth, the Galápagos Islands played a pivotal role in the development of the epochal theories of Charles Darwin. This book marks the culmination of icthyological research extending back to 1835, when Darwin was the first to collect fishes from the Galápagos. It thoroughly documents and illustrates the fishes of the Galápagos in the hope that the results will provide an identification guide for visitors to the Galápagos National Park, a comprehensive reference source for s

Author: G. R. Grove
Publisher: lulu.com
Keywords: spear, ash
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-06-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0557060702
ISBN-13: 9780557060702

"Elidyr Mwynfawr, King of Aeron, was a weak, greedy fool, and like many another such fool, he died of his folly. But because he was a King, in his dying he cost many better men their lives as well, and this was the way of it: for I, Gwernin Kyuarwyd, was there, and saw much of it myself, and the tale that I tell you is true

Author: A. Grove Day
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: stories, california
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0803265832
ISBN-13: 9780803265837

In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the rich literature of California. In a place that boasts so many claims to one’s attention, short fiction has flourished. Great California Stories trumpets the immense short story tradition developed by visitors like Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce but mostly by natives like Jack London and John Steinbeck. The twenty-one stories in this anthology go back to the oral traditio

Author: G. R. Grove
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: storyteller
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 143030524X
ISBN-13: 9781430305248

The year is 550 AD. In the east Justinian the Great rules over the remains of the Roman Empire; in Italy the Goths still hold Rome itself. In northern Europe tribes are on the march, and boundaries and alliances are changing with the seasons. In Britain King Arthur is dead, and he and his brief peace are passing into legend. And in the land which will one day be called Wales, a young man named Gwernin sets out on his summer circuit as a traveling storyteller, little knowing the adventures that lie ahead of him. Told in the true voice of a medieval storyteller, this novel

Author: G. R. Grove
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: hawk, flight
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-09-19
List price: $18.59
ISBN-10: 1430328517
ISBN-13: 9781430328513

Britain in the summer of 551 AD: The North is a tinderbox about to burst into flame, the Saxons are stirring again in the East, and Cynan Garwyn, Prince of Powys, is doing his best to foment war in the South. In the midst of this simmering chaos, two young bards - Gwernin Storyteller and his friend Neirin mab Dwywei, the Poet-Prince that some call "Taliesin’s Hawk" - are sent to the North by their master to investigate the rumors and do what they can to prevent a war. At least, that was their mission - but the two young men find plenty of other adventures along the way. Girls and beer, b

Author: Andrew S. Grove
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: survive, paranoid
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-10-02
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0385482582
ISBN-13: 9780385482585

Under Andy Grove’s leadership, Intel has become the world’s largest chipmaker, the fifth-most-admired company in America, and the seventh-most-profitable company among the Fortune 500. You don’t achieve rankings like these unless you have mastered a rare understanding of the art of business and an unusual way with its practice.Few CEOs can claim this level of consistent record-breaking success. Grove attributes much of this success to the philosophy and strategy he reveals in Only the Paranoid Survive--a book that is unique in leadership annals for offering a bold new busines